Zippyjuan
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So, I read that the caravan is now at 15,000 people? Is that accurate?
Doesn't seem to be. Though the election is just a couple of days away and the politicians need to scare as many Americans as possible so they may be hyping things. Trump does want 15,000 armed troops to stop 3,000 unarmed civilians. That is probably the number you saw.
This is from a few days ago with more leaving all the time:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/migra...demand-for-mexico-to-provide-buses-has-failed
It has been a tumultuous journey so far for the leading caravan, which is now estimated to contain around 4,000 people – down from a peak of more than 7,000.
The caravan crossed into Mexico from Guatemala around Oct. 19 and, at the start of this week, appeared to be pushing northward at a faster pace with the help of free rides being offered to them in trucks and other vehicles.
But the arduous nature of the trek – walking day by day to new towns and cities and sleeping on the streets – has been eating away at the migrants’ morale from the outset. The request for bus travel for all also indicates an increased sense of urgency amongst the caravan’s members to make it to the U.S. border – despite thousands of American troops awaiting them there and a steady drumbeat of warnings from President Trump and U.S. officials to turn around.
"Of the friends that I have been with, all want to go back," Hasiel Isamar Hernandez, a 28-year-old mother of three from Honduras, told the Associated Press days ago. The caravan originated in that country as many are trying to flee its pervasive poverty and violence.
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