(11-26-2024, 05:09 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(11-26-2024, 05:01 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: From your own link:

Migrant caravans began forming in 2018, and they became a final, desperate hope for poorer migrants who do not have the money to pay smugglers. If migrants try to cross Mexico alone or in small groups, they are often either detained by authorities and sent back to southern Mexico, or worse, deported back to their home countries. In that sense, there is safety in numbers: it is hard or impossible for immigration agents to detain groups of hundreds of migrants. So police and immigration agents often try to pick off smaller groups, and wait for the main body of the caravan to tire itself out. Usually the caravans stop or fall apart within 150 miles (250 kilometers).

Your boy mikesez said that there was "no caravan".  The links prove otherwise.  Whether or not they make it to the U.S. is irrelevant in this case.

Okay.  You are correct.  

So Trump says, "I am going to impose tariffs if Mexico doesn't stop the caravans which are coming to our Southern border."  And in response, the Mexican President says, "We've already done that.  Caravans no longer reach the Southern border."  Which, according to your link, is true.  

So it wasn't the threat of tariffs that caused them to say caravans would not get to the Southern border.    

Understand?

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