Guatemala cracks down on US-bound migrant caravan

Guatemalan authorities on Saturday escalated efforts to stop thousands of Hondurans, many of them families with children, traveling in a migrant caravan bound for the United States. Between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants have entered Guatemala since Friday, according to Guatemala's immigration authority, fleeing poverty and violence in a region battered by the pandemic and back-to-back hurricanes in November. Officials in Guatemala said they have prevented most of the caravan. The caravan's next destination is Mexico. Mexico's migration accord with the United States still holds, so the caravan would be dispersed, a Mexican official said.