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Caravans: El Salvador and Sanchez Cordero

caravans: We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they're calling 'the mother of all caravans,' and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people, Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday, according to CTV. But a Whats App group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador to set off for Guatemala only has about 206 members. Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming. Activist Irineo Mujica, who has accompanied several caravans in Mexico, said reports about the mother of all caravans were false, claiming this is information that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is using to create fear. Indeed, past caravans hit very serious logistical hurdles at 7,000-strong. His group, Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said in a statement there was no evidence the new caravan would be that large, noting there has never been a caravan of the size that Sanchez Cordero mentioned. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.