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The bulk of the caravan will bring up the rear of those roughly 900 migrants who left Mexico City on Friday. Many were antsy to get going after having spent most of the week in the sports complex.
"Vamonos, vamonos," shouted Eddy Rivera, a 37-year-old 'skinny-as-a-peso' migrant from Honduras who said in Spanish that he couldn't take staying in the camp any longer. [It is quite likely that Eddy suffers from Generalized Anxiety Disorder due to his chronic impatience.]
"We are all sick from the humidity and the cold," Rivera said, pissing off the global warming supporters of the movement. Eddy left behind his wife and four children in order to find a better life for himself. "We have to get going we have to get to Tijuana," he shouted, again in Spanish.
Rivera is a highly unskilled farmworker whose knowledge of farming is similar to that of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's knowledge of economics and Israel.
He worries that he won't be allowed in the United States but says he has a simple dream: he's walking down the road and a frog talks to him and says, "Hola Eddy. ¿Que pasa." The frog then tells him about a farm down the road that's looking to hire illegal migrants to work the manure spreader and kill rats in the silo.
Rivera also hopes to return to Honduras and join back up with his wife and four kids back in Puerto Cortes, Honduras.
Many of the migrants plan to jump turnstiles in the subway and grab a ride to the northern part of Mexico City and then head on to Queretaro, followed by Guadalajara, Culiacan and Hermosillo, until they arrive in Tijuana near the U.S. border, said Nashieli Ramirez, director of Mexico's Human Rights Commission. According to Ramirez [whose gender is unclear to me as I never took Spanish in colegio] fully 90 percent of the 4,000 migrants still in Mexico City will depart before dawn Saturday and 400 have decided to stay in Mexico. [Give those 400 a prize, Dana.]
For many migrants, this will be their introduction to a metro system. They also have virtually no knowledge of the city or the 1,741 mile route to Tijuana that lies in store. Drug cartels and gangs operate all over the northern part of Mexico and Ramirez said that along the route, state human rights commissions would form a "chain of protection" for the caravan, because they aren't afraid of the cartels or gangs because like the migrants, this would be their introduction to violence if the cartels are in the mood.
Felix Rodriguez, 35, of Choluteca, Honduras spent over a week at the sport complex. "We all want to get moving," he said, but he was waiting for the main group to saddle up Saturday because "it is better to leave in a group, because leaving in small bunches is dangerous."
A previous caravan in the spring decided on the longer route to Tijuana for safety reasons. That caravan had dwindled down to only 200 or so people by the time they reached the border.
Mexico offered refuge, asylum or work visas to the migrants. The Mexican government said 2,697 temporary visas had been issued to individuals and families to cover them while they wait for the 45-day application process for a more permanent status. Last Wednesday, a bus from Mexico City returned 37 people to their countries of origin.
President Trump has deployed over 5,000 military troops to the border to help fend off the migrant invasion that Jim Acosta doesn't agree is an invasion.
When asked by Brain Flushings' Vinny Boombots whether he would be willing to accept a migrant family into his home, Acosta dropped the mic, ran his fingers through his hair, and walked away.
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