Migrant Caravan Refuses Mexican Offer of Refugee Status
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🗓️ 27 October 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Migrant Caravan Refuses Mexican Offer of Refugee Status and insist on making their way to the US.
This will present an issue for democrats entering the mid term as Trump has rallied around the idea of border security and the wall in response to thousands of migrants making their way to the US border.
The latest news is that a section of "the wall" is completed near Calexico and a debate rages as to whether or not its a wall or a fence. But semantics aside a barrier is being constructed and we are entering a heated debate about immigration in this country.
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| 0:00.0 | The migrant caravan from Honduras is growing and slowly making its way to the United States. |
| 0:05.6 | It is not likely they're going to make it here before the midterm elections, but many people are |
| 0:10.0 | still talking about it and they're wondering if there's such violence in Honduras. Why don't they |
| 0:15.0 | stay in Guatemala? Why don't they stay in Mexico? In a previous video I covered that Mexico had actually |
| 0:20.3 | received applications for asylum from many of these people, so some of them actually do want to stay. |
| 0:25.2 | But as the caravan grows larger, people wonder why not stay in Mexico, where they already are. |
| 0:31.5 | In fact, Mexico has offered benefits and status to many of the people who are traveling through |
| 0:37.4 | Mexico so long as they follow its laws, but it's no surprise many of them have rejected the offer. |
| 0:43.3 | CBS News reporting that they've actually rejected it and want to go to the US instead. |
| 0:47.7 | At the same time, we're seeing that a section of Trump's border wall has been completed. |
| 0:52.9 | Only now there's a debate over whether or not it's a fence or a wall and why it's actually |
| 0:58.4 | segmented and we'll talk about that. So we've got a couple stories to go through, kind of intersecting. |
| 1:02.9 | The migrant caravan, why they're rejecting Mexico's offer and what's going on with Trump's wall. |
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| 1:21.6 | From CBS News, migrant caravan members reject offer to stay in Mexico. |
| 1:25.7 | Quote, no, we're heading north. |
| 1:28.0 | Aureaga, Mexico several thousand Central American migrants turned down a Mexican offer of benefits. |
| 1:33.9 | If they applied for refugee status and stayed in the country's two southernmost states, |
| 1:38.1 | vowing to set out before dawn Saturday to continue their long trek toward the US border. |
| 1:42.2 | Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced what he called the quote, |
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