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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: nopardons

I didn’t read your post before I made my comment about the flag. Ive seen too many Mexicans with their flag hanging on their walls. Why don’t they have any American flags?


281 posted on 10/20/2018 7:25:03 PM PDT by muggs
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To: muggs

They are not fleeing persecution. They are economic migrants who don’t want to wait their turn to be a legal immigrant. Their own government is corrupt and their country is violent. Some want a job but others want welfare in the USA. It’s all about the money.


282 posted on 10/20/2018 7:49:08 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: muggs
That's okay...we're on the same side.

The invading scum don't want to be AMERICAN; they just want FREE STUFF and still be from the countries they've fled, in a different nation.

283 posted on 10/20/2018 8:24:33 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Is Hollywood recruiting extras to be in the next Zombie movie? Looks like it! Send them all to Hollyweird!:)


284 posted on 10/20/2018 9:47:56 PM PDT by TREGEN
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To: firebrand

I see your point about population in this thread, too, after having seen it from the wrong perspective the first time. You’re right. Overpopulation is the problem.

But if you like, look at this side of the problem, too. First I’ll concede that there are individuals who tend more towards lifelong learning and ingenuity in every nation, and individuals who avoid modifying their behaviors and circumstances, also in every nation.

At the same time, though, some populations are generally more ready than others to be a little larger. At the least, some cultures generally adapt relatively a little more quickly to more peaceful, productive interactions and better management of resources.

As you are probably aware, there are natural limiters to population sizes. There are even some limiters that we don’t fully understand, yet.

As for Malthus, some followers are more self-concerned and indulge in their own points of view. Others continue learning as a more diverse pastime and see problems from various points of view (those who study Malthusians and other psychopaths).


285 posted on 10/21/2018 12:34:45 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

There used to be an organization called Zero Population Growth. They were pro-abortion. I went to one of their meetings but they were mostly talking among themselves, people who knew one another, so I wrote them a letter. I suggested they form a sub-group called Zero Population Growth for Catholics, which would focus on all the non-abortion ways to control population growth. Of course the Catholic church is the place where people who don’t want to have their own family used to go for their “family.”

Anyway, that organization is not around anymore. They gave up. And I think I know why. If I’m right, it’s because sex and family are so bound into our culture that they can’t be lessened in importance and put in their proper place. They are like a Siamese twin. Before Ben Carson. You can’t separate them without killing one or both. You can’t even find them, or see them, as cultural features distinct from the whole. They are like invisible Siamese twins. They ARE our culture, ever since the Garden, and it’s why we are here, fighting for survival, and it’s why we can’t change.

But we can. But that’s another thread. Maybe better for the Religion Forum.


286 posted on 10/21/2018 3:33:56 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: HotKat; Impy; metmom; grania
"Recycle ♻️ reuse! Use the flags for diapers." ROFL!
287 posted on 10/21/2018 3:43:35 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Kind of strange ...

Honduran activists call al Jazeera on the phone

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3698437/posts

“Activists and others have longed called for a cut in US military aid to Central American country over rights abuses... “With regard to the threats of the United States government, I don’t even think people listen to that,” human rights activist Yessica Trinidad told Al Jazeera over the phone... [snip]

Remember the 100 ISIS terrorists caught near the Caravan?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3697918/posts

What does Yessica Trinidad know about that? Does she know who funded the Caravan?


288 posted on 10/21/2018 3:44:21 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

If our government wanted to stop it, they’d figure out who organized and financed this outrage. It’s an invasion, and what are we as a nation if we don’t stop those who are responsible.


289 posted on 10/21/2018 4:01:38 AM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

There once was a time when the CIA could have been counted on to go down there and find out how and by whom this is being organized. Not any more, it would appear.


290 posted on 10/21/2018 4:35:17 AM PDT by beef
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Don't look to hungry, look to WELL FED.

291 posted on 10/21/2018 5:03:43 AM PDT by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT1)
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To: TREGEN

ROFL!


292 posted on 10/21/2018 5:10:41 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (News and poltiicians who ignore James O'Keefe are fake and evil.)
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To: Snickering Hound

These are the poor and downtrodden? They are mostly men dressed in fashionable and clean clothing.. The have smartphones with high tech gadget attachments so they can film their trek. They are Not refugees! They are political pawns used by the Leftist Elites. Useful Idiots are complicant in the INVASION.


293 posted on 10/21/2018 5:21:06 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: nopardons
This time it's our own people inviting the invaders in. They are promising them the world in exchange for their illegal votes.
I was listening to Breitbart Sunday radio.. A caller was describing how, at a Whole Foods, he overheard an older man educating an obviously illegal young woman on how to vote illegally. Has there ever been such open sedition!?

God help us.. The fate of our Republic could change entirely sooner than we feared.

294 posted on 10/21/2018 5:38:31 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Snickering Hound

The greatest prize awaits, a country filled with white people who will be forced to work for them, giving them food, shelter and doctors for the rest of their lives.


295 posted on 10/21/2018 6:40:57 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Turn Americans loose at the border. We can handle this.

THIS.

It’s the only way. Politicians at every level in every party have shown us they aren’t going to make it happen. The only way is for Americans to get the job done themselves, if we want to save this country.


296 posted on 10/21/2018 7:51:07 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Freee-dame

Some want a job but others want welfare in the USA. It’s all about the money.

99% of them get a LOW PAYING job, AND sign up for welfare. That way, they live a decent lower middle class life while Americans go hungry, lose their jobs, become homeless, etc.or become tax poor subsidizing all this BS.

I’m so damn sick of it.


297 posted on 10/21/2018 7:55:59 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Why aren’t those people marching to their own governments’ capitols (capitals?)?


298 posted on 10/21/2018 9:38:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
This turd world region has been told by everyone that the land of FREEBIES is America - head there they courts will demand they take you in, feed you, ed you and your dozens of kiddies, provide you with housing and then to top it off WILL INVITE IN EVERY LIVING RELATIVE YOU HAVE!!!!
299 posted on 10/21/2018 2:03:18 PM PDT by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: Candor7

Ann Coulter is pushing 60. I don’t see her having children.


300 posted on 10/21/2018 4:11:55 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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