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Honduras Detains 5 Syrian Nationals with Fake Passports

<p>Amid escalating concerns that members of ISIS will manage to infiltrate the United States by posing as refugees comes the discovery of five fake passports&period; Honduras detained a small group of Syrians Saturday when they were found holding stolen Greek passports&period; They were on their way to the US&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em>Fox News<&sol;em>&comma; Honduran officials discovered&comma; &ldquo&semi;five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports&comma;&rdquo&semi; and to make matters worse&comma; the &ldquo&semi;Syrians were trying to arrive in the US by land&comma; presumably by traveling through Mexico&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to officials&comma; the stolen passports were doctored with new photos to match the faces of the Syrians&period; Honduran authorities are on the alert for more attempts&period; The five Syrians remain in police custody in Tegucigalpa&comma; Honduras&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;We received information from police services that these five Syrians left Greece and passed through Turkey&comma; Brazil&comma; Argentina&comma; and San Jose in Costa Rica before finally reaching Tegucigalpa&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Anibal Baca&comma; a spokesman for the Honduran police&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Due to its location&comma; many migrants on their way to the US pass through Honduras&period; In recent years&comma; Honduran officials have claimed that &ldquo&semi;mixed messages&rdquo&semi; coming from the Obama Administration encourage human trafficking because illegal immigrants are more inclined to risk a trip to America if they believe they have chance of earning legal status when they get there&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Because the country is a signatory to the <em>UN Convention on the Status of Refugees<&sol;em> &lpar;1967&rpar;&comma; Honduras is obligated by law to admit Syrian refugees&period; Honduras is one of 142 countries to have signed the agreement&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the Central American country is already&nbsp&semi;dealing with a migrant crisis as it attempts to stop thousands of Cuban refugees holding Costa Rican visas from passing through the country&period; While Honduras supports the&nbsp&semi;Cuban communist dictatorship&comma; Costa Rica remains a staunch American ally and has been forced to absorb the Cuban refugees&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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