Ok, this is a random thought that is more of a mini-rant.
So we have this caravan of 'asylum-seekers' from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador stuck at the US-Mexico border. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/migrant-caravan-asylum.html
They are seeking asylum claiming they are fleeing gang-violence in their own country. I completely sympathize with them.
They have traveled the entire length of the country of Mexico from bottom to top.
Why has nobody mentioned the obvious fact that about the time they were halfway up Mexico that they have successfully fled the violence in their home country.
If they were fleeing their own country and were in the middle of a different country, why not seek asylum there?
They are at the US border wanting to flee Mexico!
Absolutely no different than the other millions from there that want to cross our border illegally.
Why are we treating them differently?