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Why US media's coverage on Trump's caravan lies is disservice to the nation

Journalists are calling Trump's caravan claims 'evidence-free.' It's worse than that.

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A six-meter high cartoon baby blimp of US President Donald Trump is flown as a protest against his visit, in Parliament Square in London, England, Friday, July 13, 2018 Photo: AFP/PTI

Domenica Ghanem
As the GOP’s fears of a progressive wave in November grow, Donald Trump has made it his personal mission to make everyone else afraid, too. Over the past few week’s he’s been telling evermore fantastical tales of dangerous riffraff inching their way up to the US border.

In reality, there is a caravan of Honduran migrants — fleeing violence and economic strife so bad that they’d risk our own horrific family separation policies — making its way through Mexico. Traveling in the thousands has helped protect the group from the usual dangers of border-crossing, like getting lost or robbed on the