Migrant caravans are not about to crash over the U.S. border, says CNN's John Sutter

A 1,000 -strong migrant caravan of migrants marched by foot along Mexico Highway 200 for hundreds of yards .

The Mexican government seems to have provided military and police escorts so that their participants can safely reach their true destinations.

The underlying story that spawned these caravans begins in December 2023 , conveniently right at Christmastime, when most reporters and editors would be sipping eggnog around their homefires.

CNN 's John Sutter visited Tapachula , Mexico , where 150,000 immigrants were in town at any given time, a 40 percent increase in the city’s normal population of 350,000 .

Sutter: Mexico 's chosen relief strategy was to issue short-distance city transfer travel permits that would allow thousands to leave the jobless, denuded, crime-riddled hellscape of Tapacula for less beaten southern cities, still in Chiapas or neighboring states.