{"id":358224,"date":"2018-04-24T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-central-american-migrant-invasion-caravan-is-nearing-the-us-border\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:00:54","slug":"the-central-american-migrant-invasion-caravan-is-nearing-the-us-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-central-american-migrant-invasion-caravan-is-nearing-the-us-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central American Migrant Invasion Caravan Is Nearing the US Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A\u00a0migrant caravan that began its journey\u00a0through Mexico a month ago is nearing the US border, where its arrival will set up a confrontation between the Trump administration&#8217;s anti-immigration policies and US laws that require the United States to grant asylum to people with valid persecution claims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S. We may make this a condition of the new NAFTA Agreement. Our Country cannot accept what is happening! Also, we must get Wall funding fast.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/988415011382091776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A group of women and children from the migrant caravan are expected to arrive in Mexicali, on the Mexican side of the US border, sometime Tuesday after an overnight bus trip from Hermosillo, in Mexico&#8217;s Sonora state.<\/p>\n<p>While media attention to the caravan has dropped in recent weeks, the Trump administration has been keeping a watchful eye on the caravan&#8217;s progress. Kirstjen Nielsen, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said Monday that her agency was monitoring &#8220;the remnants&#8221; of the caravan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf members of the \u2018caravan\u2019 enter the country illegally, they will be referred for prosecution for illegal entry in accordance with existing law,&#8221; Nielsen said in a statement. &#8220;For those seeking asylum, all individuals may be detained while their claims are adjudicated efficiently and expeditiously, and those found not to have a claim will be promptly removed from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/the-central-american-migrant-invasion-caravan-is-nearing-the-us-border\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0migrant caravan that began its journey\u00a0through Mexico a month ago is nearing the US border, where its arrival will set up a confrontation between the Trump administration&#8217;s anti-immigration policies and US laws that require the United States to grant asylum to people with valid persecution claims. Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}