Mexico-United States Border: DHS Says 'Absolutely Zero Chance' for the Latest Caravan as the State Department Targets Organizers
'Mexico-United States border' is a top-ten search in America because Washington is moving on two tracks at once: DHS says a caravan of more than 600 people moving north through southern Mexico has 'absolutely zero chance' of entering, and the State Department is imposing visa restrictions on more than 15 alleged caravan organizers.
HOUSTON - The latest migrant caravan moving through southern Mexico will not be allowed into the United States, the Department of Homeland Security says - in its words, there is 'absolutely zero chance.' As of late October, a caravan of more than 600 migrants, mostly from Honduras, was moving north through southern Mexico after leaving Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border, on October 20, the Epoch Times reported. DHS said the group, which includes young men and families with children, some pushing baby strollers, would not be allowed to cross, and that anyone attempting to enter illegally would be apprehended, prosecuted and removed. 'We will protect our borders - America is a nation, not an economic zone,' the department said.
The second track runs through the State Department. In the past week it has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on more than 15 people allegedly involved in planning or promoting recent caravans, spokesman Thomas Pigott said - people who allegedly recruited, coordinated and directed large groups traveling through Central America and Mexico toward the United States with the intention of illegally entering. Organizers and participants who hold a visa or apply for one face additional scrutiny, and the department said action could include refusing or revoking visas. The department has not disclosed the names, nationalities or locations of those targeted, or which caravans they were allegedly connected to.
The restrictions rest on a policy established in March 2025, aimed at foreign government officials - immigration, customs, airport and port officials among them - and others believed to be knowingly facilitating illegal immigration, with authority drawn from Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Mexican authorities were helping to break up the earlier group because they recognized it would create problems at the border, and that the United States had been monitoring it for some time.
The caravan traffic is not a single column. A separate group that left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on September 20 - estimated at about 300 people in the DHS account - had crossed into Mexico by late September, and reporting on the Fe y Esperanza movements describes more than 600 people reaching Tapachula, a Mexican intervention near Arriaga, Chiapas that effectively dispersed one group, and another gathering in Tapachula in mid-October. For Texas, the question riding under the search term is the standing one: whether any of these groups reassembles and reaches the border - and Washington's answer, delivered in advance, is that the door is closed and the organizers are now targets themselves.
