There's another caravan of foreigners on its way to the United States, traveling across Mexico.
President Donald Trump has already issued a warning to Mexico to stop them, saying that if Mexico did not stop the "illegal march," it would face an increase in tariffs. He was not done:
“MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED,” the president continued. “MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, & ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED. There will be no leniency!”
Trump and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been very clear: the border is shut, you're not getting in.
So why is the caravan coming? Well, we know why. But let's listen to people explain why.
The group set off Tuesday from the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemala border, with some confirming that they were motivated by the prospect of looser US immigration policy following Democrats’ sweeping to power on Capitol Hill last week.
Cesar Sandoval, a 47-year-old Nicaraguan, told AFP that he hoped to have “another chance” to enter the US and said of newly elected Democrats: “We hope they remember that the ones who gave them the vote so they could make it to the Senate and Congress were the sons of Hispanics, the sons of Latinos.”
If that wasn't clear enough, let's hear from this guy with the AK-47 tats on his chest, who said he wanted to come back for economic reasons. "Back" because he was already here and had been deported. He was asked if the reason they were now coming was that the Democrats won the midterms. He replied, "Claro (of course)."
Migrant in the caravan after president Trump threat of a tariff to Mexico, says: “President Sheinbaum let us pass” also he said that some friends in the US told him now that’ democrats have won their was going to be an opportunity for the deported ones to go back. @BenBergquam @RealAmVoice @RaymondAzarM @RAVEspanol
— Oscar Ramirez - Real America’s Voice correspondent (@OscarRamirezTJ) November 13, 2026
So he's telling you right there he's coming for economic reasons, as are other people with whom he's traveling; it's not about any classic understanding of asylum. He's already been deported, so entering illegally again is potentially a more serious crime, if he goes through with it.
"We were waiting for it," he said, saying they heard that if the Democrats won, they were going to let those who were deported come back.
Oh, goody. And why does he think this? This is not just based on some random thoughts imagined by these folks, it's based on what they are hearing from Democrats like the present House Minority Leader and likely incoming Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08).
Here's Jeffries earlier this week making an open-ended comment about working to bring back deported people.
DISGUSTING: Incoming House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) supports bringing back DEPORTED DACA recipients and providing them with money and assistance to “undo the damage that’s been done to the country.”
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) November 11, 2026
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“Certainly. Anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether they are DACA recipients who's been treated unfairly and unjustly by the administration, we need to provide remedial assistance to them and undo the damage that's been done to the country, to law-abiding immigrant families and to the American people over this last 20 months or so.”
I have no doubt they will try to do exactly that, and spend all their time and taxpayer dollars in the process. So much for "affordability." And now that the blue wave swept Texas too, expect some of the border protections that the state put in place to potentially disappear as well.
Two things are standing in the way of the Democrats right now: President Donald Trump and the fact that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and CBP have been funded until September 2029. So Democrats can't cut that funding, although they will doubtless scheme to figure out what, if anything, they can do.
But if we lose in 2028, all of that protection that Trump has put in place at the border could go away. And past 2029, Democrats will most definitely try to cut any future funding.
