How Trump Promoted Myths About The Caravan Of Migrants?

President Donald Trump is spreading misleading rhetoric about the nature of Central American migrants heading to the US border and inflating the number of immigrants. He described them as “an invasion of our country” on Monday and announced plans to deploy at least 5,200 active-duty troops to the border. One online conspiracy theory, pushed by sites like InfoWars, claims that migrants in the caravan are getting rides paid for by George Soros. The recent caravan of Central American migrants has clearly been on the president’s radar, but how true are his claims? Democrats say it was Trump, not them, who killed a deal to fund the wall in exchange for protections for the roughly 700,000 immigrants currently protected under the wall.

In the final days before the election, President Trump and Republicans are trying again to highlight the caravan, which he called “an invasion”. Trump has accused Democrats and Central Americans of conspiring to invade the US and vowed to start mass deportations in Springfield, Ohio, after parroting racist right-wing rumors about the city’s population. Those walking to the US to seek asylum have been demonized by Trump, who sent more than 5000 soldiers to await them at the border. Food is distributed to Central American migrants traveling north in a caravan as they camp in the town of Pijijiapan, in the southeastern region.

The arrival of close to 7,000 migrants, mostly from Honduras, to the U.S.-Mexico border was by far the immigration-related event with the most media attention. President Trump has been attempting to drum up fear among voters that a migrant caravan hundreds of miles from the border is a threat.