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BUT, would any of them seriously consider just dropping everything to join a caravan across Mexico? Would they stuff themselves in shipping containers or pay gangsters to get smuggled to LA?

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Good point.

To answer your question, NO: people with means will not go the caravan route. They over-stay their visa. It's that simple. Caravan route is to risky and is more for the lower class. I didn't mention this but I have a niece that is here illegally as of next month. With her husband and two kids. She is a lawyer, he is an accountant.

Remember, there are no consequences.

Well this couple in red in the group features a 'Graco Modes Jogger Stroller'

....RETAIL VALUE: $389.00

so I wouldn't say these folks are poor by any stretch...

I doubt that you shall, but you should turn them in! To not do so, makes YOU as much a criminal as they are.

And those lower class ones, in the "caravan", will bleed this country dry, should they manage to get in and add less than NOTHING WORTH A DAMN to this nation. They and you niece and her family are parasites, who need to be gotten rid of.

And no...I do NOT want to hear that old lefty song about how we are all immigrants/descended from immigrants! My great great grandparents came here for FREEDOM, learned English ASAP, as did their children, were well educated and NEVER expected to be "taken care of", once they were here! They and their descendants also all LOVED/LOVE this nation and added to it in many different GOOD ways.

You stated......”I have a niece that is here ‘illegally’ as of next month. With her husband and two kids. She is a lawyer, he is an accountant”.....

You make it sound like she being a lawyer and he an accountant should somehow make it ok they are here....even though she's broken the law by still being here ( next month) and you and your family aiding and abetting that...Because as you've said "there are no consequences."

And you're alright with this?

(knowingly Overstaying visas is still criminal.....can be barred from returning to the U.S. for ten years or three years depending on the period of overstay.)

I suspect since she's an Attorney she's going to apply for extensions etc. unless she's already exhausted those.

No matter how you frame this you know you are still taking advantage of the privileges of being here and really no different than those now coming here....it is still abusing our systems.

"She is a lawyer, he is an accountant"

My family immigrated from Cuba after the failure of the Bay of Pigs. My half brother was part of the invasion (paratroopers) and my family housed his platoon until they were captured and returned to the US.

My father was a lawyer in Cuba; they were not needed under Castro and communism. When we came to America he took a job at 7-11 since law does not "transfer" from one country to another. I was seven, the oldest of three boys, and he was 50.

We did not come here as economic refugees but as ideologic refugees. Of the initial group of Cuban immigrants fewer than 2% took public assistance. Many did rely on Churches and friends and family. I believe the Vietnamese immigrants also came without seeking welfare but freedom.

My heart feels for these people stuck in socialist controlled and dominated countries. We tried to fight for Cuba but recognized that if we did not leave after the invasion failed we would never get out. I give thanks to God and the US that my parents were able to come legally.

I wish there was something like a, "Marshall Plan" to help our southern hemisphere. China and Russia are there.