Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Mexico cracks down on illegal entry at southern border: 'Get in line and you can enter our country'
Washington Times ^ | December 12, 2018 | ap

Posted on 12/12/2018 5:51:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top security official said Wednesday the government will close off illegal entries at its southern border with Guatemala, but didn’t say how the country plans to do it.

Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero also said the migrant caravans that crossed the southern border in October “is no longer an issue.”

“Do you know why it is no longer an issue? Because in five days this administration solved the issue, five days,” she said, referring to the first week since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office Dec. 1. “The United States was impressed.”

The new administration has mobilized material and equipment to improve conditions at the migrants’ shelter in the northern border city of Tijuana, but problems continue because the Central American there are frustrated by the slow pace at which U.S. officials are processing asylum requests.

Sanchez Cordero said Mexico will promote a “Christmas at Home” campaign to encourage many of the migrants to return to their home countries for the holidays.

Discussing the entry of migrants, she said the new administration will end the practice of undocumented or illegal crossings over the Suchiate River, which marks much of the border between Mexico and Guatemala.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderecurity; buildthewall; deportthemall; enfurcethelaw; illegalimmigration; illegals; invasion; mexico; mexicoborder; migrants; trumpwall
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last
Mexico may get border security before we do. Racist bastards. /s
1 posted on 12/12/2018 5:51:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson

It’s about time Mexico enforced their birders! The recent incident was a costly oversight on their part!


2 posted on 12/12/2018 5:55:28 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BunnySlippers

Ahh... enforced their BORDERS!


3 posted on 12/12/2018 5:55:58 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson
"will close off illegal entries at its southern border with Guatemala, but didn’t say how the country plans to do it. "

How about building a wall?

4 posted on 12/12/2018 6:26:54 PM PST by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson

Mexico is extremely harsh on illegals there.

I would say we need to adopt mexicos standards on dealing with illegals.

Any lib says but we arent mexico, we just tell them were dealing with the problem the same way the peaceful and intelligent and loving people of mexico deal with their border issues.


5 posted on 12/12/2018 6:28:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fruser1

Mexico actually has a southern border wall.


6 posted on 12/12/2018 6:29:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BunnySlippers

Too little, too late.


7 posted on 12/12/2018 6:32:13 PM PST by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: fruser1

Trump’s Wall? And Mexico is building it.


8 posted on 12/12/2018 6:33:26 PM PST by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson; Liz; AuntB; greyfoxx39; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; ...

I wonder how long this policy will last ???


9 posted on 12/12/2018 6:36:01 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dhs12345

Trump’s Wall? And Mexico is building it.

************

Well they do a lot of construction work
stateside or so it is said.


10 posted on 12/12/2018 6:36:57 PM PST by deport
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man
Mexico actually has a southern border wall.

////////

Yes in bits and pieces but we need a continuous wall
from the Gulf of Mexico the the Pacific Ocean.

11 posted on 12/12/2018 6:39:45 PM PST by deport
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: deport

Cut off the flow from south America through central America will help.


12 posted on 12/12/2018 6:43:25 PM PST by dhs12345
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: dhs12345

Indeed!

All of the countries that the caravan travelled through on their way to the USA did squat to stop them. The agreement we signed with them is that refugees fleeing persecution had to go to further than the adjoining country. Any request for asylum from other countries would be denied.

So Mexico has to be the dumbest! They knew they were last!


13 posted on 12/12/2018 6:46:58 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson

Mexico is finally having to deal with illegal aliens instead of just being a pass through.
If they think they will be stuck with them, they will control who gets in.


14 posted on 12/12/2018 7:17:26 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson

“in five days this administration solved the issue, five days,” she said, referring to the first week since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office”

If this is true and the flow gets choked off down there, we should see apprehensions at our border drop off a few weeks later, as the ones already in the pipeline in Mexico run out.

In the first week of the new Mexican Administration (first week in December), we actually saw a surge in apprehensions at our border. That could have been an effect of the Federales clearing out the caravan camp in Tijuana (which they did relocate ten miles from the border, and put under Federal control), as well as flushing out other groups.

There clearly was some significant activity, but it remains to be seen if it is really significant for real results, or more for looks. They might just force the human smugglers to keep group sizes to no more than a busload, forbid media coverage, and pass them through more discretely.

The numbers over the next few weeks will tell the tale.

If President Trump/Jared Kushner really cut a deal to get them to fix a big part of the problem, that would be a major achievement, because AMLO (the new Mexican President) is a pretty hard-core Leftist, who ran as a proponent of unrestricted migration as a human right.


15 posted on 12/12/2018 7:20:03 PM PST by BeauBo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fruser1

Yeah. Walls never work. So say liberal progressives. They also said we could never drill our way out of foreign oil dependence. Go figure.


16 posted on 12/12/2018 7:28:51 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: All

Hallelu-Yah!


17 posted on 12/12/2018 7:54:36 PM PST by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson

“will close off illegal entries at its southern border with Guatemala, but didn’t say how the country plans to do it. “

mucho tear gas lobbed at the river when necessary solves THAT problem ...


18 posted on 12/12/2018 8:17:32 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BeauBo

When you’ve got ‘em by the trade agreement, their hearts and minds will follow...


19 posted on 12/12/2018 8:22:14 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Tennessee Nana

Let’s hope it lasts until we can get the wall built... many thanks to Mexico...


20 posted on 12/12/2018 8:40:21 PM PST by GOPJ (Term limit DC SWAMP bureaucrats - a permanent unelected ruling class is a threat to our democracy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson