Scores deported as Mexico beats back Honduran migrant march to the US
Migrants -mostly Hondurans- taking part in a caravan heading to the US, queue for food as they begin their day at a temporary shelter in Juchitan, Oaxaca State, Mexico, on October 31, 2018. The US has deployed thousands of troops along its border with Mexico to stem the tide of migrants headed towards the North American nation. PHOTO | GUILLERMO ARIAS |
Scores were arrested after hundreds forced their way through a Mexican police blockade and headed for the United States.
The around 500 men, women and children were part of a 5,000-strong caravan made up of mainly Honduran migrants.
The group was stopped by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and US Border Patrol agents firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen accused the migrants of seeking to harm US border patrol personnel
Trump threatened a permanent closure of the frontier, and defended the use of tear gas by US border patrol.
Trump has deployed nearly 6,000 troops to the border, on top of more than 2,000 members of the National Guard.
Mexico deported scores of Central American migrants arrested after hundreds forced their way through a Mexican police blockade and headed for the United States but were met with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Around 500 men, women and children, part of a caravan of roughly 5,000 mainly Hondurans who have been trekking toward the US for weeks, scrambled over a rusted metal fence and surged into a concrete riverbed toward San Diego on Sunday.
