Video: Who Is Behind the Caravan?
This is a terrific video. Dennis Prager's Prager U funded it.
This is the way to do a video: on the cheap. The video technology is cheap. The main cost was to pay the researcher/interviewer and the camcorder crew.
Here are the rules of good investigative journalism.
Follow the money.
Follow the confession (worldview).
Follow the media.
Follow the organizations.
I discuss this here: https://www.garynorth.com/members/12060.cfm
The video is not good on following the money, but it is good on the other three.
This video gets the message across: these are not starving families. They are young men looking for jobs. . . and wives if they get jobs. They remind me of Chinese immigrants to California after 1850: the gold rush, then the railroads.
I found the United Nations connection to be illuminating . . . and no surprise.
One thing is clear from this video: these men are not fleeing political repression. They are fleeing a rotten economy, which includes the narco gangs, which exist only because of the drug laws of the United States. If these men get into the country, they are going to clog the courts with phony cases of political repression. This is how radical groups are going to "game the system."
They are going to have to be held in detention somewhere until their court hearings. That will give the Left lots of opportunities to criticize the Trump administration for doing what the Obama administration did, and which all previous administrations did.
THE LEGAL ISSUES
Former Judge Andrew Napolitano has described the legal issues facing every political administration. (He served as a state judge in New Jersey from 1987 to 1995. He has since become a television personality and columnist. He is an expert in U.S. constitutional law.)
The likely claim of the folks in the caravan will be political asylum. Political asylum requires the claimant to demonstrate an intolerable situation in the home country caused by the government — not by economic forces — and aimed at the person seeking asylum. Thus, the failure of the government in the country of origin to protect basic natural rights or to enforce basic criminal laws — for example, permitting criminal gangs to rule — is a valid basis for asylum, whereas loss of a job is not.Once an asylum-seeker has so much as the tip of her shoe on American soil, she can file an asylum claim. The claim entitles her to a hearing before an immigration judge. Most of these hearings take six to eight months after the claim has been filed to reach a judge. In the Obama years, asylum claimants were set free until their hearings. The Trump administration has detained them and separated children from their parents. The detentions are lawful; the family separations are not.
I strongly recommend that you read the entire article. It is posted here.
Meanwhile, for as long as the United Nations and other ideologically motivated organizations are willing to spend money to transport these people in trucks from the southern Mexican border to the southern United States border, this is going to escalate. The Mexican government can stop it by refusing to let them cross into Mexico. Will the new Mexican president do so? We're going to find out, beginning on December 1.