Mexico starts giving caravan migrants transit visas

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Christopher Sherman, Associated Press
Updated 1:09 pm, Wednesday, April 4, 2018

MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican government began handing out transit or humanitarian visas to people in a caravan of Central American migrants, and said the procession of 1,000 or so migrants that drew criticism from President Donald Trump had begun to disperse.

Some migrants who awoke at the camp Wednesday said they would try their luck at requesting asylum in the United States, others in Mexico.

Elmer Zelaya Gomez, 38, from eastern El Salvador, has been sleeping with his wife and three children aged 7, 13 and 14 on the soccer field under blankets as they wait for temporary transit visas from Mexico to continue to the US border. He hopes to request asylum and join relatives in New York.

"We didn't leave our countries just because we wanted to," Zelaya Gomez said. "It's for the safety of our children."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Caravan-migrants-confused-by-President-Trump-s-12803817.php

[Leghorn21]

1. Feb. 2016:

He asked Mr Trump if he could "look children aged five, eight, ten, in the face and tell them they can't go to school here".

Mr Trump did not hesitate and said he could, which brought applause from the crowd.

He said: "I can look in their faces and say 'You can't come'. I'll look them in the face.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12147515/After-tomorrow-Donald-Trump-could-be-unstoppable.html

[marble falls]

2. Put it to him: on camera, of course.

[George II]

3. He can't even look a guy he's about to fire in the face. He's a gutless, hateful, racist coward.