WATCH: Pompeo's Message for 'Caravan' Should Make Them Turn Back Right Now
When it comes to the migrant “caravan” making its way through Mexico to the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is not playing around.
He has a strong statement for all those taking part.
In short: it’s time to turn back.
WATCH:
.@SecPompeo: The U.S. has a message for those in the caravan—you will not be successful at getting into the United States illegally, no matter what. pic.twitter.com/TuNfY05CmP
— Department of State (@StateDept) October 23, 2018
Pompeo: You will not be successful at getting into the United States illegally, no matter what. I repeat the caravan will not cross our southern border illegally under any circumstances. …I can tell you with certainty that we are determined that illegal entry into the United States from this caravan will not be possible.
Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton said there are, in fact, gang members with “significant criminal histories” embedded within the caravan.
.@DHSgov can confirm that there are individuals within the caravan who are gang members or have significant criminal histories.
— DHS Spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) October 23, 2018
Citizens of countries outside Central America, including countries in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere are currently traveling through Mexico toward the U.S.
— DHS Spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) October 23, 2018
Stopping the caravan is not just about national security or preventing crime, it is also about national sovereignty and the rule of law. Those who seek to come to America must do so the right and legal way.
— DHS Spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) October 23, 2018
New details suggest the original caravan of Honduran migrants heading through Mexico has grown to 5,000 people (and potentially even 10,000), creating a line “two miles long.”
Mexican police have reportedly stood down.
Now, it is being learned that a second caravan is making its way to America, 2,000 migrants strong.
This second group approached Chiquimula, Guatemala on Sunday.
Here are some videos:
Fila de hondureños en Chiquimula #CaravanaMigrantes #CaravanaDeMigrantes pic.twitter.com/35d7G3YZ3e
— Luis Assardo (@luisassardo) October 21, 2018
#EUCrisisMigratoria | El grupo de migrantes hondureños caminan hacia Quezaltepeque, #Chiquimula.
Vía: Oscar Castañeda y Ovideo Sanic pic.twitter.com/uyrhbkpPVn
— Emisoras Unidas (@EmisorasUnidas) October 21, 2018
Al rededor de 2000 migrantes hondureños van camino a Chiquimula, a éstos se suman guatemaltecos, ésta crisis migratoria se intensifica.
En CUNORI se va abrir un centro de acopio. Necesitamos apoyo humano y material 🙏🏼 #CaravanaMigrante #SomosHumanos pic.twitter.com/XfjqwQJo4l— Jesus Alberto Valdez Godoy (@jesusvgod) October 21, 2018
Here’s an interview with some of the “new” migrants:
https://www.facebook.com/esquipulasoficial/videos/319156828916029/
Regarding the original caravan, per Daily Wire:
Hundreds of Central American migrants scrambled over a bridge wall and jumped into a river below as they battled to get past authorities stopping them at the Guatemala-Mexico border.
The mob swelled to at least 5,000 people — some estimates go as high as 10,000 — and once past police dressed in riot gear, they resumed their trek to the U.S.-Mexico border. The throng is currently marching toward the Mexican town of Tapachula, “10 abreast in a line stretching approximately a mile,” the Associated Press reported.
At the Suchiate River, some 700 federal police officers from Mexico made no attempt to intervene as hundreds of young men dropped off the bridge into the water, then swam, floated or rafted to Mexico. They are still nearly 1,800 miles from El Paso, Texas, and Google Maps says that would take 573 hours on foot.
The caravan just swept past a large contingent of Mexican federal police, who didn’t do anything to stop them.
— Kate Linthicum (@katelinthicum) October 21, 2018
A group of immigration agents stopped the caravan to ask them to apply for asylum in Mexico. The caravan blew past them.
— Kate Linthicum (@katelinthicum) October 21, 2018
The caravan is more than two miles long. People near the end are stumbling. It’s 23 miles to Tapachula and it’s so hot — 90 degrees — today.
— Kate Linthicum (@katelinthicum) October 21, 2018
Mexican police under orders to block the caravan, are massed in the only road heading north from the border. pic.twitter.com/TbxXzVktUb
— Kate Linthicum (@katelinthicum) October 21, 2018
I’m only just realizing the massive scale of this caravan as they march north into Mexico. It’s several thousand people. Just look. pic.twitter.com/aRuoLNYTZg
— Kate Linthicum (@katelinthicum) October 21, 2018