Posted on 04/28/2018 1:08:36 PM PDT by BBell
PACARAIMA, Brazil — Hundreds turn up each day, many arriving penniless and gaunt as they pass a tattered flag that signals they have reached the border.
Once they cross, many cram into public parks and plazas teeming with makeshift homeless shelters, raising concerns about drugs and crime. The lucky ones sleep in tents and line up for meals provided by soldiers — pregnant women, the disabled and families with young children are often given priority. The less fortunate huddle under tarps that crumple during rainstorms.
The scenes are reminiscent of the waves of desperate migrants who have escaped the wars in Syria and Afghanistan, spurring a backlash in Europe. Yet this is happening in Brazil, where a relentless tide of people fleeing the deepening economic crisis in Venezuela has begun to test the region’s tolerance for immigrants.
This month, the governor of the northern Brazilian state of Roraima sued the federal government, demanding that it close the border with Venezuela and provide additional money for her overburdened education and health systems.
“We’re very fearful this may lead to an economic and social destabilization in our state,” said the governor, Suely Campos. “I’m looking after the needs of Venezuelans to the detriment of Brazilians.”
Continue reading the main story The tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have found refuge in Brazil in recent years are walking proof of a worsening humanitarian crisis that their government claims does not exist.
They also constitute an exodus that is straining the region’s largely generous and permissive immigration policies. Earlier this month, Trinidad deported more than 80 Venezuelan asylum seekers. In Colombian and Brazilian border communities, local residents have attacked Venezuelans in camps.
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Nah. Just assassinate Maduro and then leave. It should be a joint operation by Colombia and Brazil. They're very capable.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks BBell.
Venezuelans CHOSE SOCIALISM.
They deserve their misery.
Let ‘em rot... The people of Pacaraima should escort the ‘illegals’ to the border and shove them back into the hell hole they created.
At some point the United States should send assassination squads down there and take out the first 6 layers of power. Then it doesn't matter how many 'army' folks have guns...
(The UN needs to classify countries by freedom and decency - with first world countries getting civilized protections and 'hellholes' getting fewer. No assassinations of first world leaders... ANYONE can knock off hellhole dictators. Make that one change and the world becomes more civilized overnight. Even thuggy dictators 'get' incentives...)
I don’t know. Did they vote for Chavez?
One man, one vote, one time.
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