Posted on 04/04/2018 12:54:34 PM PDT by 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.
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Great news!!! God bless you, President Trump!!!
“....National Guard troops to support at the border — WITH STRICT ORDERS THAT THEY NEED TO BE PRODUCTIVE....”
By assisting with building the Wall, maybe? That’s within the Guard’s purview. Troops, trucks, & bulldozers, they’ve got ‘em.
********* T R U M P !! *********
It is an annual event, every spring thousands more make their way north, just not usually with this much publicity.
DemocRat lawyers are on their way there to advise them how to sneak across the border and game the system.
Love that photo.
This is good news but it also makes me mad. Trump had the balls to stand up to this nonsense and got the Libs to back down. If the Republican Congress or officeholders like Jorge Bush had the balls to stand up to the Libs like this in the past, how many other Obama and Dem power grabs and scams could have been shut down?
Under bammy he would have let it be known, without any doubt, that he wanted them in the USA.
“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...”
Oh, B.S.! Who has heard of this in prior years? The Enemy Media sure hasn’t covered it in any meaningful way other than THIS year to try to hang it around PDJT’s NECK!
Thank you, President Trump, for showing LEADERSHIP and STRENGTH.
MAGA!
They are wrapping it up because they don’t want to face the national guard.
The AZ desert is full of water mules and signs on the most used trails that will lead them to the mules and medical help. The Left is Hell-bent on destroying this country.
We still need to put our military on the border until the wall is built.
They are just going to break up into smaller groups to infiltrate through many paths, rather than try to overwhelm at a single point.
Have you taken note of the men in this group? About half of them look and act like they are lifetime members & veterans of the “MS-13” gangs of murderers, drug dealers & female slave traders. POTUS, Trump...send them all back where they came from.
Let them overthrow their own governments & crime cartels...period. I can assure all of you...these people will destroy our great country......it’s an Obama/Clinton/Democrat dream.
This whole stunt was done in coordination with the UNRWA's Gaza stunt, obviously. Thanks JimRob.
Due to the attention, these clowns will STILL ENTER the US and this time..quietly via another corridor.
Soros ordered this canceled in terror after Trump announced he would send the military. this is the Left’s worst nightmare.
Yes, but I mean the places in Mexico.
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