USA WARNS
US warns migrant 'caravan' against trying
to enter
"If you enter our country illegally, you have broken the law
and will be referred for prosecution," DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
said.
Washington (AFP) – The Department of Homeland Security issued a
stark warning Wednesday to the first 120 who arrived, including some 50 minors.
The US has threatened to arrest around 100 Central American
migrants if they try to sneak in from the US-Mexico border where they have
gathered, prompting President Donald Trump to order troop reinforcements on the
frontier.
Two
busloads of migrants arrived Tuesday in the border city of Mexicali -- which
sits opposite Calexico, California -- and paused for a rest stop before
continuing on to Tijuana.
They are
part of a caravan of more than 1,000 people who set out from Mexico's southern
border on March 25.
Media
coverage of the caravan triggered a flurry of furious tweets from Trump, who
ordered thousands of National Guard troops to the border and called on Mexico
to stop the migrants.
As the
issue exploded into a diplomatic row, organizers of the caravan quietly broke
it up.
