Hundreds of Honduran nationals have reportedly formed a migrant caravan bound for the United States.
The group of migrants, mostly young in age, left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and is headed toward the Guatemalan border after calls spread on social media to organize a caravan for the U.S., according to Reuters.
Honduras was recently ravaged by two hurricanes in a two-week span that destroyed homes, ruined crops, and killed about 100 people.
“We lost everything. We have no choice but to go to the United States,” an unidentified middle-aged man traveling in the caravan with his wife and cousin told a Honduran reporter.
In 2018, multiple caravans traveled from Central America, including a caravan of 1,300 people from Honduras, to the southern border of the U.S. despite strong objections from President Trump.
“I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country,” Trump tweeted at the time. “It’s a disgrace. We are the only Country in the World so Naive! WALL.”
Some of the caravan members ended up applying for asylum in the U.S., and some entered the country illegally. Others chose to stay in Mexico or return home.
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to have a “fair and humane” immigration system and is believed to be set to reverse many, if not all, of Trump’s executive orders on immigration.
