Migrant caravan abandons plan to travel to US border

AFP ^ | April 4, 2018

[Jim Robinson]

A caravan of Central American migrants whose trek across Mexico infuriated President Donald Trump has decided not to travel to the US border, leaders said Tuesday.

"We will wrap up our work in Mexico City," said Irineo Mujica, the head of the migrant advocacy group People Without Borders (Pueblo sin Fronteras).

"We have support teams at the border if there are people who need assistance there, but they would have to travel on their own," he told AFP in the town of Matias Romero, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

The just over 1,000 migrants who currently make up the caravan -- many traveling in families of up to 20 people -- have been camped in the southern town since the weekend, deciding their next move in the face of daily attacks from Trump.

The Republican president vowed to send the US military to secure the border and threatened to axe the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if Mexico did not stop the caravan.

The caravan is in fact a yearly event whose goal is more to raise awareness about the plight of migrants than to reach the United States -- though some participants have traveled to the border in the past.

Mujica said this year's caravan was so large it would have been dangerous to travel to the border by train-hopping.

[ethom]

potus nuked them with his twitter!

[robroys woman]

The caravan is in fact a yearly event whose goal is more to raise awareness about the plight of migrants than to reach the United States...

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So, why is this the first year we’re hearing about it?

[EnglishOnly]

Send the Troops to the Border anyway.

Keep the Border Secured, 24 x 7.

[Enchante]

Guess they really believed POTUS Trump was ready to nuke them.

[Trod Upon]

I wouldn't be surprised if they simply break up into smaller groups and continue to our border.

That's exactly what will happen.

[Mears]

” I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply break up into smaller groups and continue to our border.”

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Maybe,but that would be business as usual-——and the publicity that the libs desired would be kaput.

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[Reno89519]

Abandoned is not really correct. They are just going to continue the journey in smaller groups. Nothing and no one says they are turning around and heading home. In fact, the organizers say they will be next at the border to help them.

[Constitution Day]

Great question.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Maybe the A10’s flying over gave them pause. /h

[Blueflag]

Just in time for the cooler months ...

[petro45acp]

...yearly event...

WTFF!?!?!?

KYPD

[StAnDeliver]

• Focus grouped by Dems
• Illegal march costs them mid-terms
• Five Eyes/Prism/Echelon who is listening to cellphones now

[Jim Robinson]

Best election, best POTUS, brassiest balls, evah!

[Leep]

Trump nuked them?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

The caravan is in fact a yearly event whose goal is more to raise awareness about the plight of migrants than to reach the United States.

This sounds ridiculous. Thousands of people trek from Central America through Mexico to the U.S. border just for a publicity stunt, then they go home? Not buying it.

[amihow]

They will fan out and dribble up here.

[StAnDeliver]

Uncle Sam is listening, pendejos...

[txrefugee]

Mexico can adopt this load and look like Mother Teresa since they’ve sent millions of their poor to the USA for our taxpayers to feed, shelter, educate, medicate, and incarcerate to the tune of $118 Billion a year. What a country…..

[blueplum]

they would have to travel on their own

well that's the caveat isn't it? Another 'we know nothing' Mexico moment.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It’s not funny, Obama really did fly illegal aliens into the country.