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Even as US President Donald Trump is pursuing a crackdown on illegal immigrants, a caravan of more than 1,000 migrants is making its way through Mexico towards the US-Mexico border to enter the United States illegally.
In one of the first decisions after Inauguration, Trump declared an emergency at the southern border with Mexico and deployed around 1,500 soldiers to tackle the flow of migrants through the border. There are reports that Trump is considering deploying as many as 10,000 soldiers to the border.
Thousands of people illegally enter the United States from Mexico after travelling for hundreds or even thousands of kilometres across Mexico and central America in large caravans. Trump has made crackdowns on such illegal entry into the United States central to his second term’s agenda.
Anibal Jose Arvelo, a 37-year-old Venezuelan man part of the caravan, told AFP that people “still hope to be able to enter the United States” despite Trump’s crackdown.
“We have decided to go to the border and get an answer. We still hope to be able to enter the United States,” said Arvelo.
“It’s a tough situation here. There’s no work in Tapachula (a city near the Guatemalan border),” said Omar Avila, a 25-year-old Venezuelan man, to the agency.
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View AllAvila said that his former wife and son have already entered the United States. He said his daughter died during the journey across the Darien jungle along the Columbia-Panama border.
As Mexico faces the heat from Trump over illegal immigration from its soil, President Claudia Sheinbaum has raised the possibility of regularising foreign migrants who are barred from entering the United States or repatriating those who are willing to return to their homeland, according to the agency.
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