Whatever happen to that caravan, anyway?

[Dill]

(11-23-2018, 06:13 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Politics. I don't blame the mayor for playing that card. Their fed should step up with resources. They made a big show of helping the caravan and offering them citizenship several weeks ago. Here's another chance for them to show "what great people they are".

(Actually, I'm a little down on the Mexican government now after watching the latest season of "Narcos".)

Is this a humanitarian crisis as big as in other places? Maybe. It depends on whether most of these people left their homes to walk several thousand miles to a country that is declaring they don't want them because they were literally in fear for their lives or because they wanted better economic opportunities. If it is the former (which is what I tend to believe), then it is a pretty big deal, IMO.

According to the talk radio host I listened to on the way to work this morning (Kilmeade and Friends), some administrator of ICE for the Tijuana section of the border says that these people in the caravan have a "strong sense of entitlement" and that is why they are violating Mexican and U.S. law.  Mexico has arrested and deported 500 hundred of them.

So maybe they are like spoiled American teenagers; they had everything handed to them while growing up back in Honduras or El Salvador and now just want to walk thousands of miles to get more stuff.