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Honduran migrant: ‘President-elect Biden is going to help all of us’

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In an interview with CNN, a Honduran migrant said a caravan is traveling to the U.S. because President-elect Joe Biden is giving migrants “100 days” to arrive in the country.

“I just want patience and prayers that we can get to the U.S. because they’re having a new president, Biden,” the migrant said. “He’s going to help all of us, he’s giving us 100 days to get to the U.S. and give us [legal] papers, so we can get a better life for our kids and family.”

Thousands of Honduran migrants are making their way to the U.S. after Biden promised to end the immigration policies of the Trump administration.

A transition official told NBC News that “the situation at the border isn’t going to be transformed overnight.”

Biden’s transition team has urged migrants to turn back because “now is not the time” to come.

“There’s help on the way, but now is not the time to make the journey,” the official said, according to NBC News.

According to the Associated Press, a caravan of as many as 9,000 Honduran migrants are trying to reach the U.S. border after their home country was devastated by hurricanes.

On Friday night, about 2,000 members of the caravan overwhelmed the Guatemalan authorities and entered Guatemala without showing documentation or negative COVID screenings. The caravan is predicted to arrive at the U.S. border in the coming weeks.

The official said that people in the caravan “will not find when they get to the U.S. border that from Tuesday to Wednesday, things have changed overnight and ports are all open and they can come into the United States.”

“We have to provide a message that help and hope is on the way,” the official continued. “But coming right now does not make sense for their own safety…while we put into place processes that they may be able to access in the future.”

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Oprah’s Scare Tactic: If Women Don’t Vote For Harris, May Not Have Opportunity to ‘Ever Cast a Ballot Again’

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It was the threat of the century when billionaire Oprah Winfrey spoke at the Kamala Harris rally the night before election day. The television mogul told women at the Philadelphia rally late Monday night that if they don’t show up and vote for Kamala Harris today, they may never ever have the chance to vote again in their lifetimes.

Winfrey told the audience a story about when she was hiking on Sunday and met a woman named Angela. Allegedly Angela told Winfrey she had decided not to vote in this election.

Oprah said she told Angela, “We don’t get to sit this one out. If we don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.”

 Winfrey also said if women did not make sure the people in their lives could get to the polls, “that is a mistake.”

“Deciding not to decide that is most definitely a vote to let other people control your future,” she continued.

She said about Harris before introducing singer Will.I.Am, “She sees us, and she will do her mighty best to serve all of us. I believe we can do that, and I know she can do that, yes she can, yes she can, yes she can, and to say it and sing it and drive that message home.”

Singer Katy Perry also performed at the Harris rally and told the audience that she had a baby four years ago and believes Kamala Harris has her daughter’s best interests at heart and will protect her.

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