MIGRANT 1: I hope that as soon as the new President Biden takes office, I'll be able to maybe save up some money and soon make the trip.
REPORTER: Migrants from countries in Central America's Northern Triangle have the perception that the Biden Era will be favorable to them. (People) are already talking about a caravan of Hondurans which would depart their country this January 15th.
VICE-PRESIDENT ELECT KAMALA HARRIS: We have an immigration bill, for example, that we are going to be proposing as our first order of business. And it will be about creating a pathway for people to earn citizenship. We’re going to reduce the time from what is now- has been currently 13 years to 8 years. We are going to expand protections for DREAMers and DACA recipients. We’re going to be tightening up the process for green cards, and making sure that we give people a very defined period of time from the time that they actually apply for a green card through the time of obtaining citizenship. We are going to put more judges and deal with what we need to do in terms of people arriving at the border to make sure that the process runs smoothly and get rid of the backlog. So there are a number of things we are gonna do, but in particular about the immigration process, it’s gonna be about shortening the time by creating more and greater efficiency, allowing people who have Temporary Protected Status- and in particular, DREAMers and TPS holders to automatically get green cards.
JORGE RAMOS: The immigration promises of the incoming Biden Administration revive the hopes of many Hondurans to come to the United States in search of a better life.
REPORTER: A group of about 200 Hondurans initially departed in the first announced Honduran caravan of 2021. They all departed, determined to build new lives.
JORGE RAMOS: Hundreds of Hondurans formed a second caravan in as many weeks, expecting to arrive here. In the United States.
REPORTER: These are some six thousand migrants who, according to official records, departed from Honduras. Although the total group of persons in the caravan could be as many as nine thousand.
TELEMUNDO REPORTER: These were the riots that occurred on Saturday and on Sunday, when members of the Honduran caravan attempted to overwhelm the police cordon