[영상] Thousands of people going north through soldiers… “Biden immigration policy hopes”

Thousands of Honduras immigrants who wrestled with Guatemalan soldiers and police at the Guatemalan border on the 16th (local time) break through the blockade and run into Guatemala.[알자지라 유튜브]

“There is no choice, we are all dying here”

This is the story of 25-year-old Honduras youth Oscar Zaldiber. He worked as a driver in Copradia, a village in the northwest of Honduras. it started. He said again and again, “There is no way to live.”

About 3,000 caravans left this day. Minor Garcia, a 19-year-old worker, wore a purple backpack and left home with them. Garcia said, “The journey ahead is terrifying,” but “Hurricane destroyed all the houses, so we couldn’t live any more, so we were forced to risk it.”

Honduras immigrants hoping to go to the United States are entering Guatemala, pushing soldiers from the Guatemalan border. [AP=연합뉴스]

The people of Honduras, afflicted with violence, famine, infectious diseases and environmental disasters, are heading for the United States with their last hope on the Biden administration. The Honduras caravan, which was cut off due to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and President Donald Trump’s border strengthening policy, has started to move again.

According to AP News on the 16th, the Guatemalan government is wrestling with about 9,000 Honduras caravans on its southern border. The day before, 2,000 Guatemalan police and soldiers blocked their borders, but some caravans pushed them out in a struggle and crossed the border.

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammatei issued a statement to the authorities of Honduras, saying, “Please curb the mass escape of the residents.” In particular, Guatemalan authorities said that those who were not confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) all crossed the border into an emergency. President Giammatei urged, “The Guatemalan government should take measures to stop the invasion of national sovereignty by its citizens and to prevent the residents of Central America, which is in an emergency situation due to Corona 19, from endangering infectious diseases.”

The Honduras began to travel north in the mid-2000s to escape from drugs and violence in their country. In addition to Honduras, citizens of Central American countries such as El Salvador and Guatemala, which have the highest homicide rates in the world, also form a group of caravans and depart for the North.

A group of Honduras caravans traveling north along a highway in Guatemala on the 16th. [AP=연합뉴스]

Traveling from Honduras to the United States requires crossing Mexico via Guatemala to travel by foot or by car. Migrants generally do not get to the United States and are disbanded after securing refugee status in Mexico. Since then, immigrants who want to enter the United States have attempted to enter the border individually.

This Honduras caravan hopes to reach the United States. This is because the Biden administration expects to overturn Trump’s border management policy and pass an immigration reform bill. Miguel Angel, a man interviewed by AFP, walked to the border and said, “I have chosen a lot of Latino figures in the US administration. Biden is a good man.”

Fox News also said that a group of caravans are heading north with hopes of the Biden administration’s pledge. Shortly after taking office on the 20th, Biden said he would submit an immigration reform bill to the federal legislature to rescue illegal immigrants in the United States. As the Democratic Party took the lead in both the US Senate and House of Representatives, local forecasts that a new immigration reform bill will be passed in about 20 years.

The AP also reported that the Hondurans, exhausted from the famine, left their home with a rosy hope that if they reached the US border, they would receive warmer hospitality than before. They are leaving unsure how far they will go, but the governments of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras are intensifying their move to stop their North Korea.

Guatemalan troops are stepping up their defensive stance near a crowd of Honduras caravans.[AFP=연합뉴스]

The International Red Cross made a statement on the 15th and called for humanitarian assistance, saying, “Corona 19, social interception, violence, and climate disasters occurred simultaneously on a large scale that was rarely seen.”

Reporter Jeong Eun-hye [email protected]