Dozens of migrants arrive at US-Mexico border

Dozens of migrants arrived at the US-Mexico border on Friday hoping to be allowed into the United States, with US border forces reporting 1.8 million encounters with migrants in the last 12 months.

Migrants from countries including Honduras and Venezuela crossed the Rio Grande River that separates the United States and Mexico to encounter an almost impassable wall of barbed wire preventing them from entering US territory.

President Joe Biden has tried to discourage the flow of migrants by announcing new asylum and visas processing systems in countries of origin. The US secretary of homeland security is scheduled to meet Honduran President in the McAllen on Saturday to discuss immigration cooperation.