Caravan Organizers Are Blaming The US For Migrants As Trump Lashes Out

"Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW," the president tweeted Sunday. "NO MORE DACA DEAL!"

President Trump responded to a Fox News report on a caravan of Central American migrants approaching the US border with a new attack on the Mexican government and immigrants inside the United States — even as caravan organizers blame US policy for their flight.

Many of the people in the group — which is led organized by a volunteer organization called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders — are traveling to the US through Mexico from Honduras to seek asylum, organizers told BuzzFeed News, which means they are seeking refugee status as a result of unsafe living conditions in their home countries.

“If this caravan bothers him, then it also bothers me that he supported people like Juan Orlando [Hernández, the president of Honduras] who oppresses the people, destroys the economy of the country, and creates a humanitarian crisis," Irineo Mujica, director of Pueblos Sin Fronteras, told BuzzFeed News. "We didn’t create that humanitarian crisis. They want to stop the humanitarian crisis how? Stopping these people? The crisis is in Honduras, and he was part of the chaos that occurred in the country.”

US support for Hernandez didn't begin with Trump: President Barack Obama's administration also backed the leader, viewing allegations of domestic corruption and abuse as secondary to his willingness to cooperate with the United States on security issues. In 2013, then–secretary of state John Kerry congratulated Hernandez on his victory, amid protests and accusations of voter fraud.

The caravan has received widespread attention through reports from BuzzFeed News' Adolfo Flores as he travels with the group as it heads north through Mexico toward the border.