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Guatemalan Forces Clear Sit-In of Honduran Migrants

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   Guatemalan forces used tear gas and batons Monday to break up a group
   of Honduran migrants near the border who were hoping to travel to the
   United States.

   Roughly 2,000 migrants had camped out at a roadblock on the two-lane
   highway to Chiquimula near the village of Vado Hondo for nearly two
   days. Some threw stones at Guatemalan forces that were attempting to
   disperse the crowd, prompting them to use tear gas and batons.

   Guatemalan authorities reported that the road was once again open to
   traffic Monday, but most migrants remained on Guatemalan soil.

   Some Hondurans have reportedly agreed to be bused back across the
   border, diminishing the group of nearly 8,000 attempting to travel to
   the United States.

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