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Today, Explained

One week to midterms, 5000 troops to border

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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THE CARAVAN IS COMING! DISEASE! MUSLIMS! DANGER! LOCK THE BORDER! Or maybe just listen to this episode in which Vox’s Dara Lind separates truth from fiction about the migrant caravan heading to the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you seen Viper Club yet?

0:02.4

If not, you're off the hook because it's only showing in New York and Los Angeles, but

0:06.0

that changes on Friday when the movie is showing nationwide.

0:10.0

You'll know you're in the right movie because it stars Susan Sarandon as a mother struggling

0:14.0

to free her captured journalist son, and occasionally Edie Falco will show up.

0:19.6

Viper Club, nationwide Friday.

0:21.9

It's a movie.

0:30.2

Darylind Immigration reporter here at Vox, the Trump administration has announced that

0:34.0

it's sending 5,000 troops to the US Mexico border, anticipating the arrival of a caravan of

0:40.0

central American immigrants.

0:42.3

Let's start at the start.

0:43.5

What is this caravan's origin story?

0:47.8

So, on October 12, which was a couple of Fridays ago, about 150 or so people started

0:58.8

off from the town of San Pedro Sula in Honduras, which is a city that you may have heard

1:06.6

of at some point because for a while it had the unofficial title of the murder capital

1:10.8

of the world.

1:11.8

And so it's not super stable place for people to be.

1:14.9

So a group of people set out from San Pedro Sula with the intent of going through Guatemala

1:21.6

through Mexico and seeking asylum in the United States.

1:27.6

How big was this group of people?

1:29.2

So it's set out from San Pedro Sula at about 150 people.

1:33.0

By the time it got to the Honduras, Guatemala border a couple of days later, we were talking

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