US House Progressive leader Pramila Jayapa is joining a so-called caravan of migrants to cross the border with Mexico into the United States.
The Washington Democrat (pictured below) is scheduled to enter from the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Saturday afternoon as a gesture of opposition to crackdown on immigration by US President Donald Trump.
Jayapa, who flew to the border Friday, was gathering information about how US and Mexican authorities were treating the asylum seekers.
“The president is lying about this caravan, he’s fear mongering,” Jayapal said in a Friday interview before her trip. “He’s trying to use people who are seeking asylum and literally running from death just for his own political benefit and that’s a disgrace.”
The migrants were sprayed with tear gas while trying to cross the US-Mexico border earlier this week prompting Jayapal, the newly elected House Progressive Caucus co-chair, to make the…