Mounds of garbage, squalor and mess: Caravan moves on, leaving Tijuana its detritus

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December 3, 2018
Mounds of garbage, squalor and mess: Caravan moves on, leaving Tijuana its detritus
By Monica Showalter

The caravan has moved on, with Tijuana authorities now housing the 7,000 Central American migrants in a far more civilized compound than the squalid Superdome after Katrina-style housing they had occupied.

Daily Wire's excellent Ryan Saavedra has a report on what the place looked like, writing:

    Caravan migrant


Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018

[Sanguine]

Good point:

It rather speaks to a lack of social capital to see people unable to clean up after themselves.  Tea Party groups always cleaned up after themselves, while Occupy protesters famously didn't.  The failure to clean up points to a lack of ownership (even of one's own behavior), and a refusal to care about how one's behavior affects a community's surroundings.  When a person just uses resources without caring about how he treats them, that is what early free-market economists called "the tragedy of the commons."  People who own things keep them nice and maintained.  People who don't and who expect others to bear the cost usually just let them go to hell.  You see that a lot in places where people don't have property rights, as economist Hernando de Soto noted in "The Mystery of Capital," which speaks to the reality of being outsiders.