Socialist shadow groups in Nicaragua, fronted by President Ortega, and possibly even Bolanos, started recruiting people to create a caravan to the US border to demand asylum in the U.S. With dreams of freedom in America, good jobs, and the promise of support all along the way to through Mexico to the U.S. border, they preyed on poor, desperate, people who are sick of war, drugs, crime and corruption. It was an easy sell, and it was all lies. The rosy picture of a great life in the U.S., in particular, was a ruse. It’s not at all that great being an alien in the real USA, legal or illegal.