Progressives pretend that these are all persecuted Hispanics.
Not so. As one investigative journalist who witnessed first-hand human trafficking from Guatemala to the U.S. wrote:
“[Guatemala] is literally a superhighway for human smuggling of people from all over the world, including the Middle East. As a journalist in 2007, I traveled throughout Guatemala tracing their paths and interviewed numerous current and former government officials there about the Middle Easterners, Somalis, Pakistanis, and others coursing through toward Mexico. I also once visited a Guatemalan consular office in Amman, Jordan, where Iraqi refugees told me their human smugglers were sourcing visas for about $700 each.”
100 Terrorists Captured at the Gates of North America | Clarion Project
Why should an announcement by Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales that 100 terrorists captured in Guatemala, including ISIS militants, be concerning to Americans? (At the same time, Morales also revealed over 1,000 gang members were also arrested, including members of MS-13.) Guatemala has long been recognized as a funnel for trafficking of illegal immigrants to the U.S.