Laura Ingraham Calls Caravan a ‘Mobile Mob’: ‘They Know There’s Protection in Numbers’

On Monday night, Laura Ingraham kicked off the show by tackling the migrant caravan that is making its way up towards the United States.

Ingraham began by relying on Merriam-Webster Dictionary to define the word “caravan,” which says the following:

1 a: a company of travelers on a journey through desert or hostile regions 

also : a train of pack animals 

b: a group of vehicles traveling together (as in a file)

2: a covered wagon or motor vehicle equipped as traveling living quarters

“Well, that doesn’t really work for what we’re seeing here, does it?” Ingraham said. “The word ‘caravan’ colloquially can note something kind of fun, festive, desirable. Well yet other descriptions come to mind among Americans and legal immigrants watching this all play out.”

The Fox News host cited a Mexican newspaper that says among the migrants, most are “working-age males” and that there’s a “far smaller number of women and children” and that many of them “have friends and/or family in the U.S.”

“Well one thing is clear: they know that there is protection in numbers, that if they flood the zone, they’ll be able to overwhelm border patrol officials as they did in Guatemala and in Mexico,” Ingraham said. “It’s no wonder the mobile mob feels emboldened after vowing not to allow them through Mexico, Mexico- its police force is actually now providing an escort to the migrant caravan, if you can believe that.  Now does this sound like or look like something that most Americans think is a good idea? It doesn’t matter where people come from, whether they come from Central America, Europe, any part of the world, if they come in illegally, guess what? Most Americans think it’s not fair and Donald Trump knows this. When he says he wants to stop this mobile mob, a lot of people calling it ‘invasions’ – most Americans see it is not just an economic burden, and it is one, but a flagrant flouting of the rule of law as well.”

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.

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