Trump’s Caravan Of Misinformation

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MCALLEN, TX - AUGUST 15: Honduran immigrant Brian Alexander, 7, stands in line for a bus with his father and other immigrants on August 15, 2016 in McAllen, Texas. Central American immigrant families, who had crossed into Texas from Mexico, were processed at a U.S. Border Patrol center, given temporary legal documents and sent to their destination city, while their asylum petitions move through U.S. immigration courts. The families are assisted by the Catholic Sacred Heart Church Immigrant Respite Center. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is now on his third day of tweet-storming about at a caravan of Hondurans heading through Mexico and then onto the U.S. border. This kind of caravan is nothing new, but the safe bet is that Trump learned about it watching “Fox & Friends” this past Sunday. So what is this caravan? The answer depends on whether you read reliable news or watch Fox.

The New York Times reports:

“It has become a regular occurrence, particularly around the Easter holiday: scores or even hundreds of Central American migrants making their way north by foot and vehicle from southern Mexico. They include everyone from infants to the elderly, fleeing violence and poverty in their homelands.”

On the flip side here is what Fox News’ Tucker Carlson says:

“A caravan of more than 1,000 border jumpers is traveling across Mexico toward our southern border. We don’t know anything about them, we don’t know whether they’re gang members. The Left’s attitude: Shut up, America, and stop complaining.”

But the person complaining the loudest is the Alarmist in Chief.

According to Reuters, Trump is dead wrong about Mexican law: “Under Mexican law, Central Americans who enter Mexico legally are generally allowed to move freely through the country, even if their goal is to cross illegally into the United States.”

And as NBC News reports:

“If the caravan attempts to cross the border in a group, participants will be stopped or apprehended, according to Kevin Johnson, dean of the University of California, Davis, School of Law. The majority of the migrants are expected to seek asylum if they cross into the United States. (Otherwise, they would likely be deported immediately — sometimes on the same day — under existing law.)

Asylum seekers are screened with a “credible fear interview” within weeks of their arrival, Gilman said. If they do not pass, they are deported immediately.”

What we found on our visit to the border was primarily women and children so scared for their own lives and for their children that many of them walk from Central America to Texas.  For more on their struggle, please check out our recent report “Exodus to America.”

Buzzfeed has had a correspondent traveling with the caravan:

He reported last night that the Mexican government may try to disband the group.

This is a developing story.  We will continue to update.