Fox News on the radio just reported that the Caravan is heading to Tijuana on the California border.
Woah.
I had no idea.
I was thinking in terms of coming up through Brownsville, TX. That’s about 1600 miles, from the Honduran capital to the closest point of the US that doesn’t require an ocean voyage.
Going to Tijuana practically doubles the length of the journey, at almost 3000 miles from the Honduran capital to San Diego.
That’s the equivalent of deciding to flee Madrid, Spain— and picking out St. Petersburg, Russia— and bypassing France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and ignoring Estonia-- and that’s still 400 miles shorter.
Or it’s like deciding to flee Cairo, Egypt, and heading through Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, and ending up in Karachi, Pakistan.
That’s a whole lot of shoe leather…
If this is just about fleeing a bad situation, wouldn’t it be easier to just pop 400 miles south and end up in Costa Rica? Or you could travel under 700 miles and end up in Panama?