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Guatemalan Official: Caravan Used Babies, Women, Elderly As 'Human Shields'
CNS News ^ | October 31, 2018 | 7:19 AM EDT | Susan Jones

Posted on 11/01/2018 8:21:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

(CNSNews.com) - Guatemalan security forces were not able to hold back the thousands of people, many from Honduras, who broke through a chain-link fence into Mexico earlier this month.

Videos posted online show the moment when the border was breached and members of the "caravan" – the first of two -- dashed into Mexico, on their way to the United States.

Why couldn't Guatemalan security forces hold them back? Fox News's Laura Ingraham asked Mario Duarte, the Guatemalan Secretary of Strategic Intelligence, on Tuesday night:

"Central American countries, we have these agreements since 2006 or 2008 that our citizens can freely move between the countries as long as they carry their national I.D. and go through a regular immigration process or a border checkpoints,” Duarte responded.

“Now, these caravans as you have seen from different videos, it was a very, very big group of over 3,000 people. And Guatemalan security forces, let me say really quickly, we put over 2,000 police officers and close to 1,000 military--"

"Yeah, But you couldn't hold them back, Mr. Secretary," Ingraham interrupted.

"We tried very hard, as you could have seen in the videos," Duarte responded. “The issue is that these people put babies, women and the elderly at the front, almost like human shields, so when they started pressing them against our security personnel we had to do all our best to protect their lives, to protect their human rights and protect their dignity as well," Duarate said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; caravan; elsalvador; guatemala; honduras; illegals; invasion; msmdirectedinvation; msmledinvasion; soros
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1 posted on 11/01/2018 8:21:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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“The issue is that these people put babies, women and the elderly at the front, almost like human shields...

THIS is the difference between the culture of thuggery and the culture of those people in the same countries who 'get on the list AND play by the rules.

2 posted on 11/01/2018 8:26:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As expected.


3 posted on 11/01/2018 8:27:13 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This tactic coupled with Mob Media cheerleading will be employed at our border.


4 posted on 11/01/2018 8:27:26 AM PDT by hardspunned
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“The issue is that these people put babies, women and the elderly at the front, almost like human shields...

THIS is the difference between the culture of thuggery and the culture of those people in the same countries who 'get on the list AND play by the rules.

A new law saying, "NO ONE who breaks into our country illegally will ever be allowed to be a citizen."

5 posted on 11/01/2018 8:27:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They ARE bringing diseases here. These liberals don’t care if our children are exposed.


6 posted on 11/01/2018 8:29:54 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Then let the women, children, and elderly through first and put them somewhere safe for later deportation back home, and then deal with the thugs behind them.


7 posted on 11/01/2018 8:29:55 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Dems are hoping Trump separates families again ?


8 posted on 11/01/2018 8:31:20 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Let the women with children and the elderly though.
All on the Mexican side of the border.
Then do not allow the rest to move.
And if they react violently ..mow them down.


9 posted on 11/01/2018 8:31:25 AM PDT by Leep (?)
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Since when did dims care about children.


10 posted on 11/01/2018 8:32:54 AM PDT by Leep (?)
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"We tried very hard to stop them, but they put babies, women and the elderly out front,
like human shields.So when they started pressing against our security personnel
we had to protect the people's lives, to protect their human rights and protect their dignity," Duarte said.

Translated from the Spanish: "We put on a good show to keep getting all that foreign aid in our numbered bank accounts.
Hell, we had to let these dudes get through. Their remittances support our mistresses' lavish lifestyle.....no money, no nookie."

11 posted on 11/01/2018 8:35:21 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: E. Pluribus Unum

Same tactics as Hamas, ISIS, Democrats . . .


12 posted on 11/01/2018 8:35:45 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Same tactic’s as moozlem terrorists use in their reign of terror against all those that they fight against.


13 posted on 11/01/2018 8:37:05 AM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.ai is totally and completely Free Speech based.)
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Since when did dims care about children.

When those children can be used to damage, degrade, or destroy America.

14 posted on 11/01/2018 8:37:22 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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15 posted on 11/01/2018 8:37:33 AM PDT by yoe (A vote for the Left is a vote against YOUR Constitution, open borders, higher taxes, more government)
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Is there a problem firing 10, 15, 20 ‘rows’ back? BEHIND the human shields.

See who wants to be a ‘martyr’...


16 posted on 11/01/2018 8:42:34 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

in true UN style


17 posted on 11/01/2018 8:44:07 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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Place your security forces in elevated positions (”cherry-picker” lifts), then fire rubber bullets/beanbags at the cowardly scumbag men doing the pushing from BEHIND the women & children.

Or, use paintball ammo with skunk oil and bright fluorescent colors, for future identification of the troublemakers.


18 posted on 11/01/2018 8:54:31 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why don’t they make two mob lines. One for the women, children and elderly, the other for thugs. We’ll probably see thugs in drag then.
Why don’t the WCE remain in the back of the line?


19 posted on 11/01/2018 8:55:43 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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I don’t want to ‘fire’ on any of these people. I want to change the law so ANY person entering our county illegally will NEVER be granted citizenship for any reason.


20 posted on 11/01/2018 9:02:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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