DOJ charges 11 possible caravan members with illegally entering the US

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Laura Jarrett and Darran Simon, CNN

Updated 12:17 AM ET, Tue May 1, 2018

(CNN)The Department of Justice on Monday filed complaints against 11 individuals believed to be members of the Central American migrant caravan, accusing them of illegally entering the United States.

After a month-long journey by bus, train and on foot, about 100 migrants arrived at the San Ysidro port of entry on the US-Mexico border on Sunday evening, preparing to claim asylum. Twenty to 30 migrants spent Sunday night in front of the turnstiles leading to the US side of the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. An organizer of the caravan said they would remain at the immigration processing center until "every last one is admitted into the United States."

Eight migrants from the caravan were being processed by US officials, the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras and two observers said Monday night.

Two Salvadorans, six Hondurans, two Guatemalans and a Mexican national face charges, according to federal complaints. They are currently in custody.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/us/doj-charges-migrant-caravans-members/index.html

[S.E. TN Liberal]

1. Literally at the gates of the "Land of the Free". nm

[Cold War Spook]

2. Try to get a lawyer from one of the groups helping illegals.

Tell them you want a hearing. There are only about 600,000 cases they have to hear first.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Fuck the corporate media "caravan" label. It is racist and Trump loves it that the word has

been used as a default term. Shameful.

100 asylum seeking PEOPLE. How hard is that? Too long a phrase? Then fuck you again.

[SunSeeker]

4. Exactly. nt

[Igel]

5. The term was used long before Trump heard it. And repeated it.

It was used by sympathizers long before Trump tweeted it. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42357009 is an example, and not the earliest that a quick search turns up.

It's also a correct term for this: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/caravan

1. a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.

2. any group traveling in or as if in a caravan and using a specific mode of transportation, as pack animals or motor vehicles:
a caravan of trucks; a camel caravan.

3. a large covered vehicle for conveying passengers, goods, a sideshow, etc.; van.

4. Chiefly British. a house on wheels; trailer.

Then there's the Dodge Caravan.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Thing is, definitions can be twisted and distorted and propagandized...as happened here.