When first I heard the expression "Caravan of Asylum Seekers", frankly, despite being a long time resident of Central America, it was completely new to me. A "google" search of whether such a thing was ever reported prior to the Trump Administration revealed no entries and as far as I can find, never occurred, for example, in Obama's time in office, or even, for that matter, in Bush's administration.
To suddenly have happened would have required the assistance of so-called "coyotes" who would have spread spread rumors, by word of mouth, to the effect that, this was a viable method to get through. It never happened before because our State Department had contacts to get word of mouth through radio programs to the small towns. Somewhere the system brokedown; as late as the second year of the Trump Administartion, publications such as Bloomberg, were lamenting the fact that there were gaping vacancies in our State Depatment that had still not been filled.
I believe that a wall, a device that can be breached, scaled or tunneled under, is not what's needed but our broken government needs mending.
The caravans are another example of a problem that cannot be resolved without global(at least hemispheric ) consensus and cooperation.The odds are against this since the U.S. example and leadership are,not only missing under Trump,but on the wrong side of reason.
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