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erpowers

(9,350 posts)
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 12:08 AM Apr 2018

Trump and the Mexican Caravan

It seems that Donald Trump is trying to take credit for a caravan that was travelling through Mexico being disrupted. Did Trump's supposed anger about the caravan really have anything to do with the breakup of the caravan. When the story first broke about Trump being angry about this caravan I heard someone on the news say that the caravan was a yearly thing that always end in Mexico. So, does anyone know if the caravan was always supposed to end in Mexico, or were the people in the caravan really trying to get to America. I have heard conflicting accounts. After the first day in which it was stated that the caravan was supposed to end in Mexico, I heard reports that the people were actually trying to get to the United States. So what is the truth? Where the migrants trying to get the United States, or were they just trying to get to Mexico.

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lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
1. Univision has nightly live reports on this. They interview people in the caravan
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 12:21 AM
Apr 2018

And they all say they want to come to the US and seek asylum

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. So, in other words, to go through proper legal processes rather than illegally cross en masse ...
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 03:44 AM
Apr 2018

Which is what the Liar-In-Chief suggested repeatedly, evoking images of lawless renegades seeking to overwhelm our Border forces by sheer numbers (hence the need for the military intervention he's called for) so they can rape and pillage Faux Viewers and their families at will ... if not for the brave Trump who protects them from the horrors ...

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
3. Exactlty. I mean what does Moron think? That over 1,000 people are planning to cross the
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 11:57 AM
Apr 2018

border together...how? Taking on the border patrol? They are unarmed, they aren't violent, and most are women and children.

Their stories are heart-breaking. Like a woman who was raped in Honduras, when to the authorities who did nothing. The guy tried to kill her and she knows that if she returns she will be murdered.

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