Another Migrant Caravan Of 15,000 Is Forming

Something needs to be done. This is so beyond out of hand.

According to recent reports, another migrant caravan is preparing to leave Honduras. There are an estimated 15,000 people involved in this one. I repeat, 15,000.

“They say they are even bigger and stronger than the last caravan,” said Irma Garrido, a member of the migrant advocacy group Reactiva Tijuana Foundation.

However, word has it this caravan isn’t planning on traveling straight to the Tijuana-San Diego border. I guess they’ve heard that the US isn’t just letting people march on in, so they’re divulging a different plan. They’re planning on staying in Mexico.

Garrido said this new, larger caravan will likely be joined by more people in El Salvador and in Guatemala, but she said they don’t plan on coming straight to the Tijuana-San Diego border, where resources are already stretched nearly to a breaking point.

“They will stay in the south of Mexico in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Their aim is to request work there,” she said.

Meanwhile, Mexico is starting to wonder about its own ability to manage all of these migrants– including the individuals waiting in border cities like Tijuana, to which I ask: “How does it feel?”

Via WaPo:

Mexico is not prepared to provide housing and other services for what could be thousands of migrants, according to officials and migrant advocates.

“Disaster is the only word that comes to me,” said Pat Murphy, a Catholic priest who runs Casa del Migrante, a large shelter in Tijuana. “We are already living in such a tenuous situation now.”

Officials in other border cities express similar concerns. A major shelter in Ciudad Juárez, also called Casa del Migrante, announced this week that it did not have enough resources to accept any more newcomers. Some federal officials are also worried. After Mexico’s Foreign Ministry announced last week that the country had reluctantly agreed to host the migrants during the U.S. asylum process, the head of the national immigration agency declared it would be impossible to do so in the short term.

Something needs to be done. And NO. The answer doesn’t involve throwing more foreign aid to these craphole countries, so can we not?

h/t San Diego Union-Tribune