A new resource at WOLA’s website provides quick, fact-filled, documented and cited answers to these questions:
- Why are people leaving? And why are they leaving now? (Short answer: violence, corruption, climate, domestic violence, and economics.)
- Can Trump cut aid to Central America? (Short answer: no.)
- Why are people traveling as a caravan? (Short answer: safety in numbers.)
- What happened to the migrant caravan that attracted so much vitriol from President Trump earlier this year? (Short answer: it dwindled to almost nothing.)
- President Trump has threatened to shut down the entire U.S.-Mexico border to forestall anyone from the migrant caravan turning themselves into U.S. authorities to seek asylum, or to cross the border. What would happen if the U.S.-Mexico border is shut down? (Short answer: you’d probably see the effect in the Dow and S&P 500.)
- What is Mexico’s policy towards the migrant caravan? (Short answer: lots of cops and a request for UN help.)
- Will threats mitigate migration flows from Central America? (Short answer: no.)
- Why are Central American countries not stopping caravans? (Short answer: freedom of assembly and movement.)
- What should the U.S. government do if members of the caravan reach the U.S.-Mexico border? (Short answer: it’s a humanitarian and logistical problem, not an “invasion.”)