US halts issue of visas to Hondurans

[Judi Lynn]

June 18, 2006

US halts issue of visas to Hondurans

TEGUCIGALPA - The United States has stopped issuing travel visas to Hondurans indefinitely, saying lax rules in the Central American nation let third-country nationals obtain local passports used for travel to America.

The US embassy in Honduras said on Saturday it had ordered the issue of all new visas to Hondurans suspended. This week, local authorities arrested two Cameroon citizens trying to obtain Honduran passports using fake identity documents.

"The controls are not sufficient for us, and it is our responsibility to protect the United States," the embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission James Willard told local radio.

Central America is seen as a relatively easy route to the United States by some African and Asian immigrants.

Last week, Honduras warned it had become a new route for Cuban immigrants bound for the United States, with an increasing number washing up on the Caribbean coast on their way to the US border.
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=42026

[struggle4progress]

1. I wonder who was coming up from Honduras to tell Americans ..

.. about Death Squad Johnny's past.



Protest John Negroponte - June 22, 7PM
... Negroponte lives on a quiet, tree lined street. From the outside, no one would suspect that a high ranking terrorist and war criminal lives in the pretty corner house at 3100 Cleveland Ave. NW.

On Thursday, June 22 at 7 PM,
We will expose him.
We will not be silent.
We will express our outrage.

Please join us.

Bring signs, banners, and noisemakers.
We will meet at Woodley Park Metro Stop and walk/bike/scooter together
to the home of Negroponte at 3100 Cleveland Avenue NW...

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/134066/index.php

[Judi Lynn]

2. Please post any info. you hear about this upcoming event.

It's a WONDERFUL idea. I wish some of the people present could wear the clothes of Honduran villagers. Or, they could wear the garb of death squad Battalion 316, which he financed and supported, and scare the holy bejeezus outta him.

It would be wonderful to imagine him hiding in his house, trembling with the same kind of fear he inflicted on the terrorized people of Latin America.