Did you know that Latin America, source of a current migrant caravan is home to 38% of world homicides, just 8% population?

... migrants are less likely than people in their host countries to die of heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and other ills: “The exceptions are hepatitis, tuberculosis and HIV.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/migrants-don-t-bring-disease-fact-they-help-fight-it-n944146

The health crisis created by the influx of Venezuelans fleeing to neighboring countries. The migrants are spreading malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue, tuberculosis and AIDS throughout South America. Many of the diseases had been considered eradicated in the neighboring Latin American countries, according to government officials cited in the article, which states that “contagion from Venezuela’s economic meltdown is starting to spread to neighboring countries—not financially, but literally, in the form of potentially deadly diseases carried among millions of refugees.” As an example, the story reveals that “measles reappeared with a vengeance” in a Brazilian city near the Venezuelan border that had declared the highly contagious airborne disease “vanquished” nearly two decades ago. “Measles is already spreading beyond the Brazilian Amazon to other Brazilian states, as well as Colombia, Peru and as far south as Argentina, according to recent Pan American Health Organization reports,” the article states. “Other diseases racing through communities in Venezuela are now crossing borders and raising concerns among health authorities as far away as the U.S.”

https://www.larepublica.co/globoeconomia/venezuelas-health-crisis-is-crossing-the-border-2789711

U.S. empire thrives on amnesia.

A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis

At the margins of the mainstream discursive stalemate over immigration lies over a century of historical U.S. intervention that politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle seem determined to silence. Since Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 declared the U.S.’s right to exercise an “international police power” in Latin America, the U.S. has cut deep wounds throughout the region, leaving scars that will last for generations to come. This history of intervention is inextricable from the contemporary Central American crisis of internal and international displacement and migration.

The liberal rhetoric of inclusion and common humanity is insufficient: we must also acknowledge the role that a century of U.S.-backed military coups, corporate plundering, and neoliberal sapping of resources has played in the poverty, instability, and violence that now drives people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras toward Mexico and the United States. For decades, U.S. policies of military intervention and economic neoliberalism have undermined democracy and stability in the region, creating vacuums of power in which drug cartels and paramilitary alliances have risen. In the past fifteen years alone, CAFTA-DR — a free trade agreement between the U.S. and five Central American countries as well as the Dominican Republic — has restructured the region’s economy and guaranteed economic dependence on the United States through massive trade imbalances and the influx of American agricultural and industrial goods that weaken domestic industries. Yet there are few connections being drawn between the weakening of Central American rural agricultural economies at the hands of CAFTA and the rise in migration from the region in the years since. In general, the U.S. takes no responsibility for the conditions that drive Central American migrants to the border.

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https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148

Tijuana municipal delegate Genaro Lopez says approximately 280 members of the caravan have been arrested in his city since they arrived a few weeks ago.

“Things aren’t getting better, they are probably getting worse,” Lopez said. He explained that people living on the street has created a problem and at least one school in the area is closed because of the caravan. Last weekend the city of Tijuana was prepared to issue an ultimatum to caravan members to leave or face removal by force.

But the director of disaster relief for Mexico City (?) had issued an order preventing the city from removing the caravan.

“So they’re still here; problems are still going on,” Lopez said. He continued, “There have been like 280 arrests. Before it was only for drug possession and being drunk in the streets. Now it’s for breaking and entering into the homes…The neighborhood is tired of them, the merchants and the schools.”

Asked how he knew the home break-ins were the work of caravan members, Lopez replied, “Yeah, there’s a video on Facebook and in the video, he says his name and he says he’s from Honduras.”

Why should USA want to absorb this significant cost of hosting so-called migrants?

There are, astoundingly, 14,794 golf courses in the United States, according to the National Golf Foundation — more than twice the number of the roughly 6,000 individuals currently in Tijuana seeking asylum.

Yes, there are enough golf courses in the United States for every adult and child asylum-seeker in Tijuana to have their own entire course — and there would still be nearly 9,000 left over!

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/khurypetersensmith/more-golf-courses-than-refugees-at-the-border

Why don't they just pay the smugglers to get them across into Mexico?

After all, we all know who really controls the border.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-me-immigration-attorneys-detained-20190202-story.html

The only question now is whether the Drug Cartels will let them pass thru Border Towns.

Soros $$$ should grease the transaction easily.

https://apnews.com/dd5ae829d12e46c7a40029dcd3c9b2e5

Again, if you take out China and India from population figures, this percentage all changes

The difference is the culture wrote:

Did you know that Latin America, source of a current migrant caravan is home to 38% of world homicides, just 8% population?

Seems like a pretty good reason for those who are not violent criminals to want to leave and seek refuge elsewhere.

here's a comparison wrote:

There are, astoundingly, 14,794 golf courses in the United States, according to the National Golf Foundation — more than twice the number of the roughly 6,000 individuals currently in Tijuana seeking asylum.

Yes, there are enough golf courses in the United States for every adult and child asylum-seeker in Tijuana to have their own entire course — and there would still be nearly 9,000 left over!

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Yeah, but what about Twinkies? Are there enough Twinkies for everyone?

Here's a good up-close look at how the border (USA-Mexico) works.

Even the left half of the second picture is rather droll.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzPUpTiWkAAzQpo.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzPV0dpX4AENyFr.jpg

Though only about 3% of the adult population, the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that 75 percent of all criminal defendants who were convicted and sentenced for federal drug offenses were illegal immigrants.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/crime/329589-the-truth-about-crime-illegal-immigrants-and-sanctuary-cities