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The caravan as it moves through Mexico

"The caravan is organized by a group called Pueblo Sin Fronteras [Village Without Borders],^[2] but the effort is supported by the coalition CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, which includes Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLIN), the American Immigration Council (AIC), the Refugee and Immigration Center for Education and Legal Services (RICELS) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) – thus the acronym CARA," WND reported. "At least three of the four groups are funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation."^[3]

Soros front groups are known to have paid human traffickers and have sponsored the migrant invasion of Europe since 2013.^[8][9] Some migrants even arrived with ATM cards provided by the Soros-funded Mercy Corp organization.^[10] Mercy Corp has been implicated in human trafficking.^[11]

Soros, a self-confessed Nazi collaborator who betrayed his own people who ended up in Nazi death camps,^[12] now claims he's a victim of anti-Semitism.^[13] Soros has called for regime change in the United States.^[14]

Genesis

The caravan was organized by an open borders group called "People Without Borders," or Pueblo Sin Fronteras in Spanish.^[15] Vice President Mike Pence stated that the caravan received outside funding.^[16]

In a segment on Fareed Zakaria's CNN broadcast January 29, 2017, Mexico's former foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda, states the Mexican government was willing to counter President Donald Trump policy by unleashing drug cartels upon the U.S. border.^[17]

In August 2017 Mexico's Economic Minister Ildefonso Guajardo threatened to flood the U.S. with South American illegal aliens, criminals and gang members as leverage to keep exploiting NAFTA. Reuters reported, "Mexico could pull back on cooperation in migration and security matters if the United States walks away from talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."

Guajardo said, "If they do not treat us well commercially, they should not expect us to treat them well by containing the migration that comes from other regions of the world and crosses Mexico.”^[18]

Spring caravan

In March 2018 Bartolo Fuentes organized a caravan.

In April, Bartolo Fuentes met up with Spring caravan in Mexico.

Irineo Mujica led the caravan to the San Ysidro point entry at Tiajuana.

"Soon, very soon, after the victory of our movement, we will defend migrants all over the American continent and the migrants of the world who, by necessity, must abandon their towns to find life in the United States. It’s a human right we will defend."^[19]

Fall caravan

Organizing

On Saturday October 13, 2018 Bartolo Fuentes left the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras with 700 people, carrying banners with anti-Honduran government slogans. Fuentes previously organized a caravan from Honduras on March 25, 2018, which he joined up with in Mexico on April 8. In the town of Cofradia, Fuentes provided buses to move people to Santa Rosa de Copan. In that city Fuentes was assisted by people to assemble a larger group in the town's sports center. Fuentes restarted the march leading in his vehicle, while the mayor provided buses to carry the people to Agua Caliente. The deception of organizers was apparent, assuring the people that by boarding the buses they could finish the route.

On Sunday October 14, the caravan arrived in Ocotepeque and were housed in the Sports Center, the House of Culture, and the Lions Club. The Human Mobility Pastoral of the Episcopal Conference of Churches ecpressed concern for the safety and protection of people and warned of the dangers children will face on the route, which the organizers ignored.^[20] The same day the U.S. embassy issued a statement warning migrants they are traveling under false promises of entry into the United States made by those seeking to exploit their countrymen.

Trump responds

On Monday October 15 Bartolo Fuentes acknowledged in interviews with national and international media that the caravan began to be planned in the city of El Progreso with members of the Libre Party (Free Party). Fuentes says, "There are organizers in Tegucigalpa and Ceiba. It was about 20 people who coordinated with other people who joined in." Fuentes confirms they will cross into Mexico.

The government of Guatemala alerted the public of the deception of the organizers, and expressed concern about the "conditions in which adolescents and children are traveling." Guatemala warns "it rejects movements organized for illegal purposes that manipulate or distort human rights for private purposes." The organizers however continued to use social media to induce more people to join under false promises and deceptions.

President Donald Trump reacted on Twitter, "If the large caravan of people going to the United States does not stop and return to Honduras, no more money will be given effective right now."

On Tuesday October 16, Guatemala arrested Bartolo Fuentes.

The Human Mobility Pastoral warns the majority of people mobilized under deception do not meet the requirements for asylum. Trump tweets "anyone who enters the United States illegally will be arrested and detained before being sent back to their country."

On Wednesday October 27, the government of Mexico issued a statement that anyone entering Mexico without proper documentation will be arrested and returned to their country of origin. Several Hondurans returned to their country. The United States embassy published a video asking people to "return to their country. You are bring deceived by false promises on the part of leaders with POLITICAL AND CRIMINAL ends."

Honduran Foreign Minister Maria Delores Aguero stated: "We strongly condemn this irregular mobilization which has been incited under deception, which has subjected our people to suffering, for which we have requested the Public Prosecutor's Office to carry out the corresponding investigations... This has triggered a series of migratory tensions... which have had a negative impact on the public, private, social, and commercial spheres...We call to join in protecting the life, physical integrity, and dignity of the people...so they are not exposed to trafficking, sexual and commercial exploitation, and various violations of their human rights."^[21]

Crashing the Mexican border

Migrant caravan clashes with Mexican border police.

On October 18, 2018 a few hundred Mexican police faced off against a crowd of about 2,000. Chaos erupted at the border town of Tecun Uman. Migrants breached the border gate and rushed toward the border bridge into Mexico. Mexican police fought back with tear gas, and the organizer of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, Irineo Mujica was arrested. Mujica is an American from Phoenix.^[22]

The heavily financed horde overwhelmed the token resistance from the Mexican police and advanced north toward the Southern U.S. border. The Associated Press described a “growing army of migrants resumes march toward US.”^[23] The group has been enjoined by ideological comrades from within Mexico. The group claims to be fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, yet the group deployed violence against the Mexican police who were vastly outnumbered.

After reaching the Mexican town of Tapanatepec some began heeding the warnings of the U.S. and Mexican government and began turning back. On Saturday October 27, 2018 the town was distributing sandwiches and water when a man with a megaphone asked people to wait their turn. He was attacked and beaten. Police rescued and took him to a hospital for treatment.

MS-13 and others

By October 21, reports estimated the number of economic migrants at between 7,200 and 10,000. The numbers seemingly doubled and tripled upon entering Mexico. No further resistance was met once passed the border. Migrants from Haiti, Congo, Sri Lanka, Angola, Cameroon, and Bangladesh have swelled the ranks.^[24] The crowd is mostly men, ages 16-40. There are MS-13 gang members among them.^[25] The caravan was now over two miles long.

Child trafficers arrested

Guatemalan authorities rescued seven unaccompanied minors from human smugglers working inside the caravan. The smugglers were arrested and a broader investigation into criminal activity in the caravan continued.^[26]

Second caravan

Around 600 people in the second group broke through border barriers in the Guatemala town of Tecun Uman. Mexican Interior Secretary Alfonso Navarrete Prida said some of the attackers carried guns and firebombs.

Third caravan

On Sunday October 28, 2018 about 300 Salvadorans departed from San Salvador hoping to make their way to the U.S.^[27]

Funding

Feeding a crowd of 7,000 people over a two month trek covering thousands of miles costs money, believe it or not. Not to mention emergency medical treatment, etc. The group is well financed and funded.

Honduran President Juan Hernández told Vice President Mike Pence that the group is being financed from Venezuela, which can barely feed its own people right now under its despotic socialist regime.

See also

• Border wall

References