Irish Daily Mirror

Cops make a meal of chase

- BY CHRISTOPHE­R BUCKTIN US Editor in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas

POLICE in Nashville used an oatmeal snack to catch a loose chicken.

It had led officers on a wild chase through the city, where it caused mayhem for motorists.

The chicken will now be handed over to an animal rescue group.

Kids shelter under a truck at the border DONALD Trump won the White House with his plan for a border wall and a relentless attack on immigratio­n.

His plans have caused misery in the border region and bitter division, politicall­y, in America.

So the Mirror spoke to the people at the sharp end of Trump’s divisive policies which, they say, condemn them to death as they flee violence and poverty in pursuit life in America.

We drove the length of the 1,990-mile Us/mexico border to learn first hand the struggles, savagery and suffering.

Over the next three days, the Mirror will take you on the journey starting today on the Guatemalan border with Mexico, where 12,000 people in the “caravan of hope” have passed through.

As little Oneida Paz plays innocently with her cousins, the toddler’s doting parents watch over her. With 4,000 other migrants, the young Honduran family wait patiently under what shade they can find in the searing 33C heat, while hoping for legal entry into Mexico.

If successful, ahead lies a long trek which they hope will one day deliver their “little angel” from the violence and oppression in their gang-ridden homeland to the Land of the Free.

Oneida is oblivious to the gruelling plight she faces as her parents plan their journey to the US.

And, thankfully, she is too young to know that Donald Trump views her mother and father – along with the other migrants heading to America for a better life – as killers, rapists, drug dealers and “bad hombres”.

The Mirror met the toddler and her family after being granted exclusive access to the Ciudad Hidalgo crossing on the border of Mexico and Guatemala, to see first hand the growing humanitari­an crisis that has now left more than 25,000 central Americans without a country to call home.

They now plan to make their way to Tijuana, 1,600 miles away, on the US border near San Diego.

Each day, as caravans of migrants begin their arduous journey north, Trump continues to exploit their plight in an

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attempt to secure funding for his €4.7billion wall. He said at the weekend: “If we had a powerful wall, they wouldn’t even try to make the long, dangerous journey. Build the wall and crime will fall.”

But Trump’s rhetoric has failed to deter the thousands of migrants who have crossed the Suchiate River road bridge at this border checkpoint.

Already thousands are now heading north after being granted

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