Name: Guatemala blocks thousands of people bound for US - BBC News
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police in Guatemala have fired tear gas at a group of migrants from Honduras who are heading for the United States.

Between seven and 8000 people, including families and young Children, have entered Guatemala since Friday.

Central America correspondent will grant reports Once again, Central America's poorest and most vulnerable are met by the full might of the region's security forces.

Between six and 9000 migrants fleeing a dire combination of poverty, drug gang violence in hurricane damage have been received in Guatemala by batons, riot shields and tear gas.

Mullah department is the caravan of migrants pushed north in an effort to first reach Mexico on then the United States mother they they set off several days ago from San Pedro Sula in Honduras.

Ah hastily organized group of men, women and Children exhausted after their crops and livelihoods were destroyed by hurricanes, ETA and Iota in November.

Already they've progressed further than most recent Migrant caravans haven't managed to leave the borders of Honduras, but over the weekend this group made it into neighboring Guatemala.

However, the Trump administration has placed huge pressure on regional governments to clamp down hard on migrant caravans.

And although the group crossed the border, the Guatemalan military have little intention of letting them past way were informed last night, the elements of the Honduran Maris gangs and organized crime had infiltrated the group.

This worried us, but fortunately, the law enforcement officers had a conventions plan for these cases and controlled this.

It was a battle for those determined to continue.

This is what awaits them in Mexico, on the other side of the Sukiyaki River, the border with Central America, a huge deployment of National Guard has been sent to ensure this latest caravan gets no further.

With the Trump administration just days away from leaving office, this group of weary, poor immigrants is a powerful symbol of one of the priorities which his successor, Joe Biden, must address.

 The reality is, however, that the incoming Biden administration appears no more likely to ease their passage across the border. 