Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales boasted on Thursday that under his guidance, security detail has been able to capture almost 100 ISIS terrorist.

Morales shared the news while giving a speech at the second Conference for Prosperity and Security in Central America in Washington D.C. on October 11 and 12.

The president claimed that his administration has captured 'close to 100 people completely linked to terrorist issues, with ISIS and that not only have we arrested them within our territory, but they have been deported to their countries of origin.'

Morales shared the news while giving a speech at the second Conference for Prosperity and Security in Central America in Washington D.C. on October 11 and 12

Secretary of Social Communication for the Presidency, Alfredo Brito, added that the additional data on the captures was 'protected information of National Security,' Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre reported.

The president claimed that his administration has captured 'close to 100 people completely linked to terrorist issues, with ISIS and that not only have we arrested them within our territory, but they have been deported to their countries of origin'

Brito asserted that the president mentioned the news 'because it is a work in coordination with the different intelligence and security agencies.'

Secretary of Stategic Intelligence, Mario Duarte, reaffirmed that 'the individuals intercepted, detained, prosecuted or returned to their country of origin, is close to 100.'

While Duarte alluded that info pertaining to the arrest were confidential, he did point to a 2016 incident where 'several citizens of Syrian origin who were detained with false documents were detained, for which they were prosecuted and subjected to criminal proceedings.' Those people were said to have been deported.

Both Duarte and Morales pointed to the coordinated work 'with several intelligence and security agencies of the world' as the reason why so many of the people have been detained.

Back in Guatemala, members of a 4,000-strong migrant caravan have made it to a border town across the muddy Suchiate River from Mexico and faced-off with authorities as a notorious march ringleader has been arrested.

Back in Guatemala, members of a 4,000-strong migrant caravan have made it to a border town across the muddy Suchiate River from Mexico

About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated, joining the sea of humanity on the bridge

Members of the caravan of more than 3,000 migrants had earlier burst through a Guatemalan border fence and rushed onto the bridge over the Suchiate River, defying Mexican authorities' entreaties for an orderly crossing and U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of retaliation.

But they were met Friday by a wall of police with riot shields on the Mexican side of the bridge. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated, joining the sea of humanity on the bridge.

Police and immigration agents began letting small groups of 10, 20 or 30 people through the gates if they wanted to apply for refugee status. Once they file a claim, they can go to a shelter to spend the night