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‘Caravans’ and refugees: What to know
Topic Started: Apr 2 2018, 10:46 PM (40 Views)
The Inquisitor
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http://video.foxnews.com/v/5762344964001/?#sp=show-clips
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La Pasionaria
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What you need to know you won't learn by watching Fox.

Hope this helps:

Mis- and Dis-Information Surround That Caravan of Illegal Immigrants https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mis-and-dis-information-surround-that-caravan-of-illegal-immigrants/

"That Caravan of Migrants in Mexico Is Still. . . Almost 900 Miles from the U.S. Border

This morning, President Trump tweeted, “Congress must immediately pass Border Legislation, use Nuclear Option if necessary, to stop the massive inflow of Drugs and People. Border Patrol Agents (and ICE) are GREAT, but the weak Dem laws don’t allow them to do their job. Act now Congress, our country is being stolen!”

Those of us with memories of. . . several months will remember when President Trump was boasting on February 28, “45-year low on illegal border crossings this year. Ice and Border Patrol Agents are doing a great job for our Country. MS-13 thugs being hit hard.” What a change in a little more than a month!

Here are the actual numbers on Southwest border patrol apprehensions. In the last full month of the Obama administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended a little over 48,000 individuals; the peak in the past few years was May 2014 at nearly 69,000. The first full month of the Trump administration, the number dropped to 23,000; by April it was below 16,000. But the number of apprehended attempted crossers creeped up to between 35,000 and 40,000 in the past few months.

The border is on the president’s mind, after Fox News did a segment on a caravan of 1,200 migrants from Central America making their way north towards the United States. According to Adolfo Flores, a BuzzFeed reporter traveling with the caravan, there are about 1,200 participants and “about two-thirds of people are planning on crossing into the United States undetected or asking for some type of protection like asylum.” (This means the caravan amounts to roughly 2 percent of the recent typical monthly sum of intercepted migrants.)

This morning Trump also tweeted that “Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large “Caravans” of people enter their country” — although the caravan began reportedly gathered in Tapachula, meaning it formed within Mexico, not Guatemala. But the BuzzFeed reporter’s account does describe Mexican efforts to stop migrants: “Twenty-nine-year-old Mateo Juan said the caravan was his third attempt at getting to the United States. Seven months ago, Mexican immigration officers pulled him off the bus. The same happened about a month ago.”

In Flores’ last update, he describes the migrant caravan setting up camp in Santiago Niltepec, in Mexico’s Oaxaca state. That is nearly 900 miles from Brownsville, Texas, the closest point on the U.S. border."

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