Caravan organizers abandon the people they seduced into making trip

Monica Showalter:

With the caravan in Tijuana descending into a sozzled mess and den of pestilence, caravan organizers Pueblo Sin Fronteras now say they have nothing to do with it and seem to have skipped town.

Get a load of the interesting stories within this long piece that ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune that begins with a migrant thinking about going back to Honduras (emphasis mine):

"I think this is the end," Benavides said.

The experience taught her not to believe things as they appear, she said. Many in the caravan have said they felt deceived by the messages they received along the way about what awaited them at the U.S. border.

The caravan had leaders as it traveled north, Benavides said, but she hadn't seen them since Sunday's march to the border.

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The reporter seems to be a good reporter, but she doesn't have a clue as to what's happening here: the caravan organizers are realizing that their political project to challenge Donald Trump at the border is a disastrous mess and, instead of taking responsibility for it, are now abandoning the people they used for the television cameras and saying they had nothing to do with it. The migrants they lured to the caravan via flyers and social media and press appearances were useful so long as the moms and kids and strollers put the political heat onto the U.S., but now that the truth is out about who they really are – military-aged young men, mostly – and they're sitting in a squalid camp waiting their turn for entry same as anyone else, they're no longer an advertisement about how to immigrate easily into the U.S. (actually, they're the opposite). So now the organizers are gone. Packed up and left the circus. Missing. AWOL. Nowhere to be found. Their website hasn't been updated since advertising for last week's border confrontation. And the mayor of Tijuana says he wants them arrested.

Now they're denying they ever had anything to do with the migrant caravan....
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The US should find those responsible for the march and prosecute them under RICO to sue them for the cost of dealing with the mess they have made.  That should also lead to finding out who financed the operation, to begin with.