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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Very Scary Caravan"
?1522929649Central American migrant children taking part in the 'Migrant Viacrucis' caravan towards the United States, watch a show by 'Chocolate', a clown, as they camp at a sports complex in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico, on April 4,...
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Post op-ed for Thursday: @GeorgeWill @EJDionne @ktumulty and @MaxBoot, on Trump and the "caravan": "What horrors will be visited upon the United States if it were to act with a smidgen of kindness and allow a few of the Hondurans in?"
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How the Caravan Story Exploded on the Right
April 5, 201
New York Times: It was the kind of story destined to take a dark turn through the conservative news media and grab President Trumps attention: A vast horde of migrants was making its way through Mexico toward the United States, and no one was stopping them.
The story of the caravan followed an arc similar to many events whether real, embellished or entirely imagined involving refugees and migrants that have roused intense suspicion and outrage on the right. The coverage tends to play on the fears that hiding among mass groups of immigrants are many criminals, vectors of disease and agents of terror. And often the president, who announced his candidacy by blaming Mexico for sending rapists and drug dealers into the United States, acts as an accelerant to the hysteria.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/caravan-conservative-media-immigration.html?smid=tw-share
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"The Very Scary Caravan" (Original Post)
kpete
Apr 2018
OP
So wait...We're supposed to be terrified of a *Caravan* that ends up at a *soccer field*.
Tommy_Carcetti
Apr 2018
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randr
(12,418 posts)1. The media should be looked at this phenomenom closely
The American people need to understand what drives people to our borders.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,450 posts)2. That sounds like a spooky children's story.
A story told by right-wing parents, anyway.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)3. Gosh I wonder what the Christians think about this?
"whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me"
So they are into kicking their savior, the son of god, square in the teeth
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,224 posts)4. So wait...We're supposed to be terrified of a *Caravan* that ends up at a *soccer field*.
Exactly what are we supposed to be afraid of?
That they go out for ice cream afterwards?
sweetroxie
(776 posts)5. Eek!!! They're all brown!
Heaven help us!