Of the roughly 400 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, 228 have sought asylum in the U.S. – while many others decided to stay behind, Reuters reported. President Donald Trump has cited the caravan to illustrate what he called “weak & ineffective U.S. immigration laws." Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan arrival at the border “a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system." The asylum process can take months, sometimes years to complete, and applicants from Central America are often immediately detained, then eventually denied entry and deported, according to Reuters. Between 2011 and 2016, 75 percent of asylum-seekers from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been denied, FOX 5 reported, citing Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Source: Fox News May 05, 2018 08:15 UTC