Another migrant caravan is marching toward the U.S. border, and the same permanent infrastructure of nonprofits and government grants that has fueled the invasion for years is still being underwritten by American taxpayers.
The caravan, dubbed "Fe y Esperanza" — Faith and Hope — departed San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on September 20 with 200 to 400 people and has since swelled to more than 600 as it pushes north through Mexico, according to EFE reporting cited by Newsweek. The group includes nationals from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Haiti. Migrants told EFE they left because of economic hardship. One woman traveling with two children said there was no work. Another conceded the journey would be difficult but said he would try anyway.
Newsweek framed the caravan as an artifact of the Trump era, noting the administration's crackdown has driven border apprehensions down 94 percent from the Biden monthly average, to just 8,870 in August 2026. DHS says Border Patrol has released zero migrants into the country for 16 consecutive months. What Newsweek buried: the question of who organized this caravan and who funds the pipeline that keeps producing them.
The Gateway Pundit followed the money. Proyecto Faro, the immigrant-support nonprofit that has publicly tracked and assisted caravan migrants, is bankrolled by a roster of foundations. The Harry Donenfeld Foundation — named for the Jewish immigrant who co-founded DC Comics — is a primary funder. So is the Gitlin Family Foundation, also Jewish-led. The Freedom Together Foundation, founded by Barbara Picower from the estate of her late husband Jeffry Picower — both Jewish — is another major donor. That foundation was previously called the JPB Foundation and rebranded in 2024; its earlier incarnation funded Jewish causes.
Then there is ADRA, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ADRA's biggest donor isn't a church collection plate — it's the U.S. government, primarily through USAID. Gateway Pundit reports USAID has funneled roughly $385 million across more than a hundred awards to ADRA. In August 2026, the State Department named ADRA a partner in its new Faith and Community Initiative. By the end of 2025, ADRA had received at least $36 million through that arrangement.
So the loop works like this: Washington sends your tax dollars to USAID and the State Department, which cut checks to groups like ADRA, which operate in the very countries migrants are fleeing — and in the transit corridors they travel through. Meanwhile, private foundations with their own ideological commitments fund the domestic advocacy infrastructure. The result is a fully funded migration industrial complex that operates regardless of which party holds the White House.
Mexican authorities have historically intercepted and dispersed caravans before they reach the U.S. border. It remains unclear whether this one will arrive intact. But the caravan itself is a symptom. The disease is the money — public and private — that makes the journey possible and profitable for everyone except the American communities left to absorb the consequences.
