SAN PEDRO SULA — A new migrant caravan set out on foot from northern Honduras on Tuesday, November 3, as millions of U.S. voters were heading to the polls for midterm elections. It is the third caravan of dozens to leave the country since September, according to AFP.
The group, described as “dozens” of people, gathered in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and left from the city’s bus terminal area with backpacks and suitcases. Tunota, a Honduran outlet, reported a departure at about 5:00 p.m. and said an initial summary put the number at around a hundred.
No outlet has given an exact count, but video circulating on social media of the caravan en route appears to show many more than “dozens” and likely more than reported one hundred making the trek north.
Calls to join circulate mainly on TikTok and WhatsApp, and no organizers have been named. A group of Salvadorans planned to leave San Salvador on Wednesday, November 4, in two buses to meet the Hondurans at the Guatemala-Mexico border, AFP reported.
Migrant groups cite unemployment, low wages and the cost of living for reasons for their departure. “Here we have nothing more,” said Jimena Morazán, 47, who is traveling with five family members. Some migrants said they hoped the elections would weaken U.S. immigration restrictions, and others hoped to move while U.S. authorities were occupied with the vote.
Jesús Carías, 30, who is traveling with his wife and three children, is making his fourth attempt to reach the United States.
Cell phone footage of Honduran migrant caravan from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, November 3, 2026. Source: X
AFP, citing official figures, says 61% of Honduras’s 11.2 million people live in poverty and the homicide rate is 24 per 100,000 residents, about three times the global average.
Washington’s Response
The U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa said on X that caravans have no chance of entering U.S. territory. It also posted a video warning that “the borders of the United States are closed to those who break the law” and that people who enter illegally will be deported.
The Trump administration said last week it will revoke the visas of caravan organizers, and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau called the migrants “pawns” in caravans “meticulously organized on social media,” according to Tunota.
The Department of Homeland Security says it has revoked the immigration status of 2.2 million foreign nationals since January 2025 and restricted work permits.
The caravan will have to cross Guatemala and Mexico, where earlier groups have been stopped or dispersed.
No response from the Honduran, Guatemalan or Mexican governments had been reported at the time of writing.
