Through the above paragraph is a gross overstatement, President Trump has said the soldiers should shoot to kill if rocks are thrown against them. The latest report I can find on the location of the Caravan shows them to be over 800 mi from the U.S. border. on November 1* Estimates are that the Caravan has shrunk from 7,000 to about 4,000 including 2,300 children. As of November 1st, the Caravan is said to be about 896 mi. from the closest border crossing at Reynosa, Mexico, near McAllen, TX.
The claim is that the group is traveling 30-35 mi. a day, a figure I consider totally suspect, even without so many children. Personally, the most I have walked in a day is 21 mi. and had blisters all over my feet. These people must be in excellent shape to walk 30-35 mi. a day, day after day. But accepting the figure, it will take them a month to reach the closest point of the U.S. well after Thanksgiving if they can keep it up.*
November 18: Reports are that some of the Caravan is at the border in Tijuana.** Apparently, they are arriving by bus and more buses are arriving daily so they cheated and haven't walked the whole way. I'm not surprised. I wonder who is paying for the buses? Apparently, around 350 arrived as long ago as November 13, but most are still far from the border.
* https://www.newsweek.com/where-migrant-caravan-and-when-will-it-reach-us-border-1196055
** https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/18/world/americas/mexico-tijuana-migrants-caravan.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Video
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/13/migrant-caravan-some-border-most-mexico-far-us/1992059002/
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