The Migrant caravan to NO WHERE !

BIG QUESTION are these poor and desperate people  crazy ? There goal is to cross boarders and reach America . While they might be looking for a new life , I have to ponder on their sanity out of their desperate plight. Why is not this huge humanitarian crisis the subject of a (**)>>UN inquire?  In interviews along the journey, migrants have said they are fleeing widespread violence, poverty and corruption. The caravan is unlike previous mass migrations for its unprecedented large numbers and because it largely sprang up spontaneously through word of mouth.  Some of the caravan migrants cry poverty and use children as shields while pleading their case. Others in the caravan have likely learned - from the migrants who preceded them and from open borders advocates encouraging their migration - the playbook of how to exploit the loophole-ridden U.S. immigration laws. (1.1)>>LETS  BE RATIONAL. They are maybe going no-where . For one view point its the wrong way to become a American . You just don't invade another countries borders . They are likely to be rounded up , sent to detention centers .  While to many Central and South Americans , the North is a kind of  (1.1.1 )>>El Hombre Dorado .  (1.2)>>Trump has placed blame on Democrats, threatened to cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and urged an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws despite Congress being out of session.He called the caravan an “assault on our country” at a rally Monday night in Houston and said the “Democrats had something to do with” it. Earlier in the day, Trump had pledged to cut off or “substantially” reduce foreign aid to the Northern Triangle countries.  The caravan’s numbers have continued to grow as they walk and hitch rides through hot and 

"we now have pictures of 7,000 people invading the country,
but the truth is this happens every day.
There is an invasion
from south of our border of
people getting into
the country illegally,
and it’s been going
on for decades now,
but it’s very seldom
 seen. Random
photos here, random videos there,
 but nothing like this."
---- Rush Limbuagh 

humid weather, and the United Nations estimated that it currently comprises some 7,200 people, “many of whom intend to continue the march north."   (2)>>However, they were still at least 1,140 miles (1,830 kilometers) from the nearest border crossing — Texas — and the length of their journey could more than double if they go to Tijuana-San Diego, the destination of another caravan earlier this year. That one shrank significantly as it moved through Mexico, and only a tiny fraction — about 200 of the 1,200 in the group — reached the California border.  Even as it moves into Mexico, the illegal caravan has well over 1,000 miles to travel. ( 3) >>There's not enough time to get to the border by the November 6 election. So don't be surprised if trucks, buses and cars "unexpectedly" show up to give them a lift most of the way across Mexico. These columns favor generous immigration and asylum for refugees. But when migration becomes a political weapon to foment border chaos, leaders have no choice other than to step in and protect national security. Members of the caravan have already demonstrated their violent streak during an early stage of their trek, as they approached Mexico. They “forced their way through Guatemala's northwestern border and flooded onto a bridge leading to Mexico,” AFP reported. These migrants, mainly from Honduras, engaged in violent clashes with Mexican riot police as they tried to surge through police lines and cross the bridge into Mexico. Four Mexican police officers were reportedly injured. "Violent entry into the country not only threatens our sovereignty, but also puts the migrants themselves at risk," Mexico’s President Pena Nieto said. "Mexico does not permit and will not permit entry into its territory in an irregular fashion, much less in a violent fashion." While President Trump tweeted a stern warning Thursday to the migrant caravan heading toward the United States– telling the thousands of people currently making their way through Mexico to turn around as U.S. troops are set to move to the southern border.“To those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally,” the president tweeted. “Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!”
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Question will they make it ? It's unlikely , like we have seen before with the last migration with images of children in cages . These new immigrants will probably if they do make it in will face being added to the already exhausted welfare system . They will still face poverty . Coming to America illegally is dangerous period. They claim to seek asylum from poverty. The United States recognizes the right of asylum for individuals as specified by international and federal law. A specified number of legally defined refugees who either apply for asylum from inside the U.S. or apply for refugee status from outside the U.S., are admitted annually. Refugees compose about one-tenth of the total annual immigration to the United States, though some large refugee populations are very prominent.[see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1158 ] The current state of many Latin American countries is the result of mindless American exploitation and political intervention which turned them into ‘Banana Republics’. Take for example, Honduras where the caravan took off. It has virtually been an American colony  since the 1890s with the American banana companies seizing most of its fertile land and rendering  the farmers  destitute. Trump has seized on the caravan as a key talking point heading into the midterm elections. The president has been pointing to the growing group of migrants as justification for his aggressive immigration proposals. It is impossible to predict how many of the migrants will eventually reach the border. In the past, hundreds of migrants have fallen away from caravans as they traveled, either turned back by Mexico, settling there, or setting off on their own.The migrants usually intend to turn themselves in to authorities in the U.S. Once they’re at a designated port of entry or if they are apprehended trying to cross illegally, they can tell officials that they have a fear of persecution in their home country. That triggers an asylum interview.

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(**)>>UN inquire? Answering questions from reporters at the daily press briefing on Monday, UN Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), had been boosting resources on the ground, as the caravan of mainly Honduran refugees and migrants made its way north, across the border between Guatemala and Mexico.Mr. Haq said that UN Secretary-General António Guterres was urging all parties to abide by international law, including the principle of “full respect for countries’ rights to manage their own borders.”According to media reports, what started as a small group of under 200 just a few days ago, has grown considerably. Mr. Haq told journalists that “it is estimated that the caravan comprises some 7,233 persons, many of whom intend to continue the march north.”US President Donald Trump has reportedly responded to the march, by threatening to cut off foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador should the caravan of people fleeing their homeland, attempt to cross into the US illegally.Earlier this week, a UN rights expert urged Member States not to prioritize security concerns over the basic human rights of migrants and refugees.“UNHCR has reinforced its capacity in Southern Mexico, with the deployment of an emergency team drawn from across Mexico’s operations,” said Mr. Haq. “The office now has 32 people on the ground, in the border, Ciudad Hidalgo, and Tapachula.”

He added that these numbers will increase in the coming days, explaining that the agency’s aim was to ensure that travelers are fully informed regarding their rights to asylum, along with providing legal advice and humanitarian assistance.The IOM has reported large numbers of people arriving in Mexico who will likely remain in the country for an “extended period,” Mr. Haq said, explaining that most individuals have crossed irregularly and are gathering in makeshift shelters.(1.1)>>LETS  BE RATIONAL.   A lot of people want to have the American Dream , even American citizens want the same dream. The Reality the American dream has been fading in the last decades for the undocumented its like skating on thin ice According to public opinion polls, a majority of Americans approve of creating ways for undocumented immigrants to become official. A Los Angeles Times poll in 2007, for example, found that 60 percent of registered voters favored a proposal that would allow all, not just student, illegal immigrants (without criminal records) to start on a path to citizenship.   (1.1.1 )>>El Hombre Dorado . The idea of this caravan  had started when  Bartolo Fuentes of the  Freedom and Refoundation Party of Honduras reproduced a poster on his Facebook page inviting people for a migrant march  with the  slogan: “We’re not leaving because we want to, but because we are being expelled by violence and poverty.” The march commenced last week with 160 people  from  the gang-plagued city of San Pedro Sula, deciding  to leave for a safe haven which they identified as the US.   (1)>>Trump has placed blame on Democrats. The president seized on the issues as winners for Republicans attempting to preserve their congressional majority.Trump has since found the perfect opening with a migrant caravan snaking up through Central America toward the U.S. border — and hitting his favorite cable news TV shows. And now the president is talking and tweeting nonstop about the caravan, hoping his strategy will pay off in the final two weeks before Election Day. “Every time you see a Caravan,” he tweeted earlier Monday, “or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms!”  (2)>>However, they were still at least 1,140 miles (1,830 kilometers) from the nearest border crossing — Texas —    If you’re concerned about the caravan, here are a few facts to make you feel better. At noon on October 21, a USA Today story placed the caravan in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. This is a border city. That is, it is a city on the border between Mexico and Guatemala. That’s a whole country away from the US.( 3) >>There's not enough time to get to the border by the November 6 election. President Donald Trump is increasingly seizing on the caravan . If the caravan is ginning up voter interest ahead of the midterms, 6 November midterm elections. Republican operatives – and Trump himself – have described the caravan as a political windfall, a symbol of a broken system they say is allowing the president to relitigate immigration as an issue that touches on the economy as well as law and order. Trump hit both themes hard during the 2016 presidential campaign.