While watching the inauguration, my brother-in-law said, “Biden wasn’t even in office yet and the Trumpsters were already starting their conspiracy theories about Latino caravans marching towards our southern border.”
He’s generally much more up-to-date on this sort of thing than I am, so I didn’t challenge him. But I did think to myself: Why wouldn’t caravans be forming? If I lived in Central America and wanted a better life for my family, I’d be on my way. (I subscribe to the theory that economics is a key factor in human behavior, and people generally respond to economic incentives and disincentives in predictable ways. In much of academia today, this is a very unpopular idea.)
I asked Amaru to check it out, and I was right. Instead of conspiracies theories, he found more than 20 stories – from sources including NBC News, Fox News, BBC News, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and NPR – verifying that thousands of migrants from Honduras and Guatemala were already on the move, hoping to take advantage of the new administration’s plans for immigration reform.
Notes From My Journal
While watching the inauguration, my brother-in-law said, “Biden wasn’t even in office yet and the Trumpsters were already starting their conspiracy theories about Latino caravans marching towards our southern border.”
He’s generally much more up-to-date on this sort of thing than I am, so I didn’t challenge him. But I did think to myself: Why wouldn’t caravans be forming? If I lived in Central America and wanted a better life for my family, I’d be on my way. (I subscribe to the theory that economics is a key factor in human behavior, and people generally respond to economic incentives and disincentives in predictable ways. In much of academia today, this is a very unpopular idea.)
I asked Amaru to check it out, and I was right. Instead of conspiracies theories, he found more than 20 stories – from sources including NBC News, Fox News, BBC News, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and NPR – verifying that thousands of migrants from Honduras and Guatemala were already on the move, hoping to take advantage of the new administration’s plans for immigration reform.
The Migrants Are Coming! The Migrants Are Coming!
While watching the inauguration, my brother-in-law said, “Biden wasn’t even in office yet and the Trumpsters were already starting their conspiracy theories about Latino caravans marching towards our southern border.”
He’s generally much more up-to-date on this sort of thing than I am, so I didn’t challenge him. But I did think to myself: Why wouldn’t caravans be forming? If I lived in Central America and wanted a better life for my family, I’d be on my way. (I subscribe to the theory that economics is a key factor in human behavior, and people generally respond to economic incentives and disincentives in predictable ways. In much of academia today, this is a very unpopular idea.)
I asked Amaru to check it out, and I was right. Instead of conspiracies theories, he found more than 20 stories – from sources including NBC News, Fox News, BBC News, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and NPR – verifying that thousands of migrants from Honduras and Guatemala were already on the move, hoping to take advantage of the new administration’s plans for immigration reform.