Director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras accused of orchestrating the migrant caravan is a naturalized US citizen who crossed the border illegally as a boy

[Sugar Cookie]

The leader of a controversial activist group accused of orchestrating the migrant caravan is a naturalized US citizen who crossed the border illegally as a boy by trudging through a sewer, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

Irineo Mujica was just 13 years old when he bussed across Mexico alone and paid $150 to a people smuggler who led him through an unguarded tunnel close to Lukesville, Arizona.

Mujica went on to graduate high school in Phoenix, attend college and achieve US citizenship through a 1986 amnesty for undocumented rural workers.

Three decades later, he is the director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the left-leaning migrant advocacy group accused of encouraging impoverished Central Americans to march on the US border in their thousands in the hope of obtaining a similar life.

Mujica's 'collective' of unpaid volunteers have shepherded smaller caravans though Mexico for the past decade to highlight the plight of migrants fleeing corruption and gang violence in countries including Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

But he insists that Pueblo Sin Fronteras played no part in organizing the sprawling 7,000-strong convoy which set off two months ago from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula and remains camped out in squalid conditions in Tijuana, a stone’s throw from the San Ysidro crossing into San Diego.

But in a defiant interview with DailyMail.com, Mujica scoffed: 'If you want to know who is the guilty one then look no further than Trump himself.

'We organized similar caravans for years with a few hundred people. It's only when he started tweeting about it and advertising it to the world that it grew so large.'

The longtime activist, 48, added: 'No organization has the power to make 7,000 people suddenly leave their homes. We were never in Honduras. It's too dangerous to work there.

'We had no involvement with the caravan until it reached Mexico. All we have done is provide support and education so the migrants can organize themselves and avoid violence and problems.

'We don't get paid, we're not standing for office so people can say what they like about us. But it's all propaganda.'

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[Brillig]

Sounds like a became an educated, productive member of society.

 

[Sejanus]

Not a creep, Criminal, rapist, Thief, but rather a productive member of society.
Golly gee imagine that

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Sounds like a became an educated, productive member of society.

A "productive member" who encouraged poor desparate uneducated
people to travel hundreds of miles to prove some point. He's safe and comfy. They suffered for his cause. How many of them are stranded in foreign regions where no one wants them?. How many dropped out many leagues away from the precious USA border where TrumpHitler rules?
Some loonies called Trump "Hitler" yet still demand entrance. The illegal migrants demanding entrance to the USA probably have the faintest concept of WW2. Their local history is far more important than world events.
They've been used.

 

[lithiumgirl]

Well he should have a little more respect for American then ...

 

[notchback]

Strip him of citizenship and throw his ass back across the border.