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Why is ‘caravan’ group seeking ‘asylum’ overwhelmingly men?

Apparently it’s mostly men who are fleeing Central America for the United States.

Do women and babies have more courage to stay behind, or is this just a setup?

Photos and videos of the so-called “caravan” being shepherded by the US group “People Without Borders” from Central American countries, through Mexico and to the United States shows participants are overwhelmingly men.

A woman in the group estimates there are about 1,300 preparing to enter the United States, legally or not.

Fox News reports most say they are fleeing “violence and poverty.”

And while that doesn’t qualify as “persecution,” Fox says 88% of those who seek asylum get an immigration court hearing.

The caravan has shades of the invasion of Europe when most “refugees” were male.

Pew Global reports:

The percentage of unaccompanied minors among all asylum seekers to Europe rose in 2015 , reaching roughly 7% of all asylum applicants.

Read more here.



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