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Sunday, October 28, 2018 7A
Mexico tom between stopping,
aiding Central American caravan
REBECCA BLACKWELL I Associated Press
Mexican federal police in riot gear block the highway to keep a thousands-
strong caravan of Central American migrants from advancing on their way to
the U.S. border, outside Arriaga, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 27.
BY CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Associated Press
TAPANATEPEC, Mexico — The
Mexican government seems torn
between stopping several thousand
Central American migrants from
traveling toward the U.S. border in a
caravan or burnishing its international
human rights image.
On Saturday, more than a hundred
federal police dressed in riot gear
blocked a rural highway in southern
Mexico shortly before dawn to encour
age the migrants to apply for refugee
status in Mexico rather than continuing
the long, arduous journey north. U.S.
President Donald Trump has urged
Mexico to prevent the caravan from
reaching the border.
Police let the caravan proceed after
representatives from Mexico’s National
Human Rights Commission convinced
them that a rural stretch of highway
without shade, toilets or water was no
place for migrants to entertain an offer
of asylum. Many members of the cara
van have been travelling for more than
two weeks, since a group first formed in
San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Not long after the caravan resumed
the trek north Saturday, government
officials were seen for the first time
directly helping the migrants by giv
ing rides in trucks and providing water
along the scorching highway.
Martin Rojas, an agent from Mexico’s
migrant protection agency Grupo Beta,
said he and his fellow agents planned to
use agency pickup trucks to help strag
glers catch up with the caravan.
“There are people fainting, there are
wounded,” said Rojas, who spoke to
The Associated Press after dropping off
a group of women and children in Tap-
anatepec, where the caravan planned
to spend the night. Rojas transported
the group to their destination after
spotting them on a highway trudging
through temperatures approaching 104
degrees Fahrenheit.
Most of the migrants in the caravan
appeared determined to reach the U.S.,
despite an offer of refuge in Mexico.
Mexican President Enrique Pena
Nieto launched a program on Friday
dubbed “You are home,” which prom
ises shelter, medical attention, school
ing and jobs to Central Americans who
agree to stay in the southern Mexico
states of Chiapas or Oaxaca, far from
the U.S. border.
Mexico’s Interior Ministry said that
temporary identity numbers have been
issued to 111 migrants under the pro
gram. The IDs, called CURPs, autho
rize the migrants to stay and work in
Mexican President
Enrique Pena Nieto
launched a program
which promises shelter,
medical attention,
schooling and jobs to
those who agree to stay in
southern Mexico states.
Mexico, and the ministry said pregnant
women, children and the elderly were
among those who had joined the pro
gram and were now being attended at
shelters.
After another brutally hot day on the
road with her husband and 8-year-old
son, Alejandra Rodriguez said the pos
sibility of health care and a work per
mit in Mexico sounded enticing. But as
she laid out a tarp and blanket to sleep
in a covered parking area in Tapanate-
pec, the 26-year-old from Tegucigalpa,
Honduras said she’d prefer to start a
new life further north. She had heard
that job opportunities were scarce in
southern Mexico.
Orbelina Orellana said she and her
husband were determined to continue
north as well.
“Our destiny is to get to the border,”
said Orellana, who left three children
behind in San Pedro Sula. She was also
suspicious of the Mexican proposal,
fearing that she would be deported if
she applies for asylum in Mexico.
Mexican officials have greeted the
caravan with a mixture of hospitality
and hostility.
Several mayors have rolled out
the welcome mat for migrants who
reached their towns — arranging for
food and camp sites. At other times,
police have ejected migrants from
passenger buses or prevented smaller
groups from joining the caravan.
An official with the national immi
gration authority said Friday that 300
Hondurans and Guatemalans who
crossed the Mexico border illegally had
been detained. The group was walking
in broad daylight, far from the main
caravan.
The caravan still must travel 1,000
miles to reach the nearest U.S. border
crossing at McAllen, Texas. The trip
could be twice as long if the 4,000 or
so migrants head for the Tijuana-San
Diego frontier, as another caravan did
earlier this year. Only about 200 in that
group made it to the border.
This year’s caravans have earned the
ire of Trump. The Pentagon approved
a request for additional troops at the
southern border, likely to total several
hundred, to help the U.S. Border Patrol
as the president seeks to transform
concerns about immigration and the
caravan into electoral gains in the Nov.
6 midterms.
Stoking fears about the caravan and
illegal immigration to rally his Repub
lican base, Trump insinuated that gang
members and “Middle Easterners”
are mixed in with the group, though he
later acknowledged there was no proof
of that.
VAHID SALEMII Associated Press
An exchange shop displays rates for various currencies Oct.
2 in downtown Tehran, Iran.
Donald Trump faces
complaints that Iran
sanctions too weak
BY MATTHEW LEE AND
SUSANNAH GEORGE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A bat
tle is brewing between the
Trump administration and
some of the president’s big
gest supporters in Congress
who are concerned that
sanctions to be re-imposed
on Iran early next month
won’t be tough enough.
As President Donald
Trump prepares to re
impose a second batch of
Iran sanctions that had
been eased under the 2015
nuclear deal, conserva
tive lawmakers and outside
advisers have become wor
ried that the administration
may break a promise to
exert “maximum pressure”
on Iran. They are angered by
suggestions that measures to
be announced Nov. 5 won’t
include a provision cutting
Iran off from a key compo
nent of the global financial
system.
The self-described Iran
hawks are concerned enough
that they have drafted legis
lation that would require the
administration to demand
that Iran be suspended from
the international bank trans
fer system known as SWIFT.
“The president asked for
maximum pressure, not
semi-maximum pressure,”
said Richard Goldberg, a
former aide to a Repub
lican senator and senior
adviser to the Foundation
for the Defense of Democra
cies, a group that supports
punishing Iran with sanc
tions. “Maximum pressure
includes disconnecting Ira
nian banks from SWIFT.”
Trump pledged Thursday
to do whatever it takes to
pressure Iran to halt what he
refers to as its “malign con
duct” such as nuclear and
missile development and
support for terrorism and
groups that destabilize the
Middle East.
“On Nov. 5th, all U.S. sanc
tions against Iran lifted by
the nuclear deal will be back
in full force,” he told a gath
ering at the White House to
commemorate the 35th anni
versary of the 1983 attack on
the Marine Corps barracks
in Beirut, Lebanon, which is
blamed on Iranian-backed
extremists. “And they will be
followed up with even more
sanctions to address the full
range of Iran’s malign con
duct. We will not allow the
world’s leading sponsor of
terror to develop the world’s
deadliest weapons. Will not
happen.”
The Nov. 5 sanctions
cover Iran’s banking and
energy sectors and will rein
state penalties for countries
and companies in Europe,
Asia and elsewhere that do
not halt Iranian oil imports.
They could also include
measures to force Iran out of
SWIFT.
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