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Yes I read it. Why didn't ALL of them apply? They are being offered jobs and places to stay
Give them time. They still have a LONG way to go, and over time, reality will set in for more and more of them, and they will be too exhausted to want to go any further, and will decide that Mexico is "good enough" and decide to take whatever offer they can get.
I doubt very many of these average people mostly women and children are going to make it on this thousand mile walk. but those that do will be half dead when they arrive and the "lock her up" crowd will have themselves an easy turkey shoot showing the world what a Christian nation America is.
They rode in buses and trucks etc. from Honduras to Mexico, sometimes making more than 100 miles in a day. Once in Mexico, where they are reported to be walking, they have never gone as FEW as 20 miles in a day, except on rest days. On one day they reportedly covered more than 60 miles. See the chart in the OP.
An Olympic marathoner could do that. I don't think these folks are Olympic marathoners.
What transportation are they using on those long days? Who is providing it, and who is paying for it?
Good questions.
The caravan formed about two weeks ago in San Pedro Sula, Honduras - that's 14 days ago. Traveling at 25 miles per day (which is a good clip -hard to imagine that older people or kids can travel that far every day) it should have taken them abut 24 days to reach the point they're at now in Tapanatepec, Mexico. Instead, and taking several days off to rest, they made it ten days faster than is feasible. They're not walking this entire distance. It's 592 miles from the starting point to where they are today. That's an average of about 42 to 43 miles per day. Please. Kids, people pushing strollers, elderly people - they're not walking 42 miles a day.
Third migrants’ caravan scheduled to leave El Salvador within the next week
The number of migrants traveling through Mexico could soon reach 10,000
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
A third caravan of migrants is expected to leave Central America within the next week, which could bring the total number of people escaping poverty and violence by making the northward trek to nearly 10,000.
The third wave, believed to have been inspired by the caravan now traveling through Chiapas, is scheduled to leave El Salvador on October 28 and cross the border into via Tecún Umán, Guatemala, according to one report.
Heard the same kind of stuff in the caravan from earlier this year. Only about 200 actually made it to Tijuana in the end. Much ado about nothing. There are far more illegals who are not in caravans who cross everyday. But it keeps the right riled for the mid terms I guess.
They will, possibly already are destroying the economy - they send billions back to their Home Counties yearly, depriving the U.S. economy of monetary circulation and burdening our social services by adding the weight of prolly millions of non/citizens to Medicaid, among other services intended for citizens. They stress the social structure by necessitating special instruction in schools, stressing of police and safety forces due to non-citizen brown-on-brown crime and general gang activity.
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Originally Posted by ClaraC
So I have a question.
If Mexico's economy/social structure can easily absorb these people, and they're very willing to do it, why can't the US?
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