What a difference a presidency makes. Another migrant caravan is now heading north through Mexico, but unlike previous caravans, this one has no intention of coming to the U.S. The 1,200-person group, mostly Cubans, is moving from Southern Mexico to Mexico City, where they plan to petition the Mexican government for asylum. "Why would I want to go to the United States? said one woman in the caravan, noting they would not be welcome here.
This is a far cry from the last few years under the Biden administration, when large caravans regularly crossed through Mexico to get to the U.S. border. One group even stormed a border checkpoint in El Paso last year, while another caravan was only broken up after hundreds of migrants spent days camping under a bridge in Del Rio. Bob Price with Breitbart Texas, who has covered the border and these caravans for years, says migrants have finally gotten the message that the U.S. border is closed. "This is actually what (migrants) should have been doing before," he tells KTRH. "You're supposed to apply for asylum in the first safe country you come to, and their line all along was that Mexico was not a safe country...but now it appears it's just fine."
With southern border crossings at a record low and immigration enforcement operations underway in cities across the U.S., these caravans that once brazenly dared America to stop them have now changed their tune and decided to stay south of the border. Call it a lesson in deterrence. "I've been saying for years that the only thing that will stop the migrant crisis at the border is the certain knowledge that if they cross the border illegally, they will be returned and they will not be admitted into the United States," says Price. "And President Trump has demonstrated that that is the case...and you see that now, with these record low attempts to even enter the United States illegally."
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