'The White House Is Red. Bright Red.' Homan Slams the Door on Caravan Betting on Democrats
By Oreo Express | November 11, 2026
The midterm results are barely a week old, and the caravans are already rolling.
A caravan calling itself "Dios con Nosotros" ("God With Us") set out Tuesday from Tapachula, in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemala border, with the goal of reaching the United States. A Chiapas state government source told Reuters the group numbers about 1,500 people, including many families. Spain's EFE news agency put it closer to 2,000. Most are from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, and the group first left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Saturday.
And they're not shy about why now. Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate last week, and the people in this caravan say they think that changes everything.
Cesar Sandoval, a 47-year-old Nicaraguan who Reuters reports was deported from the United States a few months ago, told the wire service:
"There might be a light at the end of the tunnel, a way for us to get in. ... We believe the Democrats will help us... with God's help."
To AFP, he went further: "We hope they remember that the ones who gave them the vote so they could make it to the Senate and Congress were the sons of Hispanics, the sons of Latinos."
Read that again. A man who was already deported is walking back toward our border because he believes Democrats owe him one. That isn't a talking point. That's the caravan in its own words.
Homan: "Come All You Want"
White House Border Czar Tom Homan wasn't having any of it. On Fox News Wednesday, under a chyron reading "MIGRANT CARAVANS HEAD TOWARD BORDER AFTER DEM WINS," he said:
"Congress may be more blue, Texas may be more blue, but the White House is red. Bright red. ... These caravans can come to the border all they want. They're not going to be released into the United States. They're going to be turned around, or prosecuted then turned around."
"But we're not giving one inch on this border," Homan said. His message to the caravan: "come all you want, you're gonna be highly disappointed." And then: "The Democrats can't change that."
He also told Mexico to do its part: "They need to put troops on their southern border, northern border. It's against the law in Mexico to transit that country if you're from another country without a transit visa."
And he gave it a name anyone who watched the border in 2021 will recognize: "we call it the Biden effect." Homan said he knew that if Democrats took control of Congress, this would happen. "Look, elections don't change laws. The same laws we've been enforcing the last two years, we're gonna enforce for the next two years, and they can't stop that."
The Biden Effect, Round Two
I covered the border during the Biden years. I saw what happens when the people in charge signal that the door is open. The smugglers market it, the families pay for it, the cartels cash in, and American towns end up absorbing millions of illegal aliens. It always starts the same way: with a caravan and a rumor that the rules are about to change.
And make no mistake, Democrats are sending that signal again. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is about to run the new Democrat majority, told PBS NewsHour this week:
"Anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether they're DACA recipients, who've been treated unfairly and unjustly by the administration, we need to provide remedial assistance to them and undo the damage that's been done to the country, to law-abiding immigrant families and to the American people over this last 20 months or so."
Jeffries also said he supports bringing back DACA recipients who were deported, and wants to move the Dream and Promise Act this Congress as a foundation for more. Remedial assistance. Undo the damage. You don't need a translator in Tapachula to hear that message loud and clear.
Mexico, for its part, has moved against at least one group. AFP reports Mexico's National Guard, immigration agents and Chiapas state police blocked a smaller caravan of about 100 people on Tuesday after it crossed the Suchiate River from Guatemala, and about 40 were reportedly detained. Mexico's immigration institute did not confirm the arrests. AFP says this is the third caravan to head for the United States since September.
What's Confirmed So Far
Confirmed: the caravan left Tapachula Tuesday, with size estimates ranging from about 1,500 (a Chiapas official, via Reuters) to about 2,000 (EFE). Its first goal is Mexico City, more than 1,000 km (621 miles) away, a trip Reuters says will likely take at least several weeks. Homan's remarks are on video from Fox News. Still unknown: how many will actually make it north, and whether Mexico breaks this group up before it leaves Chiapas, as AFP reports happened to the two earlier caravans this fall.
Democrats won Congress. They did not win the border. As long as President Trump is in the Oval Office and Tom Homan is on the job, the answer to this caravan is the same: turn around. But the left just showed every smuggler in Central America what it would do with the keys. Remember that in 2028.
Sources
Reuters via The Star, "Migrants trek north through Mexico, buoyed by US election result" (Nov. 11, 2026): https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2026/11/12/migrants-trek-north-through-mexico-buoyed-by-us-election-result
AFP, "Mexico works to block passage of US-bound migrant caravan": https://www.afp.com/en/mexico-works-block-passage-us-bound-migrant-caravan
Infobae (EFE), caravan of 2,000 leaves southern Mexico (Nov. 10, 2026): https://www.infobae.com/honduras/2026/11/11/caravana-de-2-mil-migrantes-sale-del-sur-de-mexico-rumbo-a-estados-unidos/
Fox News on X, Homan on America Reports (Nov. 11, 2026): https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2120610297589252155
White House Rapid Response 47 clip of Homan: https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2120607090301620261
PBS NewsHour, "'They want us to fight': Jeffries outlines priorities": https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/they-want-us-to-fight-jeffries-outlines-priorities-as-democrats-prepare-to-take-power
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