New Salvadoran migrant caravan forms; hundreds wait at U.S.-Mexico border

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS NOVEMBER 18, 2018 / 1:31 PM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO

New Salvadoran migrant caravan forms; hundreds wait at U.S.-Mexico border

Nelson Renteria
4 MIN READ

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - At least 150 Salvadorans set off on Sunday from their impoverished Central American country in a U.S.-bound caravan, ignoring their likely rejection at the U.S.-Mexico border where a larger caravan of mostly Hondurans has been stalled for days.

Guarded by police officers, the men, women and children of the gathering caravan marched through San Salvador’s streets to Guatemala-bound buses, loaded with heavy backpacks, water and the knowledge of an arduous 2,700-mile (4,300-km) trek ahead to the U.S. border.

The group from El Salvador was at least the fourth caravan to set off since a first, large-scale mobilization in neighboring Honduras, which departed on Oct. 13 from the crime-wracked northern city of San Pedro Sula.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/new-salvadoran-migrant-caravan-forms-hundreds-wait-at-u-s-mexico-border-idUSKCN1NN0PR

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1. Interesting there are not many Mexicans in the caravan!

I think Mexico benefited from the NAFTA deal, which created many jobs.
Wonder why countries like El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala remain poor with violence.
The MS-13 people originate there.