The Venezuelan migrants had crossed a treacherous jungle and all of Central America. They had waited in Mexico for months for a chance to head north and enter the United States. But after Donald Trump became president, their options, and the road, quickly ran out.
So they decided to turn around — returning south, to the Darien Gap, the dense jungle they never wanted to see again, and beyond it, the autocratic state they had fled.
Growing numbers of migrants — many of them Venezuelan — have made this journey in recent days, a reverse wave of migration in response to Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies.
1. Feels great to have a secure border again. That catch and release terrible policy is Over!
2. In no way did these people walk hundreds of miles let alone thousands of miles. The average person walks a 20-minute mile, on flat ground. Without carrying anything.
3. Why couldn't they stay in Mexico to live? They speak the language, could assimilate well. Oh, that's right. Mexico won't let them. The U.S. WAS the only country where you could just walk over a border and live there permanently. Mexico doesn't give good free goodies too.