# Homeless immigrant with no money to her name spends $50 on pizzas, what? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-immigrant-with-no-money-to-her-name-spends-50-on-pizzas-what/813856 "2018-05-09T11:08:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-immigrant-with-no-money-to-her-name-spends-50-on-pizzas-what/813856/1 "2018-05-09T11:08:02Z")
[I read this article](https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/americas/mom-migrant-caravan-asylum/index.html) and was immediately thrown for a loop when I came to this passage. I can’t be the only one confused by this. > [@](#): > > On the last Sunday of April, Hernandez was standing in a windy walkway outside the US border crossing facility, when a passerby recognized her from CNN and gave her a bill that she tucked away in her pocket. > > After he left, she unraveled the note and was shocked that it was $50. > > “Pizza!” yelled her older son, Omar. > > Hernandez, a fellow mother from the caravan, Tesla Rich, and Omar hailed a cab to a Domino’s franchise on Avenida Revolución. They ordered two large pepperonis – $5 each – plus a ham and cheese pizza – a favorite of her other son, Jonathan – and some fries and wings. Note, that has to be $50 US since the numbers wouldn’t match peso currency conversation rates at all (and fits with the $5 pizza thing). So basically a woman and a friend immediately spent all the money they had just been given for 3 pizzas, french fries and buffalo wings (along with a cab ride to and from) for about 5 people. And then later they’re seen to be begging for blankets and supplies. Why would they get wings and french fries with their pizzas first of all? Shouldn’t those 3 pizzas be enough? The article doesn’t mention them sharing the pizzas with others besides the initial 5 people (and if they had shared the food among others the article would have most likely mentioned it to show how good of a person she is) I can understand getting pizzas since they’re relatively cheap for already prepared food but it seems like 2 large pizzas by themselves should have filled everyone up. Plus those wings had to be about $7 American (since Dominos wings aren’t cheap) for so much less food so why not just get another pizza if you really need that much food? And why french fries on top?! How many calories do these 5 people possibly need? Reading the article they apparently weren’t starving, they hadn’t eaten much but they were still getting 2 meals a day each on their journey so it’s not like they needed to bulk up fast. It just seems like the worlds dumbest move when you know you’re going to face more hardship in the future and you don’t even save any for later. I actually went and shared this article with a relative who was a Mexican undocumented immigrant who went through a similar journey with children and even he was completely flabbergasted at the woman’s sheer waste of money. When he came over he saved every single peso and penny he found because he knew he would desperately need them later on. This woman is buying $40 in pizzas and then giving her kids money for crane games as well. This may sound like a rant but I’m curious if anyone else had a similar reaction upon reading this. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-immigrant-with-no-money-to-her-name-spends-50-on-pizzas-what/813856)._