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Rstrstx

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6. They do most of the caravans, BUT
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 02:15 PM
Jan 2019

I recall reading somewhere that they weren't responsible for the infamous one that received all the hype right before the election. Usually they organize them in the spring so when they arrive and have to disperse it's nice and warm up here. This one is a little early but if it's been warmer than normal down there or they think they'll need more time it would make some sense to get a head start.

What doesn't make sense, though, is one that started last fall, knowing full well they would arrive when the winter was beginning. Call me paranoid but I think that one was organized for political purposes.

I too was trying to find out more information about the pre-election caravan and it was surprisingly hard, nobody seemed to know how it got started or who organized it. Previous caravans had managed to stay low-key but that one seemed like it was intentionally organized to drum up emotions right before the election. After the election the story went away here in the US but Mexico kept covering it (unfavorably for the most part) for weeks. In particular, Facebook in Mexico lit up with memes about all the kinds of trouble the migrants were causing.

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