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Question

Any thoughts about who is payinig for this?

Oct 22, 2018 10:49AM PDT

Caravan thru Mexico....7000 strong now X $7000 each, give or take = $49 MILLION dollars even with hurricane force weather coming right at them from two separate but simultaneous storms (one an actual hurricane, the other a tropical storm).

Who organized this just before our election, do you think? And would be willing to put children at risk? From news reports from various sources, most are traveling via vans and trucks and only get out and actually walk when news cameras are in place to tape it.....and everybody except Fox has noticed and estimated that 90% of them are young, healthy men between the ages of 15 and 35 (the rest are women and children), and from every newsfeed that I've seen, NONE of them appear to be underweight or even in tattered clothing. IF they had no jobs where they are coming from HOW are they eating so well and buying pretty decent looking clothing?

If I sound unsympathetic, I am......I just can't buy the "We're running away to have better lives" garbage when NONE of them are seeking asylum in MEXICO and everyone I've seen interviewed so far have all stated they are heading to the USA deliberately. Mexico is an international country that offers asylum, so why not ask for it there instead since they are already in that country and out of 'harm's way'?

There are a ton of US immigration attorneys traveling with them, and at least one person interviewed admitted that he was being 'taught' how to answer questions at the US border when he asks for 'asylum'....

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(NT) Bad government.
Oct 22, 2018 1:35PM PDT
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(NT) Whose?
Oct 22, 2018 2:11PM PDT
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(NT) Man's.
Oct 22, 2018 6:23PM PDT
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(NT) So which man's bad government is paying for this?
Oct 23, 2018 4:24AM PDT
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they got nothing, because....
Oct 23, 2018 5:48AM PDT

....like in the movie, "they can't handle the truth".

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Who's paying for this
Oct 23, 2018 11:50PM PDT

No idea.
The repubs seem to be getting the most political mileage out of it.
Might be an indication of which side of the aisle is paying.

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According to foreign intel
Oct 24, 2018 3:35AM PDT

it's US left wing groups and Venezuela...………it's backfiring on them.