Thousands of migrants set out this Sunday in a new caravan from Mexico’s southern border, aiming to reach Mexico City and eventually attempt to cross into the United States, despite tighter restrictions imposed by Donald Trump in his return to the White House.

The undocumented migrants intend to challenge the Republican’s immigration policies, which include Monday’s executive order, issued at the start of his second term, mandating the deportation of thousands of undocumented individuals currently in the U.S.

Some members of the caravan hope to remain at Mexico’s northern border, fearing deportation to their home countries.

The group departed from Tapachula (Chiapas, southern Mexico) following the cancellation of the CBP ONE app, which previously allowed them to apply for asylum in the United States. The migration is driven by unemployment, insecurity, and the hope that new options may emerge to help them reach their destination.

The caravan’s departure comes just days after Trump signed his first executive orders aimed at “sealing” the southern border with a military deployment and reinstating the controversial “Remain in Mexico” program, which requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed.

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The Government of Honduras announced this Sunday the launch of the “Brother, Come Back Home” program, an initiative designed to support returning migrants by ensuring a dignified and safe return, according to a statement from the Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs on its X account.

The program is built on three main pillars: economic support through a solidarity grant to provide returning migrants with initial funds for reintegration, a food assistance system, and a large-scale employment program aimed at creating job opportunities to facilitate migrants’ integration into various productive sectors.

With this initiative, Honduras joins other regional efforts to receive migrants deported from the United States. Last Monday, the Government of Mexico introduced the “Mexico Welcomes You” plan to support repatriated individuals. The plan also includes the construction of three additional temporary shelters in the state of Tamaulipas to accommodate deported migrants.

18-year-old Axel Rudakubana, guilty of the murder of three girls in the English town of Southport (northern England) on July 29, 2024, was sentenced this Thursday to a minimum prison time of 52 years, according to a Liverpool court.

Judge Julian Goose imposed a life sentence on Rudakubana, but since he was a minor at the time of committing the crime, and British law does not allow life imprisonment for minors, a minimum of 51 years and 190 days in prison was determined, discounting the time he has already been under bars since his arrest.

“(Axel Rudakubana) will spend most of his life in prison. I think it is quite likely that he will never be released and that he will be in prison all his life,” Goose added in the reading of the sentence, where he commented that, if he had been 18 years old, he would have sentenced him to life imprisonment without a minimum period.

Rudakubana, who did not express remorse after killing the minors, had pleaded guilty on Monday to the charges of stabbing murder of 6-year-old Bebe King; Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9; and of trying to murder eight other minors and two adults during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.

In total, Rudakubana was convicted of a total of 16 charges, including the production of ricin, a biological toxin and the possession of an Al Qaeda training manual, although he admitted that there was no evidence to consider the attack a terrorist cause, but he did commit “equivalent” actions.

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“I am sure that Rudakabana had a fixed and determined intention to carry out these crimes, and that if he had been able to, he would have killed each and every one of the minors, all 26 of them, as well as all the adults who had stook in his way,” said the British magistrate.

Shortly after the punishment against infanticide became known, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that it is considering the possibility of filing an appeal with the Court of Appeal if it concludes that the sentence has been “excessively lenient.”

During the incident, Rudakubana stabbed at least 122 times the youngest of the victims, 6 years old, and tried to “decapitate her,” according to the pathologist who examined the body.

The Rudakubana case has also highlighted the errors in the British anti-terrorist prevention system, after it was revealed this week that the young man had been referred to the youth program ‘Prevent’ from the age of 14 until three times.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement after the conviction was announced that the Southport massacre is “one of the most heartbreaking moments” in the history of the United Kingdom.

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“What happened in Southport was an atrocity and, as the judge has stated, this vile criminal will probably never be released. After one of the most heartbreaking moments in the history of our country, we owe those innocent girls and all those affected the change they deserve,” he said.

He alluded in this way to the “fundamental change” in the protection of minors that he asked for on Tuesday after Rudakubana pleaded guilty, when he dropped that the legal definition of terrorism should be changed to include actions such as that of Southport.