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    There Is No Easy Way for Trump to Stop the Latest Caravan

    The president tried prosecuting migrants and separating families but so far hasn’t been able to deter the latest migrant caravan from heading north.
    by Priscilla Alvarez Oct 23, 2018 5 minutes
    Source: Moises Castillo / AP

    President Donald Trump is fuming over a U.S.-bound migrant caravan. Over the course of the past week, he’s posted 15 tweets about the caravan, estimated to consist of as many as 7,000 people, that left from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, earlier this month and has been growing along the way. Trump has placed blame on Democrats, threatened to cut aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and urged an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws despite Congress being out of session.

    He called the caravan an “assault on our country” at a rally Monday night in Houston and said the “Democrats had something to do with” it. Earlier in the day, Trump had pledged to cut off or “substantially” reduce foreign aid to the Northern Triangle countries.

    “They’re paid a lot of money every year.

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