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‘Pueblos sin Fronteras’ caravan group isn’t the same as the US-based People Without Borders

By Timothy P. Carney
Published April 5, 2018 2:49pm ET
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‘Pueblos sin Fronteras’ caravan group isn’t the same as the US-based People Without Borders
Central American migrants participating in the annual Migrant Stations of the Cross caravan or "Via crucis," organized by the "Pueblo Sin Fronteras" activist group, mill around a sports center during the group's few-days stop in Matias Romero, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Monday, April 2, 2018. A Mexican government official said the caravans are tolerated because migrants have a right under Mexican law to request asylum in Mexico or to request a humanitarian visa allowing travel to the U.S. border to seek asylum in the United States. | (Felix Marquez/AP)

The caravan of migrants BuzzFeed originally reported on that is marching towards the U.S. border was organized by a group called Pueblos sin Fronteras. This translates as “People Without Borders,” which we explored in our editorial earlier this week.

What we didn’t think through was that our editorial would create confusion with a U.S.-based nonprofit called “People without Borders,” which has nothing to do with the caravan. This Christian-based nonprofit aims at helping assimilate recent immigrants, not at bringing in hundreds of asylum-seekers.

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