Honduran migrant caravan crosses Guatemala border, US-bound
(WorldNews Politics)

ESQUIPULAS, GUATEMALA — A caravan of hundreds of Honduran migrants surged over the Guatemalan border under a broiling sun Monday hoping to make it to new lives in the United States, far from the poverty and violence of their home nation. Police stopped the migrants at a roadblock outside Esquipulas for several hours in the afternoon, but the travelers refused to return to the border and were eventually allowed to pass. Singing the Honduran national anthem, praying and chanting, `Yes, we can,` the group estimated at 1,600 or more had earlier defied an order by the Guatemalan government that they not be allowed to pass. `We have rights,` the migrants shouted. Keilin Umana, a...