The caravan of migrants thats alarmed President Trump stalls at a soccer field

[octoberlib]

MATIAS ROMERO, MEXICO — After days of walking from Mexico’s southern border, the caravan of hundreds of migrants that has drawn President Trump’s Twitter ire has now halted on a brown-grass soccer field, its participants unsure and anxious about the way forward.

Trump’s comments have turned what had been an annual march of U.S.-bound migrants — an event aimed at highlighting the suffering of Central Americans fleeing home — into something of a political crisis for Mexico.

All of those interviewed Tuesday said that they would prefer to live in the United States but that they would settle for Mexico if that was where they were allowed to stay. Almost anything, they said, would be better than returning to Central America, which has some of the hemisphere’s highest levels of violence.

“There is a barbarous situation in our country,” said Santos Alberto Lino, 40, who had worked as an auto mechanic in Honduras before joining the caravan. “People want to live in peace and harmony.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-caravan-of-migrants-thats-alarmed-president-trump-has-now-stalled/2018/04/03/534b01c2-36aa-11e8-af3c-2123715f78df_story.html?utm_term=.16655e2ca43d

[Hekate]

1. Our crops will rot while these poor souls are used as a political soccer ball.

Damn Trump to Hell.

[octoberlib]

2. I know. I feel so sorry for these people. Trump's demonizing them to rile up his base for the

midterms. All of us will have to payer higher prices because of it.

[left-of-center2012]

3. "hundreds of migrants"

What happened to the "thousands"?

[Tatiana]

4. If these people are sent back to Honduras, they will likely die.

How can these people call themselves Christians?

This is a humanitarian crisis.