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  • 2018-12-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Caravan Migrants Demand $50K from the U.S. to Return Home? (en)
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  • On 12 December 2018, Fox News reported that a group of Central American migrants currently housed in Tijuana, Mexico, and hoping to present asylum claims to the United States had demanded $50,000 each from the Trump administration in exchange for returning home. Although the group that made the demand was relatively small (100-plus people out of a total of the roughly 3,000 housed at El Barretal migrant shelter), the outrageous-sounding headline captured most readers' attention: Migrant group demands Trump either let them in or pay them each $50G to turn around. The Fox News report was aggregated from the work of the San Diego Union-Tribune, which had earlier that day reported that: The Union-Tribune reported that the group demanding money in exchange for turning around and going home was organized by Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa, a 54-year-old Honduran who sought political asylum in Mexico after being accused (falsely, he maintains) by the Honduran government of planting a bomb in a Chinese restaurant that injured six U.S. soldiers and a civilian in 1987. Ulloa joined the caravan in early November 2018 and viewed it as something of a political cause, according to the Union-Tribune: The Trump administration has sought to require that Central American migrants apply for asylum in the safe third country of Mexico rather than in the U.S. According to the Union-Tribune, roughly 2,500 have already done so, but humanitarian groups -- including the international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) -- maintain that Mexico (still a developing country) is not safe for many of them, with women, children, and members of the LGBT community particularly vulnerable to violence in Mexico: The migrants arrived in Tijuana roughly one month before the Fox News report. As they traveled north in a caravan that originated in northern Honduras on 12 October 2018, they were a constant target of hoaxes and misinformation, particularly in the lead-up to the 6 November 2018 midterm elections in the U.S. (en)
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