How can Denis Omar Contreras know that? Is there something that would make it impossible for jihadis to infiltrate this migrant group?
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“‘No terrorists’ in migrant caravan bound for US, group leader says,” News Corp Australia Network, October 23, 2018:
A HONDURAN-born leader of the migrant caravan trying to make its way through Mexico says US President Donald Trump should stop accusing the caravan of harbouring terrorists.
Denis Omar Contreras said, “There isn’t a single terrorist here.”
He said on Monday all of those involved are from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. And, he added, “As far as I know there are no terrorists in these four countries, at least beyond the corrupt governments.”
It follows comments by Mr Trump that people who mean harm to the US are in the group.
Overnight he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in.”
At a political rally on Friday, Mr Trump claimed the group was made up of “bad people,” “criminals,” “not little angels,” and “tough, tough people.”
He also said the US will begin “cutting off, or substantially reducing” aid to three Central American nations over a migrant caravan heading to the U.S. southern border.
Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador combined received more than $500 million in funding from the US in fiscal year 2017.
Thousands of Honduran migrants hoping to reach the US have stretched out on rain-soaked sidewalks, benches and public plazas in the southern Mexico City of Tapachula, worn down by another day’s march under a blazing sun. They’ve been keeping together for strength and safety in numbers.
Some huddled under a metal roof in the city’s main plaza Sunday night. Others lay exhausted in the open air, with only thin sheets of plastic to protect them from ground soggy from an intense evening shower. Some didn’t even have a bit of plastic yet.
A team of AP journalists travelling with the caravan for more than a week has spoken with Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans, but has not met any Middle Easterners of the sort Trump suggested were “mixed in” with the Central American migrants….