Op-ed: Mexico Is Holding Back a Massive Wave of Illegal Immigrants that Will Break After the Election
Here’s what I learned walking among and interviewing a caravan of 1,000 migrants about Mexico’s plans after November 5
By Todd Bensman on October 31, 2024
TAPACHULA, Mexico – A tip led me to 40 kilometers north of this down-at-heel border city, by rental car, until I spotted the unmistakable sight: a 1,000-strong caravan of migrants marching by foot along Mexico Highway 200 for hundreds of yards.
Men, women, children, and babies bobbed and weaved together in an elongated, colorful human pack. I spent the day walking among and interviewing them, the only reporter there.
Just the week before, a 2,000-strong migrant caravan from Tapachula did catch some fleeting American media attention, and next came a massive third one marching out of Tapachula which became a full-scale U.S. news story as the American presidential election campaigns draw to their climactic Nov. 5 end, with illegal immigration a top issue in the election’s outcome.
American news media are warning that migrant caravans are about to start crashing over the U.S. border, but in my interviews, I discovered that story was totally, wildly wrong.
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