Mexican President Warns 'Caravan'; UN Spokesman Mum on How Officials Should Respond to Invasion of Mexico
(CNSNews.com) – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Monday warned Central American migrants who entered Mexico illegally in recent days as part of a U.S.-bound “caravan†that they were unlikely to achieve either the goal of staying in Mexico or of entering the United States.
Peña Nieto addressed his remarks to those “caravan†participants who chose not to enter Mexican territory legally. While hundreds took the offered opportunity to apply for asylum, others overwhelmed unarmed Mexican police at the Mexico-Guatemala border bridge crossing or swam, waded or rafted across the Suchiate river.
A U.N. spokesman on Monday put the estimated size of the swelling column of people making their way through southern Mexico at “some 7,233 persons.â€
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