The migrant caravan that disembarked from Honduras isn't happening close enough to a U.S. election for Republicans to profitably pretend that it’s an emergency. zakcheneyrice writes
Children in a migrant caravan leaving Honduras, January 2020. Photo: Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images As the 2018 midterms bore down on the American people, many were alarmed to learn of a menacing stowaway: A caravan of migrants heading north from Central America.
So for a month leading up to the elections, airwaves from Trump’s rally speeches to Fox News’ evening shows to the Twitter accounts of imperiled Republican congressmen were clogged with lies and conspiracy theories about what ills the migrants heralded. Their impending arrival was a national emergency, to hear the president tell it. “Unknown Middle Easterners” peppered their ranks. They were being bankrolled, alternately, by Venezuela, George Soros, and the Democratic Party.
It was telling that both the White House and conservative media fell almost totally silent about the caravan the minute the election was over. A lack of opportunistic utility seems to have provoked a similar silence around the latest development. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that a new migrant caravan had disembarked from Honduras.
Paired with the implementation of the president’s family separation policy earlier in 2018, his pre-election doomsaying around the caravan escalated the naked cruelty toward refugees, asylum seekers, and other Latin American migrants that’s long been a centerpiece of U.S. immigration policy. But it didn’t sway the midterms in the direction he’d hoped. Aside from gaining two U.S.
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