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Family in Honduras reveals extent of poverty behind migrant caravans

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Hondurans continue to flee their country from intense poverty and violence as Donald Trump tells the media about his plans to terminate the birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.

Aerial views show a slum with houses built out of mud and iron sheets situated in the province of Ocotepeque near the border with Guatemala and Salvador.

On the ground footage captured on October 25 reveals the detrimental conditions a Honduran family have to cope with on a daily basis.

A father of six, who lives in a ramshackle house along with his wife and his 5 children, blames the government for the lack of jobs and the poor conditions they feel bound to live in. ‘’We [Hondurans] are migrating because our country is destroyed and abandoned by the government. We are desperate,’’ he says in the video.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off aid to Central American countries for not stopping the migrant caravans heading into the United States.

‘’Donald Trump never helped us. That is a lie,'' says the woman and mother-of-six in the video. She also tells the filmer how relatives and other people in the neighbourhood are fleeing because of the lack of jobs.

Thousands of Hondurans and other Central American migrants continue their journey to the United States. As a response, Donald Trump’s administration has sent at least 5,200 soldiers to the US-Mexico border to stop the migrants and has threatened illegal asylum seekers saying they will be kept in ‘’nice’’ tents.

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