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2,000 Honduran Migrants Set Out for US Amid Pandemic

Associated Press

   CORINTO, HONDURAS - About 2,000 Honduran migrants hoping to reach the
   United States entered Guatemala on foot Thursday morning, testing the
   newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the coronavirus pandemic.

   Authorities had planned to register the migrants as they crossed and
   offer assistance to those willing to turn back, but the group crossed
   the official border at Corinto without registering, according to
   Guatemala immigration authorities. Outnumbered officials made no
   attempt to stop them.

   Before the crossing, Edwin Omar Molino, a 17-year-old from Cortes, said
   he wanted to leave Honduras because he couldn't find work. He blamed
   President Juan Orlando Hernández for running the country into the
   ground.

   "Even when you want to find a job, there aren't any. That's why we
   leave our country," Molino said.

   "There's the pandemic, and it scares me," he added. But he said he
   wouldn't be able to help his family get ahead without taking the risk.

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