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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

From One Caravan to Another

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Mary Harris is joined by Vox’s Dara Lind to discuss how the latest caravan from Honduras is shining a light on the danger and red tape facing asylum seekers. Plus, what else did you miss today? We’ll be piloting What Next in public for the next several weeks. Tell us what you think: whatnext@slate.com. ' Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/whatnextpus. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show, our weekend reading lists, and our occasional posts about pita chips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right now, a group of hundreds of migrants is making its way from Honduras through Guatemala

0:06.5

towards the United States.

0:07.8

They're traveling on foot, putting miles between themselves and a country that's become

0:15.0

especially dangerous.

0:16.7

It is one of the highest murder rates in the world.

0:19.5

Well, down this is a caravan made up of mothers and children, family, all saying that they

0:24.6

are escaping violence and poverty.

0:28.2

The people on this march are leaving behind difficult lives for sure.

0:32.3

But this event, it feels political, too.

0:35.6

Journalists are invited along.

0:37.3

They're tweeting out messages from the road.

0:39.9

12-year-old Mario told a Guatemalan news site, he's left his mother behind and he's

0:43.9

traveling solo.

0:45.9

Mario, it's you who's going to travel alone.

0:50.5

Solo.

0:51.5

And why?

0:53.6

A young woman balancing a toddler on her lap said she's fleeing domestic violence.

0:58.3

Police couldn't protect her from it.

1:00.9

When this group walks through a village, they take it over.

1:03.9

They fill the street.

1:05.3

Some estimate there are 3,000 people in this group now.

1:13.0

If they reach the U.S., many of these people seem likely to be asking for the same thing,

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