Mexico offers caravan migrants benefits to stay; thousands refuse

Mexico offers caravan migrants benefits to stay; thousands refuse.  Yeah, there’s Mexican benefits and then there’s US benefits. They’re going for the gold.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced what he called the “You are at home” plan, offering shelter, medical attention, schooling and jobs to Central Americans in Chiapas and Oaxaca states if they applied, calling it a first step toward permanent refugee status. Authorities said more than 1,700 had already applied for refugee status.

But after one of the caravan’s longest days of walking and hanging from passing trucks, the bulk of the migrants were boisterous Friday evening in their refusal to accept anything less than safe passage to the U.S. border.

CO2Insanity: Tired of the CO2 BS and all the other BS in the US and the world.

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