The first of hundreds of Honduran migrants hoping to reach the
United States arrived at the Guatemala border on foot Thursday morning, testing the newly reopened frontier that had been shut by the
Coronavirus pandemic.
Edwin Omar Molino, a 17-year-old from Cortes, said he was leaving Honduras because he couldn’t find work.
Central
American migrants began traveling in large groups in recent years, seeking safety in numbers and in some cases avoiding the cost of smugglers.