1/With people freaking out about the Honduran migrant caravan now forcing its way through Mexico, I figured it might be time for a thread about Central American immigration.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2018-10-21/migrant-caravan-continues-toward-u-s-even-as-trump-threatens-military-intervention …
Be that as it may, it seems clear that the Romans were well aware of the Hunnic-Goth conflict.
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But they still did not care to have Goths enter Rome as organized groups and establish themselves, regardless of reason. That, I thought, was the readon for the conflict that led to Alaric sacking Rome...
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I mean, at this point we get back to the real issue, which is that Classical-period barbarian migrations are not even a slightly good analogy for modern immigration.
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True that. I got sidetracked.
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This may have been a tangent, but love me a good history debate
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