The Washington Examiner reports that “nearly 3,000” migrants have abandoned the caravan in recent days, flouting their leaders’ suggestion that they resist accepting asylum and temporary work authorization in Mexico and press forward to the U.S. border.
“Mexico’s Interior and Foreign Ministries reported, as of Thursday, 2,934 people originally traveling to the U.S. have stopped and applied for asylum in Mexico,” the Examiner says. “Of those, 927 have canceled their asylum claim with the Mexican government and returned to Guatemala and Honduras, where the caravans originated, according to a government news release.”
Two departments of the Mexican government — the federal police and Mexico’s office of migrant services — are helping to take those who decide to cancel their request home, the Examiner reports, giving free rides back to the Guatemalan border to anyone who decides to abandon the caravan and return home. The rest of the immigrants are being processed through Mexico’s Department of Refugee Aid. – READ MORE