Some 2000 miles north of Hull, the lodges and "static" caravans are packed, and the touring caravans are squeezed in tight.
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"We have right now two big caravans coming up from Guatemala, massive caravans, walking right through Mexico," the president said last week.
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But the size of recent caravans has become "uncontrollable," said Irineo Mujica, a member of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a transnational group that accompanied earlier caravans in Mexico.
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The President thanked the military for its assistance on the border amid earlier migrant caravans, adding that thousands of migrants are currently moving toward the US in caravans.
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The president has also bragged about how effectively his administration has prevented migrant caravans from entering the country while claiming that a wall is needed to stop migrant caravans.
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Indeed, many of the people in the two caravans now moving through southern Mexico say they most likely would have migrated whether or not the caravans had taken shape.
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Trump earlier tweeted that Mexico should turn back the caravans before they reach the U.S. border, and reiterated his belief that the caravans were a way for Central American countries to "dump" undesirables in the U.S. Thousands more migrants are expected to join the estimated 5,000 already in Tijuana in coming days, as more caravans reach the border.
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Two smaller caravans have also set off in recent days.
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Caravans are organized for safe travel and joining is free.
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Go deeper: How social media is fueling the migrant caravans
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Hawaii forbids motor caravans, parades, entertainment troupes and prize giveaways.
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There are 95 Dodge Caravans cleaner than my church shoes.
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The recall covers Dodge Grand Caravans from 2011 and 2012.
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Camel caravans did not appear until about 3,000 years ago.
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Now, two more caravans are on their way, as well.
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He blamed Jews for helping migrant caravans On his Gab.
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Trump suggested, without providing proof, the caravans could be hiding extremists.
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"They don't put their best people in these caravans," Trump said.
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Caravans, although smaller, have been organized as far back as 2008.
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Such caravans are meant to help migrants travel through Mexico safely.
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The migrants have traveled through Mexico in large groups, or caravans.
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This time cranes and construction crews are replacing caravans and camels.
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The largest caravans tend to take place during the Easter season.
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Some residents claim the caravans have brought an increase in crime.
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Why have the immigrant caravans marching toward our southern border stopped?
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Fears about imported diseases are common among critics of migrant caravans.
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I mean, we have caravans coming in right now, 12,000 people.
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Nieve went straight onto the grass between trucks and camping caravans.
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But many of these "facts," like Soros masterminding immigrant caravans, are false.
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Such caravans have usually numbered in the hundreds and have passed unnoticed.
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Caravans of this kind usually number in the hundreds and pass unnoticed.
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Democrats audibly groaned when he started stoking fears about migrant caravans. Sen.
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Fueled by attention from Trump, the caravans have attracted widespread media coverage.
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"They've got a lot of rough people in those caravans," he added.
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President Trump's warnings of an imminent invasion from new caravans is overstated.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Wednesday that "Honduras is doing nothing" to stop migrant caravans from coming toward the US, less than a day after Vice President Mike Pence praised Honduras for its efforts to stop caravans.
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Trump has argued that the recent caravans are a threat to national security.
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Her music videos luxuriated in clichés such as campfires, caravans and crystal balls.
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Trump made the caravans a hot button issue ahead of this month's midterms.
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Between the lines: The "caravans" began primarily as protests a few years ago.
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On Tuesday, Trump talked about caravans during his State of the Union speech.
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Mock-Georgian houses feature large paved driveways, to accommodate the caravans parked outside.
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There is no evidence he has played any role in financing the caravans.
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Scott Walker made no mention of caravans or fake news or foreign invasions.
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It originally numbered fewer than 200 people — in line with most past caravans.
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By mid-2019, a number of Central American caravans were traveling across Mexico.
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Qatar and Saudi Arabia have underwritten minicities, as caravans and tents slowly empty.
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Obviously, it's all because of those caravans of immigrants coming to the border.
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Residents felt like Christmas had come when the caravans rumbled into their town.
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" Immigration Migrant caravans "Guatemala, which has been forming Caravans and sending large numbers of people, some with criminal records, to the United States, has decided to break the deal they had with us on signing a necessary Safe Third Agreement.
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However, the US intelligence community made little mention of migrant caravans in its World Wide Threat Assessment released last week and Trump's senior most intelligence officials did not mention caravans a single time while testifying about the report before Congress.
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Other groups also sponsor caravans, but none since 230 had approached this one's size.
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Migrant caravans have been heading to the United States for more than a decade.
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Caravans make for evocative b-roll: masses of people pressing toward the United States.
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There are two caravans a week and trucks have to pay to be included.
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Britain is now the largest market in Europe for touring caravans (pulled by cars).
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It is now guarded around-the-clock by Palestinian police, quartered in caravans outside.
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The reality is that these "caravans" have been happening for more than five years.
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These caravans pose a serious national security threat and must be treated as such.
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Very few members of the original caravans actually made it to the U.S. border.
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Ever since, smaller "caravans" have been setting off from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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Organizers stress that there is a long tradition of such caravans during Holy Week.
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Caravans can bring hundreds of asylum seekers to one place over a few days.
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As we speak, large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States.
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For those traveling outside migrant caravans, that trip can cost as much as $803,280.
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But Trump suggested, without providing proof, the caravans could be hiding "Middle Eastern" terrorists.
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There is no evidence Mr. Soros has played any role in financing the caravans.
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The sound of a Jet Ski, from the beach in front of the caravans.
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In one post, Bowers claimed Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans.
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Caravans transporting fleets of small boats have also arrived in the Carolinas from Louisiana.
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Such car caravans moving south into Mexico have been rare over the past decade.
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But lawyers in Tijuana say that changed after the caravans started arriving in November.
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Why it matters: U.S.-Honduran relations are currently tense over immigration issues, specifically migrant caravans.
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Thousands more could then arrive in border towns as the bulk of the caravans arrive.
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"There was probably lots of movement, with llama caravans bringing in farm produce," he said.
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More visible are "caravans" of hundreds, or even thousands, of migrants, usually starting in Honduras.
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He also accused the nations of having "set up" migrant caravans and sent them north.
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Or, put another way, ShareACamper might be considered as an 'Airbnb for motorhomes and caravans'.
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It is made of a cluster of caravans provided by UNICEF on Al-Zuhoor's outskirts.
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There is nothing humane about actively encouraging the misery, violence, and squalor of the caravans.
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"Democrats have become the party of caravans and crime," Trump said during Monday's Tupelo rally.
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In the plaza outside, afternoon sunlight fell across cobblestones on which horse caravans once trod.
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To some it seemed like a way of life, I saw caravans, families and campfires.
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Those Central American caravans, about which Trump tries to inspire so much panic and bigotry?
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They have joined forces in "caravans" for safety and to attract attention to their plight.
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Byam's foreign Airstream Caravans promoted fun, but also diplomatic relations during the 1950s, and 60s.
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Smaller caravans of several hundred people each are reportedly also headed toward the United States.
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We see women in kerchiefs and long dresses as the sun sets beside their caravans.
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" He followed that tweet with another: "The Caravans are a disgrace to the Democrat Party.
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More people, including more caravans, are continuing to emigrate from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
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Thousands of U.S. troops and militia groups are at the border in anticipation of these caravans.
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Trump says Mexico has 'the absolute power' to stop 'Caravans' of migrants — here's what he's missing
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Many aliens travel in large caravans or other large organized groups, and many travel with children.
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"The smuggling business became quite sophisticated as a result of competition from the caravans," Selee says.
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Caravans were first organized to highlight the plight of immigrants making the perilous journey through Mexico.
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After quitting the brigade, Bedia joined the military caravans that supplied military units to that country.
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Mr Balta even has plans to turn the fuselage of his 747 into caravans and houses.
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So whether you are into football, computers, cars, or even caravans, there is something for you.
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The project is being sponsored by Nissan, whose Nissan Caravans will be used in the pilot.
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Historically, they lived in caravans in encampments on the side of the road or in fields.
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Unless we take action, there will be more caravans next year and each year after that.
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Migrant families still feel compelled to make the often dangerous northward trek, now in large caravans.
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Just beyond Mexico lie the three countries from which highly publicized "caravans" originated in recent months.
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If past caravans from Central America serve as an indicator, however, this is probably a bluff.
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" On Wednesday, Owens tweeted: "Caravans, fake bomb threats—these leftists are going ALL OUT for midterms.
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"As we speak, large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States," he said.
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The migrant caravans present Lopez Obrador with an international political crisis even before he takes office.
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And it would more than double the number of people thought to be in the caravans.
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We'll need to anticipate caravans, where cars will link up to each other to save energy.
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This bridge is the main crossing for migrant caravans on their way to the United States.
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Over the years, such caravans have usually numbered in the hundreds and have mostly passed unnoticed.
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This very violence is why women choose to travel in caravans, to achieve safety in numbers.
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Next to the Earthship, families have set up caravans, tiny houses, and yurts to live in.
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"You have caravans coming up that look a lot larger than it's reported actually," he said.
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On Friday, Trump accused the nations of having "set up" migrant caravans and sent them north.
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That May, caravans of protesters converged on Washington for Dr. King's Poor People's Campaign for economic justice.
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Caravans made up of thousands of illegal aliens falsely seeking asylum have grown over the past year.
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"Right now we have two big caravans coming up from Guatemala walking right through Mexico," he added.
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Remember that many people in these caravans have no intention of making it to the United States.
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When the first of the current wave of caravans left San Pedro Sula in Honduras on Oct.
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This one moves at the same pace as the Caravans', but it's got more dimensions, more heft.
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In several tweets, Mr. Trump referred to "caravans" of immigrants headed toward the United States' southern border.
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In all, the caravans carried around 8,20193 migrants to the border, with most ending up in Tijuana.
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But officials said it was aimed primarily at several thousand migrants traveling north through Mexico in caravans.
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He has complained about drug dealers, gangs and members of Central American caravans pouring across the border.
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Mr. Galán linked the migrant caravans to the country's endemic violence and corruption, not just economic factors.
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Hardly. Roxanne Jones: His warnings about immigrant "caravans" and self-praise for criminal justice reform were infuriating.
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By day they walk about 15 miles, and by night they sleep in rented caravans or hotels.
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She briskly navigated a maze of muddy alleys before arriving at a group of old camping caravans.
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Trump called attention to the caravans and touted his deployment of additional troops to the southern border.
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Cahana said she was ultimately denied entry to Mexico, where she hoped to continue covering migrant caravans.
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They typically live in caravans, moving regularly en masse with their community; some live at more permanent sites.
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Back in the day, the most intrepid Americans hopped into caravans and settled into the great open prairie.
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He told everyone who would listen that they have begged for permission from the coalition to target caravans.
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By all accounts, the caravans have consisted of people who decide for themselves that they want to migrate.
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The Empty Quarter was once the passage for camel caravans carrying precious frankincense across the southern Arabian peninsula.
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We call on the governments of Central America to ensure that migrant caravans are allowed to remain together.
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The migrant caravan will be exploited to create midterm caravans of Trump voters to go to the polls.
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" In a statement Thursday, Pompeo said that he, Nielsen and Ebrard had met "to discuss the migrant caravans.
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Nielsen tweeted six times about migrant caravans; she has never mentioned the far-right terror threat on Twitter.
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Some sailed down the river; others rode south from Yunnan Province in mule caravans ferrying silver and silk.
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In the closing weeks, Trump tweeted madly about caravans of diseased and criminal elements massing on our borders.
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Despite the uncertainty, many migrants preferred to wait to request legal status before continuing their journey in caravans.
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He prays for migrant caravans, for the Venezuelan people, for people facing violence in his native El Salvador.
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Past caravans have generally diminished in size as they made their way north toward the United States border.
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For centuries, Agadez has been an important way-stop for smugglers, migrants and camel caravans traversing the Sahara.
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Thousands more could arrive in border towns over the coming days as the bulk of the caravans arrive.
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The history of the United States is a history of caravans arriving from different parts of the world.
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But you're right that Trump will try to turn Nancy Pelosi into the new version of immigrant caravans.
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Traders stopped in Agadez while crossing the desert in miles-long caravans carrying salt, gold, ivory, and slaves.
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On Wednesday, Guatemala's new President Alejandro Giammattei suggested Mexico would prevent any caravans from reaching the United States.
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The combination of families, large groups and caravans has stressed CBP resources "to the very edge," said Perez.
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"The Cockroach" is so toothless and wan that it may drive his readers away in long apocalyptic caravans.
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That and widespread aggression toward gay and transgender people pushed many, like Suchite, to join recent migrant caravans.
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Canada, accepting the inevitable, cedes the lower half of its territory to migrant caravans from the United States.
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During his presidency, Trump has cited caravans as reason for his signature border wall and strict immigration policies.
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He promoted a conspiracy theory that Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans in Central America.
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Bowers also posted xenophobic content, claiming Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans in Latin America.
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He has warned of "caravans" of migrants approaching the border and called on Congress to enact tougher regulations.
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Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the group that Mujica works with, organized buses to move people in caravans last year.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has declared the caravans an "invasion," and threatened to close down the Mexico-U.
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The snow piled up around their tepees, but they dug in as caravans of supporters and journalists drove away.
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According to the Times, the migrants travel in caravans for protection against the criminals that stalk their trip north.
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Police motorcycles, their sirens blaring, surged through gridlocked traffic as caravans of entrepreneurs and investors tried to keep up.
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"These new caravans have helped Trump make a point and support the further militarization at the border," she said.
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We are sending a simple message to the lawless caravans and to the illegal trespassers marching toward our border.
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But, the administration views this deal as a possible breakthrough that could deter future migrant caravans from Central America.
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According to the Times, the migrants travel in caravans for protection against the criminals that stalk their trip north.
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Caravans were among the first big-ticket items to go in the credit crunch, but recently growth has returned.
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Now there is a huge parking lot for cars and caravans, as some people camp out over the weekend.
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That publicity raised the profile of caravans as a potentially safer way to reach Mexico or the United States.
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Today, they're happily enjoying a few of their choice vintages outside the caravans where they live on the vineyard.
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The caravans, as Trump calls them, are being used by Republicans to frighten Americans of a non-existent threat.
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First, acknowledge that caravans of migrants just can't show up at our borders and expect to be let in.
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Many are traveling as part of so-called caravans, large groups that trekked from Central America, largely on foot.
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The Trump administration has previously sounded off against migrant caravans attempting to reach the border and enter the country.
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The Trump administration has sounded off against the caravans of migrants that have traversed Mexico to reach the border.
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But even the migrants were aware that other caravans following their path might not meet with the same welcome.
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Though the current group appeared to be among the largest, two caravans last year each drew about 350 migrants.
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Last month, President Trump called for up to 15,000 troops to guard the border against several approaching migrant caravans.
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Cutting off what little aid they get, as Mr. Trump has threatened to do, will only create more caravans.
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To get to the disaster area, they drove caravans of trucks bearing all of their own supplies — including boats.
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From April 2: Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large "Caravans" of people enter their country.
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Two caravans were mobilized in 2017 with fewer people and many of their cases have yet to be resolved.
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The caravans hardly represent unprecedented migration from the Northern Triangle; they are an innovative response to a humanitarian crisis.
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For two days, the president has warned that "caravans" of immigrants are heading toward the U.S. from Central America.
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Many years after he had researched "Caravans," James Michener was asked which country he would most want to revisit.
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" The president has also denounced caravans of migrants heading for the border as "invaders" and gang members as "animals.
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But the appeal of caravans grew as word spread about them through Central American neighborhoods, social media and WhatsApp.
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It turned out that in Germany, living in caravans on a goat pasture does not come without legal problems.
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Rebellon said she was overwhelmed when she saw migrant caravans arrive in Tijuana earlier this year and in 2018.
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Now that Washington is at an impasse over the president's border wall, Mr. Trump has been talking caravans again.
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While such caravans have occurred semiregularly over the years, this one has become a hot topic ahead of the Nov.
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He said "large organized caravans" were "on the march to the United States" and troops were needed to stop them.
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Last year's caravans, which arrived in Tijuana, highlighted the long waits and difficult conditions people were forced to wait in.
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Fuentes first learned about the phony account from Irineo Mujica, who represents Pueblo Sin Fronteras and has organized previous caravans.
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Republicans wound up following Trump on a nationwide campaign about migrant caravans, MS-13 gangs, Confederate statues, and sanctuary cities.
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"More troops being sent to the Southern Border to stop the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans," Trump tweeted.
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ShareACamper, the Germany-headquartered peer-to-peer rental platform for motorhomes and caravans, has raised €2 million in seed funding.
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As recently as last year the half-derelict site was filled with rusty sheds, old caravans and broken wooden pallets.
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Anti-immigrant postings on social media have been increasing across the country, as four different caravans make their way north.
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"Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large 'Caravans' of people enter their country," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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These caravans have been used in the past largely to draw attention to people's plights in their native countries. 3.
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It also could have been a rest stop for caravans crossing the desert to trade, or a spot to worship.
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Officials also let the large and frequent migrant caravans entering from Central America to move relatively unimpeded across Mexican territory.
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"It's why as secretary of state, I've been very involved in these discussions" about the migrant caravans moving through Mexico.
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Earlier this month, President Trump called for up to 15,000 troops to guard the border against several approaching migrant caravans.
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His administration has also largely accommodated the caravans, allowing undocumented migrants traveling en masse to move through Mexico essentially unfettered.
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Such caravans have angered President Trump, who has tried to compel his regional counterparts to step up their enforcement efforts.
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Until these states are capable of protecting vulnerable citizens, women and teenagers will continue to join the caravans of migrants.
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He repeatedly called on Mexico to stop "caravans" of immigrants and urged the U.S. Congress to pass stricter immigration laws.
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Headaches all around: Early this morning, President Trump pressed Mexico to stop immigrant "caravans" trying to reach the United States.
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I have flown on Air Force One with them and commercial jets and private jets and car caravans and Winnebagos.
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Record numbers of desperate families, fleeing violence, corruption and extreme poverty, have been arriving in caravans to our southern border.
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Some people traveled with caravans; others provided aid or legal support for the migrants, but did not travel with them.
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Osuna said that an additional 1,260 migrants are expected in coming days as the main body of the caravans arrive.
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Previous leaders of our country committed sins; we must pay for those sins by welcoming an endless chain of migrant caravans.
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Around 3,000 people from the first of the caravans have arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, across the border from San Diego, California.
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Many of the migrants in the caravans, which include women and children, say they are fleeing gang violence and poverty. However.
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More troops being sent to the Southern Border to stop the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans, into our Country.
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In April, Mexican authorities carried out raids on two caravans in Chiapas, resulting in the detention of 250 and 371 people.
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The group also uses the caravans to highlight the violence, poverty, and political oppression people fleeing Central American face back home.
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The caravans are also used as a way to highlight the reasons people are leaving their countries in the first place.
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According to The New York Times, the migrants travel in caravans for protection against the criminals that stalk their trip north.
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That seems likely, especially now that regular caravans offer migrants the chance to travel in the safety of a large group.
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Trump has declared the caravans an "invasion," and has sent some 2810,22 troops to "harden" the border, including with barbed wire.
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Trump has encouraged Mexico to break up the caravans and tweeted that he would not accept the migrants into the country.
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The group of migrants were part of the so-called caravans migrating north through Central America to the U.S.–Mexico border.
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When Trump started talking about migrant caravans, he simply took the substance of his lottery accusation and transferred it over. Presto!
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Such caravans have been something of an annual event for years and have mostly happened without much fanfare or international attention.
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On Friday he announced changes to policies that will limit migrants' ability to seek asylum, a move targeted at the caravans.
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He also said that new caravans were beginning to form as recently as a few days ago, originating in El Salvador.
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Those in the caravans know this, since they are generally accompanied on their trek by organizers who lay out their options.
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A new concrete mural on the main road next to the hot springs hotel depicts the ancient caravans that traveled west.
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It was another notable sign that Mexico's approach to caravans, and to migrants in general, has changed over the past year.
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But let's not forget the never-ending range of towable caravans and larger motorhomes for the likes of Hymer and Fiat.
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"Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large 'Caravans' of people enter their country," he said in a tweet.
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"Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large 'Caravans' of people enter their country," he said in another tweet.
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DHS is tracking two caravans, one massive one with thousands of migrants and another, smaller one that formed in El Salvador.
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The Salvadoran government estimates that some 2,700 people have left the country through half a dozen caravans over the past year.
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In recent days, Trump has been highlighting "caravans" of immigrants headed to the U.S. through Mexico after a Fox News report.
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Trump has called migrant caravans bound for the United States "invasions" and has threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico.
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The Department of Homeland Security is currently tracking three migrant caravans containing 12,000 people moving toward the border, Mr. Rood said.
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Mr. Trump has excoriated the governments of Central America and Mexico for, he says, not doing enough to stop the caravans.
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At certain seasons, there are also many tourists, trying to maneuver their caravans and motor homes along the winding narrow lanes.
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Mujica and Sanchez, 41, however, are best known as highly visible activists who have longstanding involvement with so-called migrant caravans.
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The big picture: There are an estimated 11,000 migrants mostly from Central America traveling in multiple caravans toward the U.S. right now.
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The lawsuit arrives with less than a week before the midterms, even as the caravans remain weeks away from America's southern border.
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Trump has railed against illegal immigration, including several caravans of migrants from Central America slowly moving on foot toward the U.S. border.
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While such caravans have occurred semi-regularly over the years, this one has become a particularly hot topic ahead of the Nov.
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The New York Times reports that caravans such as this one have happened annually in the past, though usually without much fanfare.
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They must fight the underlying systemic problems that are driving mass migration and caravans and their leadership needs to go further, faster.
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We also get glimpses of Woody Harrelson's Colonel, caravans of military vehicles, and a child that the apes seem to have rescued.
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Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL.
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They were taken to traveler sites in the eastern city of Lincoln and housed in squalid caravans, without running water or toilets.
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It was by connecting with these caravans of pilgrims that North American photographer Troi Anderson was able to observe these intimate ceremonies.
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But he's in awe of the desert tribes' nomadic lifestyle: Fulani herdsmen, or the salt caravans dealing in the Sahara's 'white gold'.
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The New York Times reports that caravans such as this one have happened annually in the past, though usually without much fanfare.
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The migrant caravans departed from San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras with one of the highest murder rates in the world.
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Seven minutes later, Trump followed up on his tweet and called on Mexico to stop the caravans from reaching the United States.
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As we drove back to the station, I noticed caravans of cars, buses, and trucks with colorful banners moving through the streets.
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Caravans of pochtecas , or feather traders, moved through the rain forest as far south as Colombia, exacting feathered tribute from weaker tribes.
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Hundreds of migrants have been camped out for weeks in Mapastepec, where locals say six migrant caravans have arrived since last Easter.
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Concentrations of Central American migrants on Mexico's northern border caused tensions in the city of Tijuana when caravans arrived late last year.
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Why it matters: Those caravans provide the protection of numbers and eliminate many of the dangers and costs associated with hiring smugglers.
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Still, an influx of immigrants at the US-Mexico border with the arrival of caravans appears to have flamed the President's concerns.
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Smith's Caravans might not be the only sunglasses with interchangeable lenses on the market, but for freshwater fishermen, they're tough to beat.
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Migrant caravans, while not new, have become a regular talking point for the President in his case for cracking down on immigration.
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Arasay Sanchez, 33, said she was browsing the internet in a park one day when she saw a story about the caravans.
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To make sure the caravans wouldn't stand out in the landscape, the family painted them green, to blend in with their surroundings.
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Since then, however, a steady stream of large migrant caravans has passed through the area, and the town's patience has worn thin.
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Caravans of them from the region have in recent months fanned tensions between Mexico and U.S. President Donald Trump over border security.
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Caravans fleeing the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are purposefully conspicuous, both in social media and in real life.
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One can imagine camel caravans traveling down this road to the entrance of the city, laden with spices and other precious goods.
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He has referred to caravans as an "invasion," and used the influx of migrants to help justify last month's national emergency declaration.
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More recently, however, illegal migrants have organized into caravans that include large numbers of families and unaccompanied children from Central American countries.
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And they may not be the only ones headed north: other caravans in Central America appear to be following in their footsteps.
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But back home in Honduras, the trials of previous caravans have not been a deterrent for those considering joining the new one.
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The recent phenomenon of caravans of Central American migrants largely consists of people who present themselves to border officials and request asylum.
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Kelly described migrants as "overwhelmingly good people," an implicit rebuke of Trump's warnings of dangerous caravans and the need to curb immigration.
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U.S. President Donald Trump declared the caravans an "invasion," and sent several thousand troops to "harden" the border, including with barbed wire.
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While the Mexican government has noticed and reacted to previous years' caravans, though, the American press and the American government really haven't.
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As other migrant rights advocates have pointed out, the Mexican government tends to redouble its anti-migration efforts after "caravans" come through.
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This was all before the media and political storm created by news of migrant caravans traveling from Central America to the U.S.
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Ahead of the midterm elections, Trump has ratcheted up both his rhetoric and policy proposals on immigration issues, zeroing in on the caravans.
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At first, the aim of those organizing caravans was to draw attention to the criminal assaults that vulnerable migrants endure along the way.
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Officials encouraged migrants to seek asylum in Mexico, but the police have not tried to stop them moving as they have earlier caravans.
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Pueblo Sin Fronteras has helped coordinate migrant caravans for the past several years, although previously they had a maximum of several hundred participants.
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Mexico's Interior Ministry said there are 2228,2401 people now in Mexico who are traveling as part of so-called caravans from Central America.
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A dusty city of 120,000 souls, it was founded a millennium ago for caravans of camels carrying salt and gold to west Africa.
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The gated trailer park had 100 homes, which the girls, in a light Irish lilt, call "caravans," arranged in 10 rows of 10.
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The strategy mirrors his warnings of migrant "caravans" pouring across the border ahead of the 2018 midterm contests, elections where the GOP suffered.
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The caravans are made up of Central American migrants fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries, including Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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But the arrival of hundreds of members of the caravans has stretched to the limit migrant shelters that were already overflowing with people.
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And while each case is different, for migrants who've traveled in caravans to reach the border, the chances of winning asylum are slim.
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Under U.S. supervision, Dipafront officers have installed checkpoints along roads that were last year traveled by thousands of Central American migrants in caravans.
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Rather, by traveling in large numbers, the caravans provide protection for Central Americans who are vulnerable to abuse as they cross through Mexico.
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The group of Central Americans moving toward the U.S. this weekend are reportedly receiving less aid from Mexico's local governments than previous caravans.
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RELATED: Fact-checking Trump's immigration speech Images from previous migrant caravans suggest that women and children make up the majority of the group.
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Last week, he claimed that Latin American governments were deliberately forcing their problem citizens into caravans to foist them upon the United States.
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But some in Ciudad Juarez say news of the caravans also motivated them, giving them the impression the United States was accepting migrants.
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Since early last year, the caravans have been a frequent target of U.S. President Donald Trump as he advocates for stricter immigration policies.
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On immigration, the president has been tough, and the American people want a wall on the southern border to protect against future caravans.
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So "caravans" have become a way for activist groups to call attention to the plight of migrants and to provide strength in numbers.
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Those on the list had traveled with migrant caravans from Central America as they arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum.
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The attendant drama of that — the caravans, presidential tweet storms and misery along the border — made such a story all the more relevant.
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In recent weeks, the Mexican authorities have been breaking up migrant caravans and setting up round-the-clock roadblocks along common routes north.
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Nearly all these migrants, traveling in caravans from Central America, have landed in Tijuana, where the main border entry into Southern California is.
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And, because people flee their homes individually or in families — not in caravans — the problem has largely stayed out of the public eye.
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At the same time, however, new caravans, inspired by the success of the first one, started materializing in Central America and heading north.
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He believed that those in the migrant caravans were violent because they were attempting to leave countries that had high levels of violence.
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US-bound migrant caravans are not uncommon, as Central Americans desperate to escape violence and poverty band together for safety on the road.
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Days later, another man, motivated by conspiracy theories about migrant caravans, opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11.
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President Trump, and vast parts of the federal government, have been consumed with caravans, walls and a border "crisis" since at least Oct. 16.
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Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit said it mapped financial transactions of people along a route traveled by "migrant caravans" since October 2018.
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Trump also doubled down on his calls for the so-called caravans of Central American migrants not to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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U.S. President Donald Trump called the caravans an "invasion" and has made stemming immigration a centerpiece of his administration and 2020 re-election campaign.
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Ilhan Omar and caravans of migrants who travel through Mexico to seek refuge in the US, a BuzzFeed News review of their accounts reveals.
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Trump went on to baselessly accuse the governments of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala of conspiring to send migrant caravans toward America's southern border.
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There are now around 500,000 settlers in 130 settlements that range from gated communities and small cities to lone caravans on top of hilltops.
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Caravans of thousands of Central Americans have been making their way through Mexico, and many have landed at the southern U.S. border in Tijuana.
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Without providing evidence, Trump said on Friday the countries had "set up" caravans of migrants in order to export them to the United States.
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Trump has repeatedly vowed to stop the Central American caravans, sending troops to reinforce the border and describing the migrants as an invading force.
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The accord includes a focus on "preventing the formation of new migrant caravans that set out to reach the United States," according to DHS.
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It feels like I have been transported to the distant past, where spices were transported en masse via caravans to city vendors like Yuqing.
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And Trump has also tried to turn the migrant caravan into a crisis, when in fact migrant caravans travel to the border every year.
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They are driving past the caravan park again now, where the smooth curved roofs of the caravans glow with reflected moonlight, white like fingernails.
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Trump, who called Mexicans rapists and murderers during his presidential campaign, now posts videos on Twitter depicting caravans of criminals rushing toward the border.
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The ranks of the caravans this fall eventually ballooned to more than 7,000 with groups fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua joining the march.
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Trump describes the members of the "migrant caravans" as if they are violent criminals who are coming to the country to do us harm.
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Caravans of migrants from Central America have made their way to the United States border before, but this is the largest in recent memory.
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It helped facilitate the rise of Islam in West Africa in the 9th century, and welcomed salt caravans from the neighboring town of Bilma.
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On Monday morning, he was at it again: Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large "Caravans" of people enter their country.
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The family set up shop in the seaside neighborhood of Samatya in Constantinople, where metal arrived on camel caravans and donkeys powered primitive machines.
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Advocacy groups, in the past, have used the caravans to draw attention to the migrants' plight and the state of affairs in their homelands.
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Some troops have been assisting CBP agents in closing border crossings between California and Tijuana, where one of the large migrant caravans has encamped.
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It was yet another instance in which Mexico has sought to clamp down on Central American migrant caravans arriving at its border with Guatemala.
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The President will double down on spinning stories of caravans of diseased terrorists coming to take away your guns and make your kids gay.
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By age 25, she commanded hundreds of soldiers guarding caravans of raw opium on mules and trucks across the hills to the Thai border.
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It was a short paddle from the flat beach inland of him, with the caravans on the low fields above, but it felt private.
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After hospitals were bombed, students organized themselves into makeshift medical caravans to care for civilians bombed or shot by the Turkish military or ISIS.
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The prospect of thousands of immigrants pouring into the U.S. from Mexico from so-called "caravans" is a daily theme on the morning show.
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Trump has made the threat of cuts to foreign aid going to Latin American countries over migrant caravans several times over the last year.
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Caravans, buses and individual travelers have been trickling into Washington throughout the week, with protesters finding housing at local churches and on friends' couches.
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In the report, Smith says that most of Savile's rapes, attempted rapes and more serious sexual offences took place in his flats and caravans.
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They were dropped off by caravans of brightly painted Daihatsu trucks or came on foot, carrying pots, pans and mattresses, balancing suitcases on their heads.
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People arrive in caravans and section off areas of the jungle to perform elaborate rituals in her honor, entering into trances and communicating with spirits.
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Sales of touring caravans increased by 7% in the year to June, to 22,185; the stationary kind was up by 8% and motorhomes by 14%.
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Their job has been made easier by the trend for "staycations" since the crash in 2008; once people's finances improved they returned to buying caravans.
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There has been no hint that governments have forced anyone into one of the caravan groups or have had a role in creating the caravans.
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Polystyrene and caravans: the much needed collaboration to bring Atlantis to the surface (not yet done) and to take your travelling home across the oceans?
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They were part of so-called caravans that trekked through Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, largely on foot, to reach the US border and seek asylum.
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As time went on, thousands continued to pour across the border, and UNHCR in partnership with the Jordanian government, began erecting the white metal caravans.
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English travellers, a minority group also referred to as "gypsies," live on the road in caravans and temporarily on camp sites, according to the BBC.
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"Why are they talking about caravans of migrants?" said Michael Leva, who co-founded Sea Star Beachwear, which makes espadrilles that stay on your feet.
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" He then claimed, without evidence, that the Central American countries "encourage the caravans because they want to get rid of the people from their country.
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But there is no evidence the caravans are encouraging more people to leave El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras for the United States, migrants' advocates said.
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"Trump said there are terrorists here," said Irineo Mujica, the director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a transnational group that has organized the caravans for years.
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Millions of Mexicans would lose their jobs and would be forced to join the caravans of Central Americans seeking a livelihood in the United States.
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Officials say they expect at least another 1,500 to arrive in the coming days, some traveling in other caravans making their way north through Mexico.
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Many of those on the list had traveled with the migrant caravans as they arrived in Mexican border cities from Central America to seek asylum.
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Degenhart said the pact "was not designed to be used for massive caravans" of people, referring to the large groups who have been traveling north.
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She recounted walking into restaurants in every corner of Missouri and invariably seeing the channel airing footage of the Central American caravans Mr. Trump demonized.
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The migrants have been traveling in caravans for protection along a route through Mexico, giving new visibility to the steady exodus of people from Honduras.
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The caravans, a different phenomena than the large groups, have been primarily made up of Honduran migrants, along with other Central Americans, according to Perez.
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Towns and villages along the route were emptied of residents as caravans of flatbed trucks carted thousands to catch a glimpse of Mr. Castro's remains.
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We fact-checked the president's recent claims about immigration, and our reporter in Mexico City has more on the immigrant caravans making headlines this week.
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At times, he has exaggerated threats, like talking up the caravans of migrants he claimed were storming the southern border before the 2018 midterm elections.
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Over time, the arrivals of caravans have also strained cities like Tijuana, where migrants are passing through or waiting until they can apply for asylum.
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Some thought Epstein owned Victoria's Secret, because of the "caravans of glamorous women" who would show up at the ranch's double-gate off Highway 41.
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This year, a new and different wave of undocumented migrant children have joined the federal caravans traveling to Cayuga Centers and other social services providers.
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Trump wants a $5.7 billion down payment to build a wall along the Mexican border to protect us from caravans of terrorists and drug dealers.
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In counterprotests on Friday, Bolsonaro supporters drove honking caravans through major cities to oppose the lockdowns, sharing videos on social media with the #BrazilCannotStop hashtag.
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But Mr. Mattis slow-walked the mission, keeping troops as far away from caravans of refugees as possible and ensuring that most forces were unarmed.
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They underpinned the gypsy economy in months when they could not pitch their caravans at the edge of fields or orchards, tying wheat or picking hops.
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Conveniently located on the historical Tea Horse Road, Qingxi used to be a major trading route for caravans of tea and spices traveling through southwest China.
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Organized caravans of predominantly Central American migrants, including many escaping drug and gang-related violence in Honduras, have crossed Mexico since 2010, according to Mexico's government.
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Kavanaugh, Caravans and Khashoggi demonstrate to the majority of Americans just how much America's values and America's image are in decline under Trump and the Republicans.
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Trump said Monday he's ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to turn away "caravans" of immigrants attempting to enter the U.S. through the southern border.
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Gastelum made international headlines when he spoke out as thousands of migrants who'd been traveling in large groups known as caravans began arriving in his city.
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Sheba and other Yemeni kingdoms once provided the frankincense and myrrh hauled by desert caravans to perfume the temples of the Holy Land and ancient Rome.
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It was unclear whether the caravan would head for Tijuana, Mexico, the AP reported, where thousands of migrants from previous caravans have remained in recent months.
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Outside the sprawling grounds, opposing caravans of cars brandished banners in slow processions alternately praising and railing against the president down Lamington Road bordering the course.
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But watching coverage of migrant caravans heading from Central America toward the United States on Cuban television last year, he began to see a new path.
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It was unclear whether the caravan would head for Tijuana, Mexico, the AP reported, where thousands of migrants from previous caravans have remained in recent months.
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President Donald Trump has said troops are needed because the border is in a "lawless state" and faces the "tremendous onslaught" of Central American migrant caravans.
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But a spate of Central American migrant caravans pushing into Mexico in recent weeks revived tensions in the run-up to U.S. congressional elections on Tuesday.
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But the shelter network has been under extraordinary pressure from the almost-continual arrival of migrants traveling in caravans, who have pushed the centers beyond capacity.
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"Today I ask everyone to show leadership to stop the formation of the caravans that have brought crime, violence and instability to the region," Nielsen said.
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Others on the list, according to lawyers representing them, had provided legal assistance or aid to migrants, but had not traveled with the caravans at all.
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He did not provide details on whether the plan would apply only to people traveling in the caravans or to anyone seeking to enter the country.
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The Chahar made the long journey in horse and camel caravans in the 18th century, under orders from the Qianlong Emperor and his court in Beijing.
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"When tourists flocked to Italy in the '70s, their caravans were not only their living rooms, but their bedrooms, their toilets and their kitchens," Wurm says.
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There, as U.S. News and World Report reported this month, ICE agents have been assisting Guatemalan law enforcement in the arrest of immigrants in the caravans.
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Reuters' journalists, who followed the caravans on the ground from their inception, continued to keep track of migrants to see where, and how, they ended up.
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In November, thousands of Central American migrants, part of caravans bound for the US, reached Tijuana, where many waited to seek asylum in the United States.
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When the president talks about George Soros, or when other leaders talk about George Soros being behind caravans, that's right out of the white supremacist playbook.
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Groups of migrants left El Salvador and Honduras earlier in the week, the latest in a string of caravans of people largely fleeing poverty and violence.
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He did not appear to be part of the migrant caravans trekking from Central America to the United States and did not seek asylum, the agency said.
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The deal, which was flagged by Reuters last week, will see the U.S. builder of mobile homes and caravans pay the bulk of the price in cash.
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Gascon said the State Department reached out to the IOM last year as caravans of thousands of Central American migrants traveled through Mexico toward the U.S. border.
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Between the lines: The troops may be leaving, but the caravans are still coming —causing U.S. officials to close a popular port of entry near San Diego.
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Migrants want U.S. authorities to speed up the asylum application process for members of migrant caravans seeking to enter the U.S., including accepting more applications per day.
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But they are looking for higher-level skills than those possessed by the men and women who ordinarily would be found in caravans, moving for better times.
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Trump made it clear the week prior to this remark that he means that the governments of Latin American countries are literally inserting criminals into the caravans.
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Nevertheless, with great financial means comes great resp—blah blah blah we've all heard it before but from old people with Dodge Caravans not objectively successful rappers.
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Signs painted on roads and nailed to fences read "Non a L'Aeroport" and some 300 hundred militants have hunkered down in makeshift shelters, caravans and abandoned farmhouses.
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He argued the U.S. needs barriers to hold off traffickers of people and drugs, even as he commended his administration for stopping so-called caravans of migrants.
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Groups of migrants departed from El Salvador and Honduras earlier in the week, the latest in a string of caravans of people largely fleeing poverty and violence.
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Either way, it suggests a problem that is unlikely to go away for a president increasingly frustrated by caravans of immigrants seeking asylum in the United States.
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Trump has the political high ground as long as he is trying to stop lawlessness or deter migrant caravans mobilized by left-wing groups in Central America.
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She added that the incoming administration will focus on ensuring the migrant caravans will receive help in accessing food, health, shelter and protection of their human rights.
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Perhaps this casts a new light on Trump's claim that there is a security crisis at the Mexican border… and his concern about caravans from Central America.
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According to AP, Mexico is facing an unprecedented situation, with three caravans entering the country over 300 miles, traveling up the highway in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz.
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Like Rojas, many Cubans who reached northern Mexico in recent months ultimately traveled with a smaller group, and caravans were not a factor for all who left.
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The video has been denounced by Democrats and some Republicans as racist for comparing Bracamontes with the caravans of migrants heading toward the US from Central America.
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Sub-Saharan music cultures from places we now know of as Mali, Nigeria, and Sudan were brought into Tunisia by both caravans of traders and shackled slaves.
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Mr. Ahmed has covered subjects including gang violence in El Salvador and hurricanes in the Caribbean, and has accompanied migrant caravans from Central America to the border.
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Reinforcements were sent by U.S. President Donald Trump with the goal of helping bolster the border ahead of the expected arrival of caravans of Central American migrants.
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And as more members of migrant caravans arrive just south of the border in Tijuana each day, neither side of the conflict appears willing to back down.
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But the president has repeatedly expressed anger that the United States sends money to the countries even as caravans of migrants make their way to the border.
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Another 2,400 migrants associated with two other separate caravans were in Mexico City on Wednesday, according to Nashieli Ramírez, the president of the city's human rights commission.
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The only outlet for Czech people to see culture in their native language came from families who traveled in caravans from town to town performing puppet shows.
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It's become an annual tradition, and getting publicity has always been a goal for this and other so-called "caravans" that periodically make their way through Mexico.
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In his tweets, Mr. Trump referred to "caravans" of immigrants heading north toward the United States-Mexico border — a subject that was addressed on the Fox program.
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The migrant caravans, illegal border crossers, and the millions of illegal immigrants already in the country are not within the pale of the new health insurance requirements.
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But in the months since the largest caravans reached the U.S. border and dispersed, public attention has mostly moved past them and the migrants who took part.
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Trump has repeatedly ranted about the so-called "caravans," which are actually composed of people who walk together toward the US border because they feel safer together.
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Earlier that day, Trump said he would declare a "national emergency" over the migrant caravan and claimed without evidence there "unknown Middle Easterners" mixed in the caravans.
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Migration experts say concerns about gang members traveling north in migrant caravans bring to mind Trump's rhetoric about violent Central Americans seeking refuge in the United States.
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" Ms. López said that she had followed the news about the caravans that arrived in northern Mexico in the fall and knew they had "suffered a lot.
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But neither the dashed hopes of so many from last year's caravans nor Mr. Trump's threats seemed to discourage many of the participants in the latest caravan.
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Vacationers left cars and caravans behind in Mallacoota, not knowing how they will get them back, while some have stayed there while sending children back to Melbourne.
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The asylum seekers had been part of groups of thousands of migrants known as caravans that left from Central America and arrived in Tijuana in recent months.
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The nonprofit Pueblo Sin Fronteras has organized caravans annually to draw attention to the plight of Central American migrants and to the logic of safety in numbers.
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Trump claimed on Friday during a trip to Florida that the countries had "set up" caravans of migrants in order to export them into the United States.
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He said he believes the incoming caravans would be the largest number of migrants to arrive in the city in such a short time in recent memory.
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Our reporter Adolfo Flores, who has reported extensively on the caravans from Central America, taught them how to use the cameras and asked them to document their journey.
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Organizers managed to crowdfund more than $16,000 to bring in caravans of people from across the country and create the canvas "wall," which was held up by activists.
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Caravans have become the new mode of immigration in Latin America, where the trek up through Mexico is an obstacle course littered with corrupt officials and violent criminals.
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Safer, faster journey: Caravans of Central Americans headed to the U.S. drew global attention late last year, but also fundamentally changed the way migrants travel to the border.
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"We are the first political prisoners of this new policy" Last week, two longtime organizers of caravans were arrested on charges of trafficking migrants in exchange for money.
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While most caravans typically shrink in size as they get further north, this one has gotten bigger — becoming by far the largest caravan on record, the Times notes.
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But the activists have remained encamped in makeshift tents, caravans, and shacks, vowing to continue to occupy the site some of them have called home for a decade.
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" A day later, Trump harped on U.S. border laws again and noted that Mexico had the power to stop the caravans of migrants "because their border laws work.
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Trump has mentioned "caravans" of immigrants multiple times in the last couple days following a segment on "Fox & Friends" that described an "army of migrants" traveling from Honduras.
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" Democratic contenders wasted little time tying the shooter's rhetoric to Trump's own descriptions of immigrants as "thugs" and "criminals" and his characterization of migrant caravans as an "invasion.
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Trump has spent recent days tweeting his frustrations about current immigration laws, warning of "caravans" of migrants approaching the border and calling on Congress to enact tougher regulations.
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The news outlet said roughly 600 migrants left before sunrise, and planned to follow the same route used last year by thousands of migrants who formed multiple caravans.
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"If you don't want America to be overrun by masses of illegal aliens and giant caravans, you'd better vote Republican," Trump said at his Missouri rally on Thursday.
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Though Pueblo Sin Fronteras has helped shepherd caravans for years, several more have formed more spontaneously since 2018 in southern Mexico or in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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The caravans and the pressure they have put on the region have forced Mexico — and Central America — to reckon with the issue like never before, Mr. Heredia said.
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Today, with about 10,000 migrants having entered Mexico in caravans that focused global media attention on their plight, mass roundups and deportations are not an option, officials say.
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Written by Sarah Meister, a photography curator at MoMA, the book comes out at a time when faces of desperately poor people in migrant caravans dominate the news.
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He resented the government, the arbitrary brutality of the police and the relentless corruption that had driven so many Hondurans to leave in caravans to the United States.
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I mean, we have parliaments, obstinacies, caravans and destructions; there is a petition to rename a "shoal" of squids to a "squad," but it's not making many waves.
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The 14 caravans, tiny houses, and yurts surrounding the Earthship only act as the bedrooms and are not allowed to have their own sanitary facilities or running water.
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Caravans from Central America have inflamed the debate over U.S. immigration policy, with Trump pointing at the migrants to try to win backing for his border security plan.
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"While it may not be a sexy, hot political issue, it is something that actually will help stem caravans," said a second person familiar with the funding logjam.
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Trump, meanwhile, has said nothing about the fact that Bowers, the alleged shooter in Pittsburgh, falsely claimed Jews were assisting the "migrant caravans" the president is so obsessed with.
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And while most caravans typically shrink in size as they get further north, this one has only grown — becoming by far the largest caravan on record, the Times notes.
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Large groups of people making the journey from Central America, known as caravans, have forced smugglers to be more creative and aggressive, Selee of the Migration Policy Institute said.
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Berlin startup Campanda, which offers an online booking site for Recreational Vehicles (that's motorhomes, caravans and campervans, to you and me), has raised €10 million in Series B funding.
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President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. government would be cutting off foreign assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, blaming them (without evidence) for "setting up" migrant caravans.
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The country's interior minister said Guatemala also plans to physically break up migrant caravans and to test families' DNA to ensure people aren't transporting kids that aren't their own.
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The policy came as the government sought ways to block thousands of Central Americans traveling in caravans to escape violence and poverty at home from entering the United States.
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And while most caravans typically shrink in size as they get further north, this one has only grown — becoming by far the largest caravan on record, the Times notes.
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The new rules were spurred in part by caravans of Central American migrants slowly moving north on foot, but officials say they will apply to anyone caught crossing illegally.
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The scene was reminiscent of a string of caravans that left Central America a year ago, at one point ballooning into a group of 7,000 people in southern Mexico.
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They include 2000 who have worked at Cobrey Farms before and stayed in the dozens of static caravans that stand at the foot of the hills on the farm.
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"This will be the election of the Kavanaughs and the caravans and law and order and tax cuts," Trump told a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Oct. 26.
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Some performers were completely cooperative and willing to go out of their way to pose for me, inviting me back to their caravans to set up a special shot.
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The thousands of migrants, some of them violent criminals, in the caravans marching toward our border under their flags are just the most recent visible outgrowth of this phenomenon.
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Many of the migrants traveling in the caravans will have children after crossing the border, perhaps in the months or years that they spend waiting for a deportation hearing.
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"If you don't want America to be overrun by masses of illegal aliens and giant caravans, you'd better vote Republican," he told a crowd in Missouri on November 2.
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Critics say the president's statements about the caravans, including a series of angry tweets, have ironically enlarged the groups and publicized asylum as a possible avenue to legal status.
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I had fought the Horse Lords, a regional power who had been raiding trade caravans out of the local major city, and they were on their knees before me.
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But the city still housed an estimated 7,000 migrants, most of whom had traveled north in the Central American caravans that Trump had worked to cast as dangerous invaders.
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While other caravans have generally withered as they have progressed north, this one has grown, perhaps in part as a result of all the media attention it has received.
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Migrants traveling in these caravans are aware that Mr. Trump is opposed to their entry to the United States, and have heard about the military deployment to the border.
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"Until Congress acts, we will continue to have de facto open borders that guarantees future 'caravans' and record numbers of family units entering the country illegally," Ms. Waldman said.
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In Los Angeles that day, people bristled, perhaps, because they hadn't ever expected to experience one that topped Inez Andrews's tearing into it, with the Caravans in the 1958.
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Advocacy groups have, in the past, used caravans to draw attention to the desperate situation in countries like Honduras and push the United States to relax its immigration laws.
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Equally unclear was what measures Mexico could take to seal the border with the United States or stop migrant caravans traveling from Central America to try to cross it.
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Even before the caravans set off from Central America, Mexico's asylum system was already under strain as an increasing number of migrants chose to seek sanctuary in the country.
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While some caravans have been encouraged by activists, others emerged spontaneously, as news spread through neighborhoods about groups forming to head to Mexico and onward to the United States.
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When Barrera falls, caravans of narcos make their way up twisted country roads to pay their respects at his funeral; then they fight to the death to succeed him.
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The women also lacked the funds to fly, so they traveled to tournaments in caravans of four or five automobiles when the interstate highway system was in its infancy.
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Caravans of fellow unionists, from teachers to construction workers, came too, from as far away as New York, recognizing that the issues being negotiated at G.M. affect us all.
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Washington (CNN)On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump referenced an impending series of immigrant 'caravans' moving through Mexico to spark his call for Congress to pass strict border laws.
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Called "caravans," most of the journeys, which date back at least five years, have moved forward with little fanfare, virtually unnoticed north of the border with the United States.
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Finally, the Pittsburgh temple was allegedly attacked by a man, Robert Bowers, who wrote angry messages about migrant "caravans" and was enraged by a Jewish agency that aids refugees.
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Mr. Trump said he has told leaders in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to stop caravans of people from traveling through Mexico toward the border with the United States.
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"We have a crisis at the border right now ... This caravan is one iteration of that but frankly we essentially see caravans every day with these numbers," she said.
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Many factors feed into this surge, including increased violence in origin countries like Honduras, drought, and recent publicity around so-called "caravans" of civilians walking north to the US border.
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We will NOT let these Caravans, which are also made up of some very bad thugs and gang members, into the U.S. Our Border is sacred, must come in legally.
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For example, Dodge is offering $22012,270 off 266.5 Caravans through June 23 and the 213 Kia Sorento comes with discounts of $113,211 to $2400,22013 through July 1, according to Cars.com.
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Settlers had set up two caravans at the Amona outpost last month, in what they described as a protest against a recent surge in Palestinian attacks in the West Bank.
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Santos wasn't the only one; other people from previous caravans traveled to southern Mexico to help, and they were now part of a larger movement they couldn't cut ties with.
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Trump has asked Mexico to stop the caravans; López Obrador has promised to offer jobs and visas to Central Americans who flee rampant poverty and widespread insecurity in their countries.
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Other caravans are expected to set out from Central America in coming days, encouraged by reports that it is a safer way for migrants to undertake the perilous journey north.
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The asylum ruling came as thousands of Central Americans, including a large number of children, are traveling in caravans toward the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty at home.
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A count last year of traveller caravans by local authorities in England found that numbers had jumped by 37% since 2007, compared with an 8% rise in England's population overall.
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The Ghraouis had been traders since 1805 in sugar, tea, coffee and dried fruits, building on an ancient Damascene tradition of supplying Silk Road camel-caravans with non-perishable sweets.
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A FEW HOURS after Donald Trump tweeted about "the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans, into our Country", Carmen sat in a church office in suburban Maryland, quietly sobbing.
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This isn't a new strategy for him; ahead of last November's midterms, for instance, Trump leaned heavily into stoking fears about migrant caravans "invading" the country across the southern border.
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Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security said the agency is tracking three migrant caravans currently in route to the U.S., one of which it claims has more than 12,000 people.
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Here in Mexico, 2628 asylum claims rose by 28503 percent, and with less than 22019 percent of claimants originating from the "caravans," we can see a much larger trend developing.
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They joined one of the 'caravans' of thousands of Central American migrants that have made the trip over the past year in hopes of securing asylum in the United States.
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Rodrigo Abeja, a coordinator from immigrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras that has been organizing similar caravans for several years, said the caravan planned to regroup before making any decisions.
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"There's no question that the issue of the caravans was an issue that was inflated for political purposes, to influence the midterm elections," Harris told reporters in a brief interview.
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These two groups combined with other caravans making their way though the Northern Triangle and Mexico will result in approximately eight to ten thousand migrants amassing along our southern border.
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Most importantly, it will not stop migrants from fleeing their home countries; if anything, cutting off aid to Central America will likely lead to more caravans and more asylum-seekers.
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The President has been a frequent critic of granting foreign aid to Central American countries and has threatened to pull foreign aid to Honduras in response to previous migrant caravans.
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They noted that Trump had characterized the caravans as an "invasion" while falsely stating they harbored terrorists and were financed in part by Democrats and the Jewish philanthropist George Soros.
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And Republicans who do want to talk about immigration are far more likely to follow Mr. Trump's lead by stoking fear about migrant caravans, gang members and criminal border-crossers.
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Similar, albeit smaller, caravans have passed through Mexico for years, but this one made headlines after Trump demanded its members be denied entry and that stronger immigration laws be enacted.
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Thousands of Central Americans have banded together in so-called caravans this year as a form of protection against the perils that typically stalk migrants headed to the U.S. border.
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In Oklahoma's fifth district, where my family is now living, the Republican incumbent, Steve Russell, ran ads that stoked fears of "pipe bombs, shootings, migrant caravans," equating migrants with criminals.
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Mr. Kingston said if he had his druthers, Republicans would have centered their message on the economy, and not closed out the campaign with dire warnings about caravans of immigrants.
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Mr. Trump on Thursday portrayed the caravans — which include thousands of families, many with children, hoping to escape violence and poverty in their homelands — as a threat to national security.
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In June 23 caravans of drivers used social media to organise nationwide protests about fuel prices, low incomes and the market dominance of a few, Uber-like load-finding apps.
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"With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necessary for STRONG Border Security," Trump wrote in a tweet on Sunday evening.
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Until the root causes of migration from Central America's Northern Triangle are addressed, caravans of migrants such as the one that left Honduras this week will keep forming with regularity.
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That was one reason Mr. Trump spent part of his Easter Sunday complaining on Twitter about "caravans" of immigrants heading north toward the United States-Mexico border, the official said.
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Soto was endorsed by the mayor of San Juan -- an influential voice for Puerto Rican voters -- and ran what Alex called a "culturally relevant" campaign with caravans and party buses.
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At one point last year, Mr. Trump described a "wall of people" to stop caravans of Central American refugees and called for up to 15,000 troops to defend the border.
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Migrants have said they have banded together in large groups, called caravans, because such groups help keep them safe from robberies and other dangers along the trek north through Mexico.
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For instance, caravans of citizens made their way south to deliver supplies for those forced into homelessness by the recent seismic activity — which by the way, is still creating aftershocks.
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The recent caravans from Central America primarily consist of migrants who are not trying to sneak across the border but instead are presenting themselves to border officials and requesting asylum.
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Some have traveled in large caravans that have sparked angry outbursts from Trump, and many have taken children, hoping to have their cases for asylum heard in U.S. immigration courts.
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But that has not stopped people trying to reach the border, including those from the caravans, others traveling from Central America independently, and Mexicans fleeing violence in cartel-plagued states.
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While her mother assumed she was at the Tate Gallery, she would get dressed on the train from her home in Northampton and follow caravans of New Romantics around for hours.
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Central Americans following news coverage of the caravans have viewed the groups as a safer way to make the journey north without having to pay thousands of dollars to a smuggler.
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Thousands of migrants have arrived in the northern city of Tijuana in recent weeks, having trekked through Mexico as part of the caravans from Central America that began forming in October.
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They've mapped out safe routes for the caravans and established safe practices, training migrants in how to run security perimeters to keep from being victimized by gangs of thieves and worse.
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Similarly to how different groups perceive left-wing mobs and migrant caravans, this piece is like a rorschach test: How you view the black crowd says more about you than it.
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Mexico has already returned 15,000 migrants during the past 30 days following threats from President Trump to close the border if the country didn't reign in the migrant caravans, per Reuters.
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Trump said he was willing to send as many as 15,000 troops to defend the border, even though the caravans remained hundreds of miles away from the U.S. come Election Day.
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Of Caravans and Canvas and many more photographic works are showing in galleries and other locations across Sydney from May 5 to 20, as part of Head on Photo Festival 2018.
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Salehi said the group's caravans have been deliberately making stops along the way to places where people aren't discussing the controversial immigration policy so that they can help start the conversation.
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Vice President Pence on Monday said the migrant caravans streaming towards the U.S. are nothing less than an assault and that they will not be allowed to overwhelm the Southern Border.
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"Your recent pronouncements regarding migrant caravans in southern Mexico mischaracterize the situation, are unlikely to achieve effective border security, and do not reflect the best attributes of our country," Reed wrote.
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The Queen of Sheba, with her great incense-trading kingdom, would likely have wanted to protect her merchant caravans and prevent competition between the new sea lanes and her overland routes.
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Unlike recent caravans of migrants that headed for Tijuana, often several hundred people strong, most of those who journey to Reynosa make their way alone, or aided by clandestine people smugglers.
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Based on past caravans, however, the organizers expected that the vast majority of participants would drop out along the way, choosing instead to travel in smaller groups or stay in Mexico.
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The effort was an attempt to determine who was behind the caravans bringing large numbers of migrants from Central America to the southwest border, according to a leaked internal government document.
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Nowhere in the national security strategy, which Pentagon leaders approved, does it say that migrant caravans of people fleeing drug violence in Central American countries are a threat to national security.
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On the theater's front lawn, parked neatly alongside the box office, is a row of five weathered caravans with white wooden sides, each with a little staircase up to its door.
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Many of the migrants who arrived on the northern Mexico border in caravans in recent weeks had set out from home with a different idea of how things might turn out.
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But as the caravans have led to a certain migrant fatigue along the migrant trail in Chiapas, some residents are beginning to feel an even deeper antipathy toward Mr. López Obrador.
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At least two large migrant caravans — one numbering about 2,000 people and the other about 800 — are currently traveling through southern Mexico toward the United States, according to local news reports.
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Officials from the state of Baja California said Thursday that some 9,000 migrants were currently moving through Mexico in caravans, though not all were expected to wind up in the state.
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They're driving through protected areas like Serengeti National Park and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in caravans of Land Rovers, each packed so tightly that peoples' binocular straps get tangled up.
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In 2018, Mr. Ryan was furious at Mr. Trump for talking endlessly about immigration — the dangers from caravans of migrants, a pledge to end birthright citizenship, his obsession with the border.
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Trump rallied for 36 GOP House and Senate candidates and tweeted about an "invasion" staged by caravans of immigrants approaching the country's southern border, deep-state coups, and Russia witch hunts.
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A lot of people say, 'I wonder who started that caravan...'" Trump re-upped that claim in a tweet on Sunday afternoon: "The Caravans are a disgrace to the Democrat Party.
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The Trump administration has excoriated Central American and Mexican governments for failing to stop the caravans, which met little resistance at the various international borders they crossed on the way north.
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For his supporters, he promised to build that wall across the southern border, warning in sinister tones of a "tremendous onslaught" of migrant caravans, as Democratic groans echoed in the chamber.
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For the renovation, the stylist and her son — her "accomplice," as she calls him — drew on their shared passion for the outdoors, the history of caravans and Moretti's own peripatetic career.
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Up to 1,000 migrants linked to the caravans have arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana in recent days, with a similar number expected to arrive in the next few days.
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This is not the first time the Trump administration has, directly or indirectly, cut off US support that might prevent caravans of people from coming to the border in the first place.
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Caravans have been organizing annually for the past decade, but this one is unprecedented in size — just months after a caravan of more than 1,000 people drew Trump's ire in the spring.
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Pueblo Sin Fronteras had organized the caravans to bring attention to the migrants and asylum-seekers — now they had it on a scale they never could have imagined, and they weren't ready.
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On Tuesday night, one of the migrant caravans moving through Mexico toward the U.S. border, with participants looking for safety and a more prosperous life, stopped in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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" And Trump's October 22, 2018 tweet shortly before the midterms said point blank to "blame the Democrats" for the caravans of migrants trying to enter the country "illegally," adding, "Remember the Midterms!
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That en masse migration drew extensive media attention and triggered a crisis with U.S. President Donald Trump, who called the caravans an "invasion" and demanded Mexico do more to halt their progress.
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Central American migrant caravans have become a flashpoint in the debate over U.S. immigration policy, as President Donald Trump has remained adamant that the migrants will be barred from crossing the border.
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Salehi said the group has since expanded into a grass-roots movement with other "grannies" and "grampies" forming caravans across the country to travel the southern border to protest migrant family separations.
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Despite the large Caravans that WERE forming and heading to our Country, people have not been able to get through our newly built Walls, makeshift Walls & Fences, or Border Patrol Officers & Military.
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The administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has stepped up migrant detentions and tightened access to humanitarian visas, slowing the flow of caravans north and leaving hundreds of people in Mapastepec.
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Trump repeatedly lashed out at the caravans and earlier this year, the U.S. government cut aid to Central America after he said the region needed to do more to stop citizens leaving.
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Puerto Rico holds elections every four years, and campaigns have a distinct style with parade-like street caravans and a strong sense of party membership to the island's three major political parties.
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Mexico's National Migration Institute said 969 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua crossed into Ciudad Hidalgo just days after new U.S.-bound caravans of people set off from Central America.
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But protest organizers said Trump's frequent tweets about the caravans of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico en route to the United States may have been a factor in provoking Saturday's bloodshed.
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In recent days, up to 1,000 migrants linked to the caravans have arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, with a similar number expected to arrive in the next few days.
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As of a week ago, more than 600 Central Americans associated with the caravans had received humanitarian visas and more than 400 had applied for asylum in Mexico, the federal government reported.
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Even before the current wave of migrant caravans began to arrive in Tijuana in mid-November, the border city, long a major migratory gateway to the United States, was already under stress.
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President Trump had vowed to send up to 15,000 active-duty forces to the border to confront bands of migrant caravans traveling through Mexico that he described as a national security threat.
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While public attention has shifted away from the Rio Grande Valley, given the caravans and large groups arriving elsewhere, the region still has the highest numbers of illegal crossings along the border.
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Making its way westward via Silk Road merchants and caravans, the plague took several years to reach Persia, where it killed the Khan overlord Abu Said as well as half the population.
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In 2017, there were two so-called caravans of 200 or so people; of that group, three have been granted asylum in the US while the others' fates are still being litigated.
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Sanchez, who said the situation of migrant caravans was "very delicate," did not explicitly rule out that Mexico could keep caravan migrants on its soil while their U.S. asylum claims are processed.
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But the formation of new caravans in Central America comes as political pressure mounts over a convoy of thousands of people now transiting Mexico, en route from Honduras to the United States.
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Only 1,300 had been deployed in California, according to the latest US Northern Command numbers, even though the majority of migrants with the caravans are heading to the border between California and Mexico.
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The near 75,000 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala that arrived in Mexico in caravans have been "stranded, unable to enter the United States, without a home or livelihood," the Vatican said.
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Since April 2018 Trump has lashed out at the caravans of Central Americans wending their way to the United States, while blaming Mexico for failing to stop their movement to the U.S. border.
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The President is also moving forward with plans to limit asylum claims for Central American migrants and has used charged language to talk about migrants, including labeling migrant caravans as full of criminals.
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In an article in Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper, May pledged more funding and a new cross-government taskforce to help victims found in "nail bars and car washes to sheds and rundown caravans".
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For now, though, despite his orders to keep such migrant caravans out of the country, international and U.S. law obliges the government to listen to people's stories and decide whether they deserve shelter.
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These historical tidbits, I suspect, in the hands of another organization's marketing team, might be widely advertised to bait potential visitors to the Block Museum's current exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time.
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And, of course, the issue dominates the front pages today, including in the coverage of the migrant caravans trekking across Mexico and the thousands of United States troops stationed on the southwestern border.
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Islamism is far less of a threat in the United States than in Europe — we do not, contrary to what the president would have you believe, have caravans of terrorists crossing our border.
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What you won't see, though, are pictures of caravans of white people fleeing Baltimore because the schools were desegregated in the 1960s and riots tore through the city after the assassination of Rev.
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Consider: * Trump backs off his threat, made via Twitter, that he would close the border with Mexico unless the country works more aggressively to stop caravans of immigrants moving toward the United States.
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The Romanès family spends most of the year in the upscale 16th Arrondissement of Paris — in a small park where their circus caravans have a permanent spot and where they perform their show.
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Some have chosen to move in large, semi-coordinated groups or caravans, offering participants a degree of security against the many perils that lurk on the migrant trail, including muggings, extortion and rape.
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The relatively new phenomenon of caravans of migrants consists largely of families who present themselves to border officials and request asylum, rather than trying to go deeper into the interior on their own.
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Migrants who arrived with the caravans over the past month are near the end of the list and will likely wait at least two to three months for their numbers to be called.
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At least three more caravans have formed and followed, underscoring a shift in regional migratory trends — a response to high smuggler fees and the risk of theft, extortion, rape, and homicide along the trail.
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The big picture: This is the second recent instance of tear gas being used on crowds of migrants, including women and children, who have travelled to the U.S. in "caravans" — many to seek asylum.
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Local residents stopping by and dropping off what they could and caravans of volunteers from around the country who made the journey to McAllen in Texas Rio Grande Valley packed with donations and cash.
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Even the budget's extra social housing spend was unlikely to alleviate the signs of families living in cars, caravans and garages that Salvation Army policy analyst Alan Johnson sees around his South Auckland neighborhood.
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In recent years, the caravans have been used to help move people through Mexico out in the open, hoping their numbers will protect them from criminals and also stop immigration authorities from detaining them.
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Trump's Easter day comments claiming "caravans" of undocumented immigrants are crossing America's southern border imply that he doesn't fully understand who DACA protects — people who have been in the U.S. for over a decade.
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Alex Mensing, a project coordinator with Pueblo Sin Fronteras, has been in touch with E. since she joined one of the group's migrant caravans in Mexico on the way to the US in March.
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The U.S. is cutting off federal aid to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in response to what President Trump described as incoming migrant caravans from those countries, per a State Department spokesperson, reports CNN.
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" Mexican Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero told local press earlier this week that the government was aware that "a new caravan is being formed in Honduras that they call the mother of all caravans.
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Thousands of Central American migrants have been camping at shelters in Tijuana since arriving in November after traveling in caravans across Mexico to reach the U.S. border, where many have hoped to request asylum.
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Caravans as a means of illegal immigration to the United States present a challenge not only to the United States but also to the source countries in Central America and transit regions within Mexico.
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Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Gerónimo Gutiérrez said Monday his nation does not condone or promote illegal immigration amid sharp criticism from the Trump administration over caravans of migrants approaching the southern American border.
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First as a candidate and then as President, he spoke of Mexican "rapists," of "caravans" filled with encroaching "aliens"; he directed invective at African-Americans, Muslims, women, and immigrants, and at legislators of color.
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He has criticized Trump on Twitter in the past, condemning his repeated characterization of the media as "the enemy of the people" and pushing back on what he called Trump's "fearmongering" about migrant caravans.
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The vice president warned of a "real crisis at our border," citing the so-called caravans, the "flow of narcotics" and the "literally 2,000 people a day" who attempt to enter the United States.
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Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa continues at the Block Museum (on the campus of Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, Illinois) through July 21.
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"The person who created the media coverage and who drove the issue of the caravans has been President Trump," Tonatiuh Guillen, the head of Mexico's National Migration Institute, said on local radio last week.
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The High End Some things don't change much on the Upper West Side: the classic prewar co-ops, the caravans of baby strollers, and Zabar's, the grocer of choice for many smoked-fish aficionados.
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His one real political skill is for demagoguery — turning policy problems like the trend of migrant "caravans" into mostly fake crises that appear and disappear on the national agenda when it suits Trump's whims.
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But this spring, Trump moved to undo those investment efforts, directing the State Department to cut aid to the Northern Triangle in response to the migrant caravans that arrived on the US southern border.
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Her death, which is under investigation, has been widely condemned as a consequence of the Trump administration's hard-line immigration enforcement efforts on the southwest border against caravans of migrants traveling from Central America.
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"We've also seen success with early vote events, and students walking to polls together or organizing bus caravans, where it becomes a campuswide act that's fun and easy to participate in," Ms. Brown added.
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Recreational vehicles (RVs), caravans, campervans or motorhomes - whatever size they are and whatever you call them, they are back and picking up a new generation of eager fans just wanting to hit the road.
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For several years, migrants from Central America have made their way north en masse in so-called caravans as a way to protect themselves from criminals as they flee violence in their home countries.
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This is the kind of stuff the Mets used to do during their so-called winter caravans, when they were dealing with the frequent reality of being overshadowed by the Yankees in New York.
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"They want these caravans full of illegal aliens coming into our country, overwhelming your schools, depleting your resources and endangering your communities," Trump told a crowd in Indianapolis a few days before the election.
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In office, he has attempted to perpetuate that angst by proclaiming existential threats to the Republic, be they migrant caravans storming the border, Muslim terrorists flooding the airports or violent immigrants roaming the countryside.
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The country contains many lions, which are a great scourge to travelers; for unless going in caravans of over a hundred men and being protected by military equipment, they will be hurt by them.
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The caravans have inflamed the debate over U.S. immigration policy, with President Donald Trump using the migrants to try to secure backing for his plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Over a year ago, immigrant caravans traveling through Mexico captured the attention of President Donald Trump, who claimed the immigrants, many of whom hoped to request asylum, posed a danger to the United States.
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The number of Central Americans arriving at the U.S. border - in caravans, alone or guided by traffickers - has jumped this year, prompting Trump to demand even tougher action from Mexico to stem the tide.
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In March, the White House announced it was cutting off aid to the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, saying the three "set up" migrant caravans for entry into the United States.
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Mexico's crackdown means it is increasingly difficult for migrants traveling alone or in self-led caravans, which could lead more to seek out smugglers who can pay off immigration and police to get them there.
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As so-called caravans of migrants from Central America moved through Mexico last year, a public opinion survey from El Universal newspaper found that many people were not ready to roll out the welcome mat.
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Most of those caravans had taken place with little attention from the international community, until Trump took note this spring, when NGO Pueblo Sin Fronteras departed from the Mexican city of Tapachula on March 25.
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President Trump has pointed to so-called caravans of Central American migrants as a reason to beef up border security and build his long promised wall, even as border apprehensions have fallen to historic lows.
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The careful balance was further strained last month, when Trump repeatedly chastised the Mexican military for not doing enough to stop large caravans of Central American migrants traveling through the country toward the US border.
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The government of Honduras said on Friday it rejected comments by a Mexican minister that the "mother of all caravans," with more than 20,000 people, was being organized in the Central American nation.
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The administration of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has stepped up migrant detentions and tightened access to humanitarian visas, slowing the flow of caravans north and leaving hundreds of people stuck in the south.
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" On planned aid cuts to 3 central American countries, Trump defended the decision, saying he had "a feeling" the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras could "stop caravans from forming in those three countries.
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The American people have demonstrated patience and generosity with these countries for years, yet nothing has been done to stop their citizens from forming caravans with the explicit purpose of crossing the southern border illegally.
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If Mexico will not do its part to control migrant caravans crossing its territory in plain sight, then President Trump will have no other choice but to close the border until the crisis is resolved.
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Swalwell specifically pointed at what he dubbed the "scare-avans" — a reference to the caravans of immigrants who have traveled through Central American to the Mexican border to ask for asylum in the United States.
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In the past few days up to 1,000 migrants linked to the caravans have arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, with a similar number expected to arrive in the next day or so.
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Last week, he effectively suspended the granting of asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, seeking fresh ways to block thousands of Central Americans traveling in caravans from entering the United States.
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He signaled no retreat on his most quintessential, and divisive, campaign pledge, saying, "walls work and walls save lives," and raising the specter of "caravans" of migrants massing for a "tremendous onslaught" on the border.
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Some have occasionally chosen to move in caravans — large, semi-coordinated groups — their size offering participants some degree of security against the many perils that lurk on the migrant trail, including muggings, extortion and rape.
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The Pittsburgh shooting suspect's social media posts indicate that he believed Jews were at fault for helping transport members of the migrant caravans from Central America that Trump has been stoking fears about for weeks.
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The men, women and children who have traveled north in a stream of caravans in recent months have grabbed attention because it is unusual for people to move through Mexico together in such large numbers.
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Paris Journal The Romanès family spends most of the year in the upscale 16th Arrondissement of Paris — in a small park where their circus caravans have a permanent spot and where they perform their show.
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The influx comes as Mr. Trump said he would cut off all foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over migrant caravans, and threatened to close the Mexican border as soon as this week.
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President Trump exaggerates threats from caravans of migrants or from a hobbled Iran, and he has diverted billions of dollars from the military to build a border wall that smugglers hack apart with $100 saws.
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"Isn't it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country - yet they are proudly waving....," the president wrote on Twitter.
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First off, the "caravans" mentioned here by Trump refer to, presumably, the group of more than 1,000 people currently making their way through Mexico on their way to the US where they are seeking asylum.
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A Department of Homeland Security official told CNN that there are currently more than 10,000 undocumented migrants making their way to the US-Mexico border, but they do not appear to be traveling in caravans.
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"As we have said time and again, until Congress acts, we will continue to have de facto open borders that guarantees future 'caravans' and record numbers of family units entering the country illegally," Waldman said.
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They have become the primary source of all those migrants and caravans coming to America today, including 187,000 minors without adult guardians, who were picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol between 2014 and 2018.
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Another 1,000 have decided to stay in Mexico, accepting work permits that were offered to them last fall, at the height of international consternation over how to deal with the growing presence of migrant caravans.
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Both Trump Twitter tantrums started with references to "Caravans" — which Trump appears to have learned about on Sunday morning from a Fox News segment featuring Brandon Judd, the head of the Border Patrol agents union.
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This isn't the first time Trump has invented an immigration crisis when convenient — ahead of the midterms, he warned about a dire threat from migrant caravans, only to essentially drop the issue after the elections.
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In the past few days up to 1,000 people from caravans of migrants have arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, with a similar number expected to arrive in the next day or so.
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The first single from the album, released this morning, is a cover of "Mary Don't You Weep," an early spiritual first recorded in 1915 and first made famous by The Caravans in the mid-'50s.
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Caravans of migrants bound for the United States have sparked friction with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has accused Mexico of failing to contain illegal immigration and wants a border wall built to stop people crossing.
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Contemporary work like James Nachtwey's 1990s photographs from ruins in Kabul, and Lothar Osterburg's 2010 "Vaulted Trailer Park" that positions stacks of caravans beneath stone arches, show artists continuing to grapple with the vulnerability of cities.
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In February, Mexico's interior secretary, Olga Sánchez Cordero, said members of Pueblo Sin Fronteras are among those the government has identified in promoting and organizing caravans and suggested that some may be involved in human smuggling.
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Three years ago, 100 to 200 overloaded pick-up trucks would leave Agadez in a convoy every Monday at sundown, kicking up dust as they sped down routes once traveled by salt traders in camel caravans.
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At rallies, on social media and from the White House, Trump zeroed in on caravans of Central American migrants traveling toward the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum, claiming they were an "invasion" of the country.
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The John Lewis Partnership, an employee-owned firm operating department stores and supermarkets, offers subsidized holidays at hotels and caravans it owns in the U.K., to places like the Lake District and Brownsea Island in Dorset.
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The caravans have inflamed the debate over U.S. immigration policy, with U.S. President Donald Trump using the migrants to try to secure backing for his plan to build a wall at the southern border with Mexico.
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There has been a spike in arrivals in the last month, because this is the time of year when these "caravans" and big groups of people try to come over because of the reasons stated earlier.
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Aleksandar Hemon is the latter kind of writer, and his obsession is exile—a theme both as old as The Odyssey and as pressing as the migrant caravans wending their way northward to the United States.
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Trump's 11th-hour rhetoric against migrant caravans approaching the southern border only added to that, and said it amounted to "whipped cream and the cherry on top of the ice cream" to drive up GOP turnout.
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But it did not work in 2018, when Trump's racist language and policies led to brutally separating children from their families at the border and demonizing asylum-seekers as caravans full of criminals invading our country.
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Trump has ramped up his rhetoric on immigration, warning without evidence that "unknown Middle Easterners" and criminals are part of the group of thousands of migrants traveling from central America, and blaming the caravans on Democrats.
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They've been coming in waves of caravans, fleeing persecution, violence, and poverty, spurred on by social media and local news stories of the swelling masses of people packing up what they could carry and heading north.
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Mr. Shi said local mule caravans had ended before he was born, a year after China's Communist revolution of 1949, but that his grandfather had seen muleteers carrying salt from a nearby mine to other villages.
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And it's not just at rallies and on Twitter where Trump often warns about immigrants invading the United States or finds new migrant caravans to stoke fears about — it's also part of his paid advertising plan.
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The first of the caravans set off from Honduras in mid-October and eventually grew to include more than 4,000 people, mainly from Central America, who traveled north by a combination of walking and hitching rides.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A stream of U.S.-bound Central American migrant caravans risks clouding the rapprochement between Mexico's next leader and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has railed against illegal migration to energize his electoral base.
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"He wanted us all to be held accountable for what we did for everyday people," Mr. de Blasio said, in brief remarks on the corner where fire engines blared, police counterterrorism caravans whooped and traffic crawled.
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"If it hadn't been for the caravans, Mexico would have had more margin to say this is insane and there is no crisis at the border," said Carlos Bravo Regidor, a political analyst in Mexico City.
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Despite the Democrat inspired laws on Sanctuary Cities and the Border being so bad and one sided, I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country.
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It's the sort of threat that Pueblo Sin Fronteras is calling attention to by organizing caravans to begin with — and that the caravan's remnants will be much more vulnerable to as they travel on their own.
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Guatemala, which has been forming Caravans and sending large numbers of people, some with criminal records, to the United States, has decided to break the deal they had with us on signing a necessary Safe Third Agreement.
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The escalating rhetoric and expected deployments come as the president has been trying to turn the caravans into a key election issue just days before the midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of Congress.
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Since April 2018, Trump has lashed out at caravans of Central Americans wending their way to the United States, raising their profile for migrants while blaming Mexico for failing to stop their movement to the U.S. border.
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But the Honduran government has taken a harder line than last year, perhaps prompted by Trump's threats in the fall to cut off aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador if they didn't stop the migrant caravans.
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In fact, Trump's trampling of our most basic American values and the weaponization of human suffering for political gain can be highlighted in the issues he is using to make his final argument: Kavanaugh, caravans and Khashoggi.
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The U.S. government kept a database of journalists and activists who were associated with covering or raising awareness of one of the so-called migrant caravans last year, according to documents reviewed by NBC 7 San Diego.
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The researchers aren't exactly sure what suddenly derailed the trilobite caravans, but they think that toxic amounts of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide may have mixed into the ocean bottom and killed them literally in their tracks.
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Steve Russell ran two ads warning of "pipe bombs, shootings, migrant caravans, protests and political attack ads" with footage of the 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri, as a threat of what might happen if Democrats are elected.
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Mujica, working with migrant aid organization Pueblo Sin Fronteras, has for years guided annual caravans of Central American migrants, negotiating their passage, temporary shelter, food handouts and occasional transport through Mexico and sometimes to the U.S. border.
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By pressuring Mexico to intercept Central American refugees and dissuading or prohibiting them from requesting asylum in the United States and by radically slowing down asylum-processing at the border, he contributed to the creation of caravans.
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After large caravans of migrants arrived last fall in Tijuana, Mexico, a United Nations survey found that 72 percent of those surveyed were from Honduras — and 28 percent of the respondents had worked in the agricultural sector.
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And though the migrant caravans account for only a small, albeit high-profile, fraction of the total number of migrants who traverse Mexico, the López Obrador administration has largely allowed them to move unimpeded across Mexican territory.
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Fleeing devastated agriculture, overpopulation and unemployment, migrants from a dozen countries gather here in caravans every Monday night and make a mad dash through the Sahara to Libya, hoping to eventually hop across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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Washington (CNN)Nearly a year after migrant caravans captured the nation's attention and drew the ire of President Donald Trump, they appear to have fizzled out, marking yet another shift in their ever-evolving immigration policy narrative.
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In response to concerns Nogales officials expressed about the razor wire earlier this week, Customs and Border Protection told CNN affiliate KGUN that the agency was making "necessary preparations" as migrant caravans head toward the US border.
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Buses and car caravans ferried groups of 100 or more migrants at a time to the border; 111 such groups arrived in the winter and spring, compared with 13 the previous year and just two in 2017.
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He joined forces with Alberto E. de la Cruz, the chief executive of Coca-Cola Puerto Rico Bottlers, who organized caravans of his company's trucks to ferry food and water to some the island's most neglected towns.
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Of 6,15003 who arrived in Tijuana in the caravans last month, 1,000 have scrambled over border fences, and most of those were detained, the head of Mexico's civil protection agency David Leon told local media on Wednesday.
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Looking at the shapes of the news cycles in the chart, it's clear which events managed to keep a consistent level of American attention — such as the migrant caravans, which Trump spent months talking about before the elections.
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"A group of people were identified who, in the period of migrant caravans, made unusual operations from Chiapas and Queretaro to different countries, including some considered risky jurisdictions by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)," the statement said.
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That was inevitably followed by a tweet-a-thon and public declarations about militarizing the border, stopping the advancing "caravans" of immigrants coming up through Central America and Mexico, and getting Congress to change our "weak" border laws.
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About 800 people were left in the caravan, said Irineo Mujica, director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a group that has since 2010 been staging annual caravans to ensure safe passage for migrants and draw attention to their rights.
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Caravans from Central America have inflamed the debate over U.S. immigration policy, with U.S. President Donald Trump using the migrants to try to secure backing for his plan to build a border wall on the frontier with Mexico.
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A humanitarian group called Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) organizes the caravans to help protect Central American refugees and migrants as they make the perilous journey through Mexico, as well as to highlight their petitions for asylum.
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And yet we also rode horses at dawn through mountain pastures of frosted wildflowers, watched Afghan camel caravans cross the Wakhan Corridor in a snowstorm, and bathed in hot sulfur springs in the mountain air, laughing with locals.
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In Tegucigalpa, the capital, a prominent member of the opposition went to the Mexican Embassy and threatened to send out multiple caravans as long as the situation in Honduras remained the same, according to two senior Mexican officials.
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The administration officials are reportedly also set to discuss the "caravans" of migrants panned by Trump in several tweets this week – a group of nearly 1,100 people traveling through Mexico to find political asylum in the United States.
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The fire also destroyed 30 caravans or cabins, according to the Rural Fire Service Some residents fled to the beach to avoid the flames, as the temperature rose to 41 degrees Celsius (106 Farenheit), as reported by Reuters.
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In the run-up to the 2018 election, Mr. Trump continued to call for the building of a wall and even sent troops to the border to protect Americans from the caravans that were supposedly escorting Muslim terrorists.
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"Despite the Democrat inspired laws on Sanctuary Cities and the Border being so bad and one sided, I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country," Trump tweeted.
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After almost 267 years of resettling refugees -- from Jews fleeing Russia and Eastern Europe in 26.9 to migrant caravans of numerous religious denominations around the world today -- the group has helped more than 21.33 million people escape persecution.
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As he detailed a litany of familiar talking points about caravans marching toward the United States, there was a disgruntled round of groans, punctuated by a couple boos as they looked around at each other, shaking their heads.
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"I am going to be signing a national emergency," Trump said after a long introduction that touched on trade, China, Syria and the caravans of immigrants that Trump made a political issue of ahead of last fall's midterm elections.
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Viridiana Vidal, a representative for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a group that provides logistical aid to migrant caravans like the one currently traveling north through Mexico, told The Hill a major factor in Honduras, for example, is state-sponsored violence.
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He has been unable to work with other nations to control the conditions that spark caravans, so he will let refugees walk all over his failed foreign policy and meet them at the border, right before the midterm elections.
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Caravans of Gold also seeks to put Islam at this reconstructed world's fulcrum and regard it as a force which impelled cultural advance, rather than to associate it with iconoclastic destruction of historical patrimony — stories we know too well.
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"I am going to be signing a national emergency," Trump said after a long introduction that touched on trade, China, Syria and the caravans of immigrants that Trump made a political issue of ahead of last fall's midterm elections.
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Amid Mr. Trump's threats to close the American southwest border over illegal immigration, the Mexican authorities cracked down on migrant caravans and accelerated their efforts to detain and deport Central Americans and others trudging north toward the United States.
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Angered by the caravans, Trump has threatened to cut aid to Central America - the very opposite of what the region needs, said Hector Vasconcelos, a lawmaker for Lopez Obrador's MORENA party, and head of the Senate foreign relations committee.
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And by directing the State Department to revoke aid from the three Northern Triangle countries, Mr. Trump is seeking to punish those countries for what he says is a failure to stop migrant caravans from making their way north.
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"I heard that he was welcoming the caravans," said Ms. Ferrufino Nuñez, 265, who traveled with her son toward Ciudad Juárez, where she is waiting in a shelter for a chance to apply for asylum in the United States.
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Campaigning in Georgia for Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, Mr. Trump delivered a message with all the subtlety of an arsonist's house fire, accusing Democrats of seeking to inflict "more crime and more caravans" upon the country.
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CreditCreditJohn Burke/Science & Society Picture Library, via Getty Images When the American author James A. Michener went to Afghanistan to research his work of historical fiction, "Caravans," it was 1955 and there were barely any roads in the country.
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The caravans of 2018 and early 2019 were not the first of their kind – but they were, all told, the largest and most visible, gaining attention and size partly because U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly warned of their approach.
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As I arrived in the pitch black, I couldn't make out many of the promised amenities — the site contained several other larger Airstream caravans which all shared a kitchen, bathrooms, and hot tub — but I trusted they were there.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday effectively suspended the granting of asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, seeking fresh ways to block thousands of Central Americans traveling in caravans from entering the United States.
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The idea was floated in an email by a top White House policy adviser in November, when Mr. Trump was furiously condemning migrant caravans from Central America headed toward the southwestern border, the people, including two government officials, said.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - The arrival in the Mexican border city of Tijuana of the first few hundred travelers from migrant caravans is stretching to the limit shelters already overflowing with people, and sparking signs of friction among the population.
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Such caravans have taken place regularly, if on a smaller scale, over the years, but U.S. President Donald Trump has seized on the phenomenon this year and made it a rallying call for his Republican base ahead of the Nov.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Unaccompanied minors and other vulnerable migrants risk falling victim to crime in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where thousands of Central Americans from caravans may be stuck for months as authorities tighten up asylum rules, advocates say.
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With the country's currency virtually worthless and air travel beyond the reach of all but elites, buses have become Venezuela's caravans of misery, rolling day and night to its borders and returning largely empty to begin the process all over again.
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Many women and children in the group were planning to seek asylum in the United States after they reach Tijuana, said Rodrigo Abeja, a coordinator from immigrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras that has been organizing similar caravans for several years.
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Although Pueblo Sin Fronteras had organized several previous caravans, including a big one in the spring that attracted 1,500 people, it staunchly opposed the latest effort based on well-founded fears it would stoke anti-immigrant sentiment ahead of the elections.
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Women from Iraq, Syria, Russia, Azerbaijan and Poland, an Indonesian boy and enslaved, traumatized Yazidi girls were among those to emerge over the past 48 hours from the caravans of trucks that trundled to an assembly point outside the enclave.
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Sales of caravans and other recreation vehicles have surged in recent years, rising 8.4 percent in 2017, according to the European Caravan Federation, which said this month that it expects sales to again grow by a single-digit percentage this year.
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"Well because there were other so-called caravans in previous years that have shown up at the border and we treated them like asylum seekers ... it wasn't a crisis by the time it showed up at our border," she replied.
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"I am going to be signing a national emergency," Trump said after a long introduction to his remarks that touched on trade, China and the caravans of immigrants that Trump made a political issue of ahead of last fall's midterm elections.
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Moderate voters do not believe, as the Ocasio-Cortez wing of the Democratic Party does, that illegal immigrants flooding over the border in caravans are "more American" than the law enforcement agents who seek to prevent them from doing so.
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From racist calls targeting Abrams to Trump's characterization of Gillum as a "thief" and his astonishingly wrongheaded efforts to link Democrats to caravans of undocumented immigrants via an ad reminiscent of Willie Horton, racial prejudice and nativism fueled the GOP firewall.
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Since last October, thousands of mostly Central American migrants have sought to cross into the United States, many traveling in caravans in order to minimize the risks of kidnapping and attacks by members of criminal gangs while in Mexican territory.
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In his social media posts, the assailant made frequent anti-Semitic posts and said he believed Jews were at fault for helping transport members of the migrant caravans from Central America, which Trump has been stoking fears about for weeks.
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The number of asylum-seekers from Central America and Venezuela has grown notably in the past month after U.S. President Donald Trump denounced U.S.-bound migrant caravans as an "invasion" and sent troops to the border with Mexico to stop them.
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Central American caravans heading toward the United States have inflamed the debate over U.S. immigration policy, with Trump drawing attention to the bedraggled migrants to try to win backing for his plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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In November, as Mr. Trump railed publicly about the dangers of migrant caravans from Central America, a top White House domestic policy adviser floated the idea of taking migrants who had been apprehended to so-called sanctuary cities represented by Democrats.
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A government statement said the deployment is set to begin on Thursday at La Hachadura, a border crossing with Guatemala near the Pacific coast and where hundreds of Salvadoran migrants have previously attempted to cross as part of large caravans.
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The migrants, some travelling in groups as small as a dozen people while others formed caravans of more than 100, said they planned to unite at the Guatemalan border city of Tecun Uman before crossing together into Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico.
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He has pushed us to the teetering verge of a trade war, has suggested that we hasten withdrawal from Syria, has recommended that we send "the military" to the southern border and railed against caravans of brown people heading our way.
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"It's a new phenomenon that we had not previously experienced," said Mexican Secretary of the Interior Olga Sánchez Cordero at an event in Washington Thursday, adding that the government is evaluating who is organizing caravans, promoting them and leading them.
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Every single day for the past week, the hosts on "Fox & Friends" have been talking about caravans -- sometimes referring to one specific group of migrants that began traveling from Central America in mid-January, other times speaking in broader terms.
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Aid cuts The State Department announced this weekend that the US is cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, just one day after President Trump claimed the countries "set up" migrant caravans for entry into the United States.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, in a series of tweets on Monday, claimed he would declare a "national emergency" over an issue that has frequently piqued his attention -- migrant caravans moving toward the United States through Central America and Mexico.
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It's yet another example of how the President uses vehement threats of terrible consequences that could hurt everyone -- against Mexico over its policing of migrant caravans and against Democrats demanding immediate concessions on immigration -- to try to fulfill his goals.
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JALPAN DE SERRA, Mexico (Reuters) - Poor Central American migrants who form caravans to fend off predatory gangs as they cross Mexico's interior en route to the United States have made global headlines and drawn the ire of President Donald Trump.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of Central American migrants spent weeks traveling north through Mexico in caravans, walking and hitching rides when possible, only for many to give up hope and turn back when they met resistance at the U.S. border.
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The administration has sought ways to block thousands of Central American men, women and children traveling in caravans to escape violence and poverty in their home countries from entering the United States, with Trump calling them a national security threat.
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But, coupled with the Trump administration's latest order allowing military troops to use force to defend border agents, it highlights the growing threat of violence as Central American caravans reach the border only to be met with closed crossings and long lines. Sen.
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In another punitive move, the administration announced it was cutting foreign aid to the Northern Triangle -- the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras -- after the President said it had "set up" migrant caravans for entry into the United States.
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" Derewonko has been a prolific LinkedIn user, sharing and commenting on posts that have stated or insinuated that so-called caravans of Central American migrants were part of an Election Day "false flag" and that the caravan was the UN's "invading force.
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And it's contagious: GOP officials and candidates around the country "have concluded that their best shot at victory is embracing the Trump political playbook of demonization" — including the caravans, now playing in an attack ad near you, the NY Times' Jeremy Peters reports.
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