Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula and later crossed the Guatemala border in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. AdvertisementFarther along toward the Guatemalan capital in the town of Morales, national police were checking migrants’ documents at a roadblock. Associated Press journalists saw about 20 Honduran migrants put on a police vehicle to be driven back to the border because they had not registered with immigration officials there. Giammattei said travel agreements between Central American nations required Guatemala to grant the migrants passage. AdvertisementThe U.S. has used a carrot-and-stick approach in bilateral agreements struck since July with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to deny people an opportunity to apply for asylum in the U.S.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 16, 2020 01:52 UTC