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WASHINGTON/POLITICS The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com 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. 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