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Migrants camp on bridge between Guatemala and Mexico as U.S. pressure mounts
Reuters ^ | 20 Oct 18 | Delphine Schrank

Posted on 10/20/2018 12:46:36 AM PDT by SkyPilot

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - Hundreds of Central American migrants bedded down overnight on a bridge separating Guatemala and Mexico, many squeezed against a metal border gate, as efforts to halt a trek north by a caravan of thousands of people gathered pace under U.S. pressure.

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned the Central American caravan must be stopped before it reaches the United States, and Honduras and Guatemala said late on Friday they were mobilizing to return Honduran migrants to their homeland.

Earlier in the day, hundreds of migrants at the head of the caravan had poured through Guatemalan border posts and onto the bridge, but were repelled by dozens of shield-bearing Mexican police. Several complained they had been teargassed.

Drained from days of walking and frustrated, many prepared to spend the night in the open. Some stretched towels and garbage bags along the bridge walls, others lay down on backpacks, while a man applied lotion to his tired feet.

Mexico’s government, which says it will process migrants’ claims for asylum individually, vowed to tackle the caravan as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met top officials in Mexico City. Pompeo urged Mexico to ensure the procession did not reach the United States.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; caravan; criminals; election; illegals; invaders; invasion; mexico; trump; trumpmexico
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1 posted on 10/20/2018 12:46:36 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Send in the Navy SEALs , blow the bridges


2 posted on 10/20/2018 12:47:30 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Send these vermin home to their own countries. They care little for their own.

3 posted on 10/20/2018 12:49:19 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Would be great to do...BUT..in 2008 DiFi sponsored a law passed by Congress that non-Mexican Central Americans cannot be sent home and must be given asylum in the US if they cross our border. So unless they’re stopped in Mexico they will be ours to take care of.

We have an agreement with Mexico that Mexican citizen are immediately returned to Mexico. Check the numbers and you’ll see that most of the invaders this past decade are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala

We are screwed


4 posted on 10/20/2018 1:01:56 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: SkyPilot

God loves them they are not vermin,


5 posted on 10/20/2018 1:05:45 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: SkyPilot

Every time there’s a (migrant) caravan there are police sent to the southern border ... but we’ve never seen anything as dramatic as we’re seeing today,” said Eunice Rendon, coordinator of migrant advocacy group Agenda Migrante.

“This has everything to do with Trump,” she added.


6 posted on 10/20/2018 1:09:27 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: SkyPilot

It’s wonderfully ironic that Mexico is caught in the middle this time. Maybe the need to BUILD THAT WALL!


7 posted on 10/20/2018 1:10:15 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: SkyPilot; LeoWindhorse

A bridge... we probably paid for.


8 posted on 10/20/2018 1:19:08 AM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime!" - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Raycpa

No, they’re useless eaters that America doesn’t need. They f***ed up their country of origin and are coming here like locusts to do the same.


9 posted on 10/20/2018 1:33:46 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SkyPilot
Send these vermin home to their own countries. They care little for their own.

The photographer cares enough to find the area with the most children. #FakeNews continues to try to craft a narrative, even as most Americans see that President Trump is succeeding (for now) in keeping them away using just rhetoric. We all know if these paid criminals get to our border, some black-robed tyrant will issue a judicial ruling in favor of the illegal invasion, even though that ruling will have no basis in law.

10 posted on 10/20/2018 1:36:27 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Raycpa
"...but we’ve never seen anything as dramatic as we’re seeing today,” said Eunice Rendon, coordinator of migrant advocacy group Agenda Migrante."

Yes, dramatic. Drama is an accurate word for what is being funded, planned and executed. It's part of an effort by spoiled oligarchs to convince us that we cannot stop the borders from being opened completely and cannot prevent our enslavement.

Nancy Pelosi Details Democrats’ Plan for Open Borders: ‘I Don’t See Any of Us Voting for Wall Funding’
https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2018/10/17/nancy-pelosi-details-democrats-plan-for-open-borders-i-dont-see-any-of-us-voting-for-wall-funding/

It would eventually result in more than a billion people from perpetually corrupt cultures pouring into the U.S.A. and physically destroying it.


11 posted on 10/20/2018 1:37:44 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: BubbaJunebug

BS


12 posted on 10/20/2018 1:38:44 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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...... most of the invaders this past decade are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala........

Cant think of a reason why. Can you?

At the White House, then-President Obama met with (L-R) El Salvador's Pres Salvador Sanchez Ceren,
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

13 posted on 10/20/2018 1:43:20 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: SkyPilot

One of these poor “refugees” had the foresight to bring lotion to use on his tired feet.

How resourceful. They should use their talents to make their country better. Perhaps fashion it after the way that terrible President Trump made the USA.

The President should take the “credit” for inspiring them.


14 posted on 10/20/2018 1:43:31 AM PDT by Maris Crane (!)
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To: Raycpa

.God loves them they are not vermin

That may be true, but too much of a good thing can do you in, especially if consumed too quickly and on top of it many of these migrants have no intention of being integrated and assimilated and once here want to continue along the same lines they just ran away from.

I am all for helping people where ever they may be, but on location. Apparently they must like the American idea and ideals otherwise they would not be clamoring to come here. So let’s teach them what made America great and it certainly wasn’t socialism. If they and their governments want to learn and absorb it, fine and continue to help them, but again on location. On the other hand if not,then just let them stew in their own creation, just like Venezuela or any other corrupt socialistic country of their making.

But for heaven sake get rid of that crazy idea that we have to take and absorb everyone just because their countries have turned into crap by people very similar in nature as what we have here. Too many Hillary’s, Pelosi’s and Feinstein’s are on the lose worldwide and when everything eventually turns to you know what, then they come knocking on our door, begging to let them in and before you know it we have the same crap they ran away from, but this time in our own home.


15 posted on 10/20/2018 1:49:50 AM PDT by saintgermaine (saintgermaine the time traveller)
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To: SkyPilot

Where is Godzilla when you REALLY need him?


16 posted on 10/20/2018 2:16:12 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: BubbaJunebug

Shoot them before they can touch the border.
Feinstein should be hanged - slowly.
Crooked evil witch.


17 posted on 10/20/2018 2:17:45 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: saintgermaine

The bigger picture is soros and his globalist friends including many of our enemy countries are supporting and funding this as well as the massive amounts of killer drugs smuggled in that are killing our children. This is an effort to collapse this nation and bring it to her knees. Alex Jones may be nuts but he has been on this for many years


19 posted on 10/20/2018 2:26:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

they are preparing for war against us, with Russia, China, and Iran..here we go..Come Lord


20 posted on 10/20/2018 2:33:00 AM PDT by aces
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