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Mexicans form human chain along border to protest Trump's wall
Los Angeles Times ^ | 17 Feb 17 | Staff

Posted on 02/18/2017 4:27:02 AM PST by SkyPilot

CUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico Around 1,500 Mexicans protested against U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border Friday by making a human chain.

"Hand in hand we show a national unity that makes no distinction between people," said Senator Armando Rios Piter as he stood with other politicians and students along the Rio Grande near Ciudad Juarez. "Mexico is more than a wall."

Armando Cabada, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez, said the human chain showed that people in the border region were more united than ever.

The mayor of El Paso, Texas, just across the border from Ciudad Juarez, also took part in the protest. "We are one city," Oscar Leeser said.

A human chain was also planned in the border town of Tijuana.

Trump made construction of a wall along the Mexican border the highlight of his presidential campaign and signed an executive order on building a wall less than a week after taking office.

He said construction would start within months and that the US expected to be reimbursed by Mexico.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: border; illegals; mexico; trump
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This "spontaneous protest" was organized by the Mexican government and Mexican elites. I guarantee you that.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is being to panic. He thought he could intimidate President Trump last month, and when Trump handed him his a$$ during a phone call, Nieto cancelled the meeting.

The Mexican elites not only get to shed their dregs into our country, including violent criminals, but Mexico takes over $25 Billion back into Mexico due to illegal labor in the US. Add in a few more Billion due to the illegal child tax credit scheme.

We don't need you Mexico.


1 posted on 02/18/2017 4:27:02 AM PST by SkyPilot
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Well, while they’re standing there like dumb fenceposts at least there is a fence (wall) of some sort keeping their countrymen in.

If DC Dems and cube critters are nervous, the Mexicans are in a proper panic. It reveals just how much they rely on US dollars shipped south via legal and dodgy avenues.


2 posted on 02/18/2017 4:31:49 AM PST by relictele (`)
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To: SkyPilot

So Mexico DID build The Wall.

Winning.


3 posted on 02/18/2017 4:35:22 AM PST by moovova
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To: SkyPilot

“As Mexican people, we are proud to want to escape from Mexico! No wall will prevent us from escaping the country we love so much!”

/sarc


4 posted on 02/18/2017 4:37:07 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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Something I noticed in the photo...

There appears to be plenty of lovely open ground along The Wall...perfect for a minefield.

"A mine is a terrible thing to waste."

5 posted on 02/18/2017 4:41:55 AM PST by moovova
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To: SkyPilot; Fred Nerks

¿SOSTENIENDO LAS MANOS EN LA FRONTERA? ¡Este es un entorno rico en objetivos!

Aquí está su lección de español para hoy:

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

He planteado aloha snackbar a un nuevo nivel de creatividad. Me burlo de los islamistas jugando con el nombre sagrado de Allah.

El término apropiado es Allahhu Ackbar. ( Alá es grande)

Cuando dijo que rápidamente suena como “Allahhoo Whackbar”.

Encarece a los islamistas locos al oír que uno lo toma un paso más y lo convierten en un entusiasta entusiasta:

“AllahWahoo Whackbar”, especialmente cuando los jihadistas son exterminados.

O cuando mucha publicidad sale de la boca del representante de CAIR, uno puede gritar en su conferencia de prensa:

Allahwhaoo Yackbar!

¿O te estás burlando de Lazamataz, puedes decir:

Allahwahoo Lazbar!

Es un sistema lingüístico algo parecido al latín porcino, y está atrapándose en ciertos círculos rojos del cuello.

Estoy trabajando en otro proyecto:

Por supuesto que han oído el sonido de la llamada a la oración que proviene de las torres de las mezquitas (el llamado del

Adhan, el llamado islámico a la adoración, recitado por el almuédano) No estoy cambiando la llamada, sólo añadiendo a yodel sueco.

No ridiculizo al Islam, pero la gente se burla de varias religiones todo el tiempo, y nadie las dispara. Los musulmanes tienen que aprender la misma forma de tolerancia y planeo darles muchas oportunidades.


6 posted on 02/18/2017 4:42:24 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SkyPilot

Im currently in Colombia and even here Mexicans aren’t welcome....


7 posted on 02/18/2017 4:45:03 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: SkyPilot

How many of those 1500 Mexicans took a shot at running for the US border since they were there?


8 posted on 02/18/2017 4:52:19 AM PST by Blue Highway (Q)
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To: SkyPilot

The wall just got 10 feet higher.


9 posted on 02/18/2017 5:01:12 AM PST by McBuff
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To: moovova

Lmao


10 posted on 02/18/2017 5:02:44 AM PST by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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Why are these idiots not protesting their own government? There is a huge wall on Mexico’s southern border to keep ILLEGALS OUT OF MEXICO. It’s American’s turn to do the same thing.


11 posted on 02/18/2017 5:07:36 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: moovova

Open ground=sniper paradise.


12 posted on 02/18/2017 5:10:33 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: SkyPilot

Mexicans form human chain along border to protest Trump's wall ..to protest the disruption of establishing Aztlan.


13 posted on 02/18/2017 5:30:49 AM PST by Koracan
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To: SkyPilot

Shell - Beehive!


14 posted on 02/18/2017 6:08:20 AM PST by Redleg Duke (He is leading us in Making America Great Again!)
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We don't need you Mexico.

They are our 2nd largest export market (and just a couple points from being our first). What business can you think of that would say it don't need its 2nd biggest customer?

15 posted on 02/18/2017 6:09:39 AM PST by Poison Pill
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So the Mexican demonstrators thought to take control of the American border themselves. Americans are no longer in charge of their border. It is time to disabuse them of that notion.


16 posted on 02/18/2017 6:22:49 AM PST by odawg
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To: relictele

“If DC Dems and cube critters are nervous, the Mexicans are in a proper panic. It reveals just how much they rely on US dollars shipped south via legal and dodgy avenues.”

Mexico is a festering boil on America’s a$$, and it has been since it’s founding.


17 posted on 02/18/2017 6:41:16 AM PST by vette6387
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Whenever they demand we return California to Mexico, I ask them when they’re returning Mexico to the Aztecs.


18 posted on 02/18/2017 6:53:37 AM PST by relictele (`)
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"Hand in hand we show a national unity that makes no distinction between people,"

Hate to tell you, Pedro, but by using the term "national" you are making a distinction between peoples.

19 posted on 02/18/2017 6:54:42 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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Oh the irony. Cabada actually lives in El Paso.


20 posted on 02/18/2017 7:12:41 AM PST by SanchoP
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