Page 12 - ARUBA TODAY

A12 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 24 april 2018

Remnants of Mexico migrant caravan closer to U.S. border

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The tweeted. In response,
remnants of a caravan of Mexico’s Secretary of For-
Central American migrants eign Affairs Luis Videgaray
protested in northern Mex- tweeted, “It would be un-
ico on Monday, even as acceptable to condition
once again they drew an- the NAFTA negotiations on
gry tweets from U.S. Presi- immigration actions that
dent Donald Trump. are outside that frame-
The mainly Central Ameri- work.” “Mexico decides its
can migrants are demand- own immigration policy in
ing better treatment and a sovereign manner, and
many are planning to re- Mexico’s cooperation on
quest asylum, either in the immigration matters with
United States or Mexico. the United States occurs
“We are asking the govern- because Mexico considers
ment and migration au- it in its own interest,” Vide-
thorities to respect the right garay wrote.
to seek asylum,” said cara- Many of the migrants say
van organizer Irineo Mujica. they are fleeing gang vio-
“Those who request asylum lence and extortion in Hon-
shouldn’t be criminalized. It duras and El Salvador.
is a right ... families shouldn’t The U.S. government
be separated or punished.” “should be more under-
The approximately 600 standing of the women Central American migrants traveling with the annual migrant Stations of the Cross caravan march
migrants arrived in the and children in this caravan for migrants’ rights and protest the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, in Hermosillo, Mexico,
northern city of Hermosil- ... and the dangers they Monday, April 23, 2018. Associated Press
lo aboard trains over the face in their countries,”
weekend. Mujica has said Mujica said. U.S. Attorney most generous immigra- the ‘caravan’ enter the Department in “taking a
the migrants plan to arrive General Jeff Sessions said tion system in the world, but country illegally, they will be number of steps to ensure
in Tijuana later this week. Monday that he told his this is a deliberate attempt referred for prosecution for that all cases and claims
Trump tweeted Monday offices in border states to to undermine our laws and illegal entry in accordance are adjudicated promptly
that “I have instructed the “take whatever immedi- overwhelm our system,” with existing law,” Nielsen - including sending addi-
Secretary of Homeland Se- ate action to ensure that Sessions said. said in a statement. “For tional USCIS asylum officers,
curity not to let these large we have sufficient prosecu- U.S. Homeland Security those seeking asylum, all in- ICE attorneys, DOJ Immi-
Caravans of people into tors available” and that Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen dividuals may be detained gration Judges, and DOJ
our Country.” he may transfer immigra- said Monday that “DHS while their claims are ad- prosecutors to the Southern
“Mexico, whose laws on im- tion judges to the border. continues to monitor the judicated efficiently and border.” “DHS encourag-
migration are very tough, He said caravan members remnants of the ‘caravan’ expeditiously, and those es persons with asylum or
must stop people from go- have ignored the Mexican of individuals headed to found not to have a claim other similar claims to seek
ing through Mexico and government’s willingness to our Southern border with will be promptly removed protections in the first safe
into the U.S. We may make let them stay in Mexico. the apparent intention of from the United States.” country they enter, includ-
this a condition of the new “Let today’s message be entering the United States She said her agency was ing Mexico,” the statement
NAFTA Agreement,” Trump clear: Our nation has the illegally.” “If members of working with the Justice said.q

Organizers: Basque event next month to bring lasting peace

BAYONNE, France (AP) and lasting peace.” nal one year ago.
— Basque civil society “We believe this event will Its dissolution will mark the
groups and international be primordial in advanc- end of one of Europe’s
observers said that there ing the definitive peace last violent nationalist con-
will be an event next process,” Kendall said. flicts.
month in southern France Basque media reported Police put hundreds of ETA
that will be key to ending last week that ETA would members behind bars be-
the Basque conflict. announce that it was dis- fore it stopped killing.
Organizers had said that banding the first weekend Spanish Prime Minister
“important elements for in May. That was followed Mariano Rajoy said earlier
the process of demobili- by ETA taking the unprec- Monday that ETA’s crimes
zation” of ETA would be edented step of apologiz- wouldn’t go unpunished
announced at their news ing for some— although just because they dis-
conference in Bayonne, not all— of the more than band.
but they refrained from 800 killings it perpetrated “ETA must disappear be-
mentioning the Basque over four decades as part cause that is the only op-
separatist militant group of its struggle for indepen- tion remaining after being
on Monday. dence for the Basque re- defeated by the police,”
Observer Raymond Kend- Raymond Kendall, Honorary secretary general of Interpol, gions of Spain and France. Rajoy told newspaper Ul-
centre, delivers a speech during a press conference in Bayonne,
all, former Interpol general southwestern France, to announce an international event to ETA, which the Spanish tima Hora Mallorca.
secretary, said the May advance the resolution of the conflict in the Basque country on government considers a “And in no case will their
4 meeting in the French May 4 in Cambo les Bains, southwestern France. terrorist organization, gave crimes disappear, nor the
town Cambo-les-Bains Associated Press up its armed campaign in responsibility for having
near the Spanish border will aim “to lay a new stone on the path of a just 2011 and got rid of its arse- committed them.”q