These "caravans" are not a new deal.. been around for years.. never a problem that could not be handled.
Only trump insists it is some sort of emergency..
This article from last year contains some of the real deal and some of the orange rants..
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sd-me-refugee-caravan-20180403-story.htmlhe Central American caravan headed north toward the United States through Mexico may have attracted the attention of President Donald Trump and others for good reason — it’s one of the largest since the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras began staging its annual pilgrimage through Mexico a decade ago.
The caravan has come as Mexico has seen an increase in asylum requests, said Maureen Meyer of the Washington, D.C.-based think thank Washington Office on Latin America. Requests have risen from 3,424 in 2015 to 14,596 last year.
“Mexico is seen more and more as a destination, but other individuals and families certainly continued to see the United States as an option,” Meyer said.
The Pueblo Sin Fronteras caravan has drawn members of entire families, but also unaccompanied adolescents, single women and fathers with children. Mujica said the numbers included 300 children and 400 women. Though 1,500 launched from Tapachula in southern Mexico on March 25, they have not all remained with the caravan, which was down to 1,050 on Monday.
Though the Pueblo Sin Fronteras caravan has been staged for years, it drew relatively little attention until Trump began tweeting.
President Trump said that “these big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act!”
In fact, the people in the caravan would not qualify for DACA, or deferred action for childhood arrivals. Mujica said that caravan participants “don’t have any idea about DACA.”
While authorities in Mexico had not sought to detain the caravan as of Monday, Mexican government statistics show that authorities deport large numbers of Central Americans from the country. Last year’s total was 76,433, according to statistics from Mexico’s Ministry of Interior; of those, 35,133 came from Guatemala, while 29,002 came from Honduras.
In January and February, Mexico deported nearly 16,000 Central Americans, statistics showed, with the highest numbers from Guatemala and Honduras.
While the caravan has been moving northward, “it would be foolish to say that this is a signal that Mexico is doing nothing to stop Central Americans or others from reaching the U.S.-Mexico border,” said Meyer of the Washington Office on Latin America.
The caravan participants, “are not a security risk to the United States,” Meyer said. “This should be treated more as a humanitarian situation and not some threat to the U.S. Families are hoping that the United States will protect them from their own countries.”
The caravan has been has been taking place for several years, “but this is the first time that Donald Trump has made an issue of it,” said Eric Olson, deputy director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. “The way the Trump administration wants to spin this is that this is about Mexicans letting Central Americans into the United States, but that is not what is going on.”
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sd-me-refugee-caravan-20180403-story.html