So much for 'refuge.' Caravan army turns up its nose at Mexico's generous offer of asylum

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SOURCE: AMERICAN THINKER

URL: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/so_much_for_refuge_caravan_army_turns_up_its_nose_at_mexicos_generous_offer_of_asylum.html

Monica Showalter


If there's anything that points to the political nature of the thousands-strong migrant caravan heading north to the U.S., it's the migrants' rejection of Mexico's generous offer of political asylum, along with jobs, medical care, and big benefit packages.  According to this Associated Press report, they'd rather confront Trump.

Migrants traveling in a caravan through southern Mexico have rejected a proposal by President Enrique Pena Nieto that they apply for refugee status in the country and obtain benefits.

Coordinators of the caravan read out the president's plan called "You are at home."  Migrants shouted "Gracias!" but "No, we're heading north!"

Activist Irineo Mujica of the Pueblo sin Fronteras group is supporting the migrants in the caravan.  He told the group that 80 percent of those who apply for protective status would be rejected and deported.

NBC reports:

Sitting at the edge of the edge of the town square, 58-year-old Oscar Sosa of San Pedro Sula, Honduras concurred.

"Our goal is not to remain in Mexico," Sosa said.  "Our goal is to make it to the (U.S).  We want passage, that's all."

There are significantly mixed reports about that, suggesting that the Mexican government isn't on all one page as to what its people intend to do.



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