A migrant caravan of at least 5,000 people from the Caribbean and Central/South America is advancing on foot toward the United States after leaving southern Mexico on Monday. The massive march (the largest seen this year) set out after migrants grew tired of waiting on Mexico’s slow visa application process…but according to one of the group’s organizers, the true blame lies in the Biden administration “dropping the ball.”
“This is not normal. This is being used by the countries to make sure they get what they want from the United States,” caravan organizer Irineo Mujica told the cable network Real America’s Voice on Monday. Mujica, a US citizen and self-described “human rights defender for almost 70 years,” has been accompanying the group of migrants since they set out.
“Joe Biden has lost. I’m completely stunned,” he continued. “Where is the American intelligence? Don’t they know that all the countries are conspiring against the United States to make sure they have this crisis being made so that they can charge for that crisis?”
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According to Mujica, this latest caravan consists of migrants hailing from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Venezuela. The group has reportedly spent weeks sheltering near the town of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border, where Mexico’s migrant processing center is located.
The Mexican government is notoriously slow in processing work and travel visas even when not overrun by tens of thousands of refugees and economic migrants, leaving many people living in squalor unable to work. Some members of this group even offered to help with cleanup efforts in the coastal resort city of Acapulco, which was devastated by a hurricane last week, in exchange for visas—but the Mexican government rejected their offer.
With few options available in Mexico, the caravan has set its sights on America’s southern border, which Mujica says has been left entirely open under President Joe Biden’s watch. “Joe Biden has a lot to learn,” Mujica said. “I think the policies of Joe Biden are worse than the ones that Trump because Trump at least knew what to say to make sure he doesn’t fuel immigration. He didn’t lose the ball. The United States has lost the respect of all the countries. [Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador] has more power to pull them in and make sure he gets what he wants from the United States.”
But the migrant crisis does not just represent an internal policy failure by the United States. Rather, it is a deliberate conspiracy by cartel-linked South and Central American governments to earn a profit while weakening American influence.
“Do you think [Colombian President Gustavo Petro] really cares about the United States when this makes in one day 7,000 people paying $500, $300, $800?” Mujica asked. “Of course, he makes more money with…the cartels in Sinaloa than all the power the United States might give him.”
“Every country has just been providing the rights, charging them 20, 30 or 40 dollars and then just pushing them in…hold them up, weaponize them, let them go, and make sure Joe Biden gives them money,” he continued. “As an American citizen, I would say do not give Mexico or any of those countries that are completely responsible with immigration, give them zero cents.”
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