{"id":21097,"date":"2019-02-28T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21097"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:10:50","slug":"if-it-looks-like-an-invasion-it-probably-is-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/02\/28\/if-it-looks-like-an-invasion-it-probably-is-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"If It Looks Like An Invasion, It Probably Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In\nlate 2018, Politifact<\/a><\/em>\nran an article titled \u201cIs the Migrant Caravan an Invasion.\u201d Unsurprisingly, the\nso-called \u201cfact checker,\u201d concluded that it is not. According to experts cited\nby Politifact<\/em>, \u201cInvasions are armed\noperations organized with the intention of taking control of foreign sovereign\nterritory through the use of force.” And, since \u201cthe migrants are not\narmed, organized, or intending to take control of U.S. territory,” their\nattempts to cross the border \u2013 illegally, en\nmasse<\/em> \u2013 don\u2019t constitute an invasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there are a number of border officials who might disagree with the fact checkers. In January of 2019<\/a> \u2013 shortly after Politifact<\/em>, and several other mainstream media outlets took umbrage at the comparison of illegal aliens to invaders \u2013 a group of caravan migrants attacked border patrol agents<\/a> with rocks and rushed the border. Their violent behavior was hardly that of people just trying to get away<\/a> from poverty, crime and civil strife. And, despite pundits\u2019 claims<\/a> to the contrary it looked an awful lot like an attempted invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet another migrant caravan has begun snaking its way from the troubled Northern Triangle, toward the United States. Mexico, finally growing tired of continual assaults on its sovereignty, sent officers from its immigration agency \u2013 the Instituto Nacional de Migraci\u00f3n (INM) \u2013 to stop the caravanners. The migrants, ostensibly still peaceful and just<\/em> fleeing chaos and corruption, viciously attacked the unarmed INM officials with rocks. The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/em> posted footage of the confrontation. Once again, it looked more like an invasion than the arrival of pacifist mendicants seeking alms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So,\nmaybe it\u2019s time to take another look at the migrant caravans using the\nstandards relied upon by Politifact<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n