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We Are Hungry!' Migrants Wail at Mexico-Guatemala Border
New York Times ^ | 10/20/2018 | AP via NYT

Posted on 10/19/2018 9:50:17 PM PDT by Rusty0604

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala — A standoff between thousands of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States and Mexican police stretched through the night with some migrants hanging from the closed border gate wailing "there are children here" while others slept on the crowded bridge linking Guatemala to Mexico.

But they were met Friday by a wall of police with riot shields on the Mexican side of the bridge. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated, joining the sea of humanity on the bridge.

Police and immigration agents began letting small groups of 10, 20 or 30 people through the gates if they wanted to apply for refugee status. Once they file a claim, they can go to a shelter to spend the night.

As night fell on the bridge, the migrants' frustration turned to despair as women clutching small children took up the rows in front of the gate pleading with the Mexican federal police. Some migrants yelled "We are hungry!" Others wailed that they had children while others set up tarps to prepare for the night sleeping on the increasingly dirty and befouled bridge.

A Mexican marine official with a loudspeaker approached the gate and told migrants they would be taken in trucks to "a humanitarian attention center" in Tapachula, a border city in the Mexican state of Chiapas. But the official did not say when this would happen.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; braking; caravan; gohome; guatemala; honduras; hondurascaravan; illegals; illegalsinvasion; immigration; returnhome; trump; wompwomp
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To: Rusty0604

Who fed you yesterday ? Go home.


2 posted on 10/19/2018 9:53:10 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Rusty0604
LOL! Hungry? Even the poorest of the poor south of the US border are chubby little roly poly dumplings. Whatever they lack, it's not food (Venezuela excepted).
 
3 posted on 10/19/2018 9:54:07 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What kind of mother takes her baby on a thousands of miles trip with no food and no diapers? Who did she think was going to provide her with these necessities?
Second question is rhetorical.


4 posted on 10/19/2018 9:59:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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and an air bridge for special cases of women, children, the elderly and the sick,"

BS They made it that far, they are healthy enough to return on their own. This is drama for the media and bleeding hearts in the US.

5 posted on 10/19/2018 10:00:01 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: pfflier

It’s all drama.


6 posted on 10/19/2018 10:00:59 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

I’m sure there are rats they could catch.


7 posted on 10/19/2018 10:01:43 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic is one stop shopping...It's the super Walmart for news.)
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To: Rusty0604

Send them home “Naked and Afraid”.


8 posted on 10/19/2018 10:04:03 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic is one stop shopping...It's the super Walmart for news.)
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To: Rusty0604

Who’s funding these little dog and pony shows ? This isn’t some spontaneous action.


9 posted on 10/19/2018 10:04:23 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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p14

Apparently some of them get extra sugar with their sopapilla.

10 posted on 10/19/2018 10:05:46 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: pfflier

This is making very little sense. If they are already supposedly completely out of resources how did they make that long of a trip to begin with, let alone how were they going to make the rest of it?

These people are being used - of course common sense tells you a caravan of this many people doesn’t just spontaneously appear and start moving on its own.

And those that are legitimately fleeing from the gangs and the liberals and the media saying it is only humane to give them refuge - yet the same liberals and media oppose measures that would prevent the same gangs from taking root here - and they are here. How is it humane to just bring people into the same situation they left? None of this “concern” is genuine.


11 posted on 10/19/2018 10:06:03 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Rusty0604

If violence can drive them out of Honduras and send them marching all the way to the U.S., I don’t see why a little violence at the Mexico/U.S. border wouldn’t send them somewhere else. Turn Americans loose at the border. We can handle this.


12 posted on 10/19/2018 10:08:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Of course it wasn’t...and most of them were probably lied to by whatsoever operation (probably Soros connected) put this together to get all these people gathered up. This is messed up - most of these people are being used, yet the media will portray it was “Trump’s fault”, “Republicans’ fault”, etc.


13 posted on 10/19/2018 10:09:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Here’s one of the culprits, I haven’t researched who funds them.

http://www.pueblosinfronteras.org/commitees.html


14 posted on 10/19/2018 10:09:33 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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“We are hungry!”

Go tell it to Soros.


15 posted on 10/19/2018 10:10:40 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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Democrats, Soros, probably.


16 posted on 10/19/2018 10:11:15 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Republican Wildcat

Oh, yeah, no doubt.


17 posted on 10/19/2018 10:11:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Rusty0604

Proceed with Plan Alpha. All invaders must be eliminated.


18 posted on 10/19/2018 10:14:03 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Republican Wildcat

Yes, this is organized and political. But the problem is, they are invading on a daily basis. As many as there are in this caravan, cross over every 4 days. In just one sector in south Texas, an average of 640 cross every day. They know they will get a court date in a few years, are set free and then disappear.


19 posted on 10/19/2018 10:14:23 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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Mexican Police and immigration agents began letting small groups of 10, 20 or 30 people through the gates if they wanted to apply for refugee status. Once they file a claim, they can go to a shelter to spend the night.

How about a criminal check? Screening for TB? Check for current Violent Gang members. No?

Oh, Mexico wants to 'appear' to handle it, so Mexico won't be blamed.

20 posted on 10/19/2018 10:14:46 PM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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