{"id":17966,"date":"2018-12-12T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17966"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:25:12","slug":"caravanners-to-trump-pay-us-50k-and-well-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/12\/12\/caravanners-to-trump-pay-us-50k-and-well-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Caravanners to Trump: Pay Us $50K and We\u2019ll Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the beginning, the migrant caravan massed along our southern border failed to match the portrait<\/a> painted by the mainstream media: a tired, poor, huddled mass of yearning to breathe free.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s sketch doesn\u2019t comport with the violent, messy reality. The caravan forced<\/a> its way into Mexico, from Guatemala<\/a>. Once in Mexico, it threw rocks and sticks at Mexican police<\/a> who attempted to halt the caravan\u2019s advance. Then caravan members began refusing food and water offered by Mexican citizens because they wanted soda and pizza<\/a> instead. As soon as the group arrived in Tijuana<\/a>, they began leaving bottles of urine<\/a> and mountains of trash all over the city.<\/p>\n

In a prior blog, I mentioned an old saying of which my grandmother<\/a> was fond, \u201cBeggars can\u2019t be choosers.\u201d It\u2019s a folksy way of expressing the notion that when you rely on others for charity, it\u2019s just plain rude to demand something other than what a gracious benefactor is willing to provide.<\/p>\n

Apparently, that\u2019s a saying the caravan members never learned. According to Fox News<\/em><\/a> and The San Diego Union Tribune<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> on Tuesday December 11, 2018, two groups of caravanners presented ultimatums to the U.S. Consul General in Tijuana. They made the following demands:<\/p>\n