CBN News Embeds with Caravan: UN Involvement, Foreigners and Felons
Article subtitle:
There will be a lot more caravans behind this one because everybody is ready to take advantage of the infrastructure being created by this caravan
Article publisher:
CBN News
Article date:
27 October 2018
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
... CBN News asked our contributing correspondent Chuck Holton to check it out. He caught up with the caravan in the Mexican city of Tapachula.
“... First of all, the people in this caravan are not being paid to join the caravan. Their payoff comes when they get to the US,” Holton said.
Holton spoke to numerous people in the caravan who said they joined the trek because they saw advertising for it on social media or heard about it on the news. He says the caravan has been organized by opposition political elements within Honduras who are supported by Venezuela, as well as a consortium of left-wing pro-immigration groups.
“They are however being facilitated and enabled by groups like the UN, by groups like other NGOs and by church groups who are feeding them and providing them support on their journey north,” he said.
“Now the other questions have been: ‘Are there felons, are there bad guys in this group?’ And I can tell you it didn’t take me long to find four or five right away who are absolute felons who are coming north to try to get back into the United States,” Holton discovered....
People are also asking about whether or not there are so-called “exotics” in the caravan – people who are not from Central America. Holton went into a restaurant where he quickly found a young man from Somalia, which is in eastern Africa....
The Somali man revealed he began his journey north from Brazil. Holton also spoke with others from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Eritrea and Pakistan who are joining the caravan to the US....
A Honduran migrant named Judy said, “... A lot more people would probably choose to go back home if it wasn’t being made easier to get to the United States by a lot of well-meaning groups who are helping these migrants,” Holton said.
“And we can know one thing for sure and that’s that there will be a lot more caravans behind this one because everybody is ready to take advantage of the infrastructure being created by this caravan. And so we have to think hard about how we are going to help these people but also help ourselves.”
'We're heading north!' Migrants nix offer to stay in Mexico, MSN, October 27, 2018:
... Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has announced what he called the "You are at home" plan, offering shelter, medical attention, schooling and jobs to Central Americans in Chiapas and Oaxaca states if migrants apply, calling it a first step toward permanent refugee status. Authorities said more than 1,700 had already applied for refugee status....
"Thank you!" they yelled as they voted to reject the offer in a show of hands. They then added: "No, we're heading north!"...