The large number of Central Americans “arriving at our border in recent months shows that the Trump administration’s harsh and even unlawful policies to stop asylum-seekers and migrants aren’t working,' Maureen Meyer of WOLA said.
A group of nearly 1,000 Hondurans have gathered in the city of San Pedro Sula to start a journey toward the United States.
Honduran migrants leave the Metropolitan Center of San Pedro Sula, north of Tegucigalpa, to travel to the Guatemala border on April 10 ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images Leading Republicans have pushed back against Trump’s threats to shut down the border however, pointing out that such a move would undoubtedly have negative economic consequences. “Closing legal points of entry would harm American commerce and legal transit between Mexico and the United States, and leave coyotes and human traffickers to roam free in the wilderness of our unsecured border,” GOP Senator Ted Cruz from Texas said last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has noted a spike in migrants attempting to enter the country over the past few months. But even with the significant increase, the numbers are still far lower than they were a decade ago.
“People will continue to flee endemic violence and harsh poverty until they feel that they can be safe in their home countries and are able to feed themselves and their families,” she pointed out.
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