Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
Look at the picture. Where are the "families"? Where are the "children"? Those are all young men who work for the cartels. Period.
Many of the illegals connection to the drug cartels are as victims, not members or eager workers. Sure many illegals will will carry a backpack full of marijuana across the border, but that is only a one time deal to pay their smuggling fee and/or they are being forced.

To give the impression that these caravan participants are all eager and willing drug mules is disingenuous IMO.

As for the caravan members, most of them are coming in large groups to protect themselves (safety in numbers) from the cartels and those arriving at the port of entries are not hauling drugs.

I'm not defending these illegals. Many of them probably do have criminal records in their own country and some of them are gang members and thugs. However, many of them are coming here to take American jobs, not as members of a drug cartel.