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Online Liberals Show Their Ignorance on the Issue of Immigration Again After Trump's Coyote Comment
Townhall ^ | 10/23/2020 | Julio Rosas

Posted on 10/23/2020 2:35:29 PM PDT by Signalman

People voiced their confusion as it appeared many believed Trump was referring to the animal and not the common terminology for people who smuggle illegal immigrants across the border.

And here lies the issue with liberals who only know how to virtue signal: They do not know the basic facts about the issues of illegal immigration and the hardship migrants face when making the dangerous trek. Many only see immigrants and the Latino community as a whole, as a political weapon to bash Republicans with.

Anyone who has a basic understanding of the nature of the human trafficking situation at the U.S.-Mexico border understands "coyote" is the go-to phrase to describe people in the business. And they are not doing it out of the kindness of their heart. They charge large sums of money before the trip can even be made and are more than willing to leave people behind in the desert if they can not keep up or if they feel they are at risk of being caught by U.S. authorities themselves. More often than not, the coyotes are in the service of whatever drug cartel controls the region they are crossing over from.

This is not the first time their ignorance on the issue backfired. Recall in 2018 there was a big push from liberals and Democrats to post photographs of migrant kids in cages to highlight the "cruel" nature of the Trump administration. Except the only problem is the pictures they were posting were taken during the Obama administration because they were built while he was in office.

As I just came back from the U.S.-Mexico border in the El Paso Sector, even the claim from Democrats of the Trump administration not building any new wall where none existed before is not really true in practice. The previous "wall" was functionally useless in stopping illegal foot and vehicle crossings.

Recommended WSJ Columnist Zeroes In on the Real Issue Joe Biden Faces After Exposure of Shady China Deal Matt Vespa In regards to the 545 immigrant children who have been unable to be reunited with their parents, as moderator Kristin Welker asked, the Department of Homeland Security Chase Jennings said it doe not tell the whole story:

"DHS has taken every step to facilitate the reunification of these families where the parents wanted such reunification to occur. The simple fact is this: after contact has been made with the parents to reunite them with their children, many parents have refused. In the current litigation, for example, out of the parents of 485 children whom Plaintiffs’ counsel has been able to contact, they have yet to identify a single family that wants their child reunited with them in their country of origin. The result is that the children remain in the U.S. while the parents remain in their home country."


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KEYWORDS: coyote; immigration
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To: Signalman; Blurb2350; Al; FReepers

21 posted on 10/23/2020 3:21:00 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Signalman

Citizens of other countries have no right to break into our country.

We do have the right to remove them when they do.


22 posted on 10/23/2020 3:21:04 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

arrogance and ignorance in one package, how convenient...


23 posted on 10/23/2020 3:23:45 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Signalman

There are actual people who don’t know that a coyote is basically a human smuggler? That desperate people pay extreme amounts of money to get help crossing the border?

Really hard to believe.


24 posted on 10/23/2020 3:24:28 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: Signalman

Heard this on Morning On the Mall this morning. Sad, so very sad.


25 posted on 10/23/2020 3:34:14 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (In this circus called the Democrat Party, Biden is the monkey and Harris is the organ grinder...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

An example of the synergy created when affirmative action meets participation-trophy mentality.


26 posted on 10/23/2020 3:34:15 PM PDT by russellkirkconservative
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To: EasySt

Actually the coyote is pulling a cartel which is spanish for little cart. A team of coyotes can pull a cartel of 12 small children over 70 miles in 1 day.


27 posted on 10/23/2020 3:37:12 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Follow your Inner Trump)
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To: Chode

I think she might be proving Herrnstein and Murrays’ conclusions.


28 posted on 10/23/2020 4:04:26 PM PDT by diatomite (Soros delenda est and his flying monkeys too.)
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To: Chode

Belly laugh. Thanks.

“Through the nostrils.” That’s Babylon Bee quality right there.


29 posted on 10/23/2020 4:14:54 PM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: diatomite

she be on da shallow end of the curve


30 posted on 10/23/2020 4:41:55 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Signalman
Quick reminder...

There are only two primary reasons why people try to sneak across the border:

(1) They cannot get a USA visa legally - usually because they were previously deported, or have a criminal or gang record, or cannot prove they have enough money to be self-sufficient during their USA visit.

(2) Or, many times, women and children who CAN get a visa sneak across with a husband, a boyfriend, or male family member who CANNOT get a visa.

The number of “unaccompanied minors” is a very small number compared to the first two examples.

Anyone who has a visa can buy a $25 bus ticket from Tijuana to Los Angeles, or just walk across at an official border crossing.

31 posted on 10/23/2020 4:42:40 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: dsc

OH yeah... /snort


32 posted on 10/23/2020 4:45:10 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Signalman

Another point...

“Coyotes” are almost 100% gang members.

Almost every mile of the USA-Mexico border is controlled by a gang.

If you try to cross - either way - without paying them, they will kill you, or steal everything you have, if they catch you.


33 posted on 10/23/2020 4:52:55 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: bleach

and let that sink in real good


34 posted on 10/23/2020 4:54:02 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: KarlInOhio

see post #8


35 posted on 10/23/2020 4:55:20 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

In October of 2020, during the Presidential Debate, Kendrick posted on Twitter the following: “Did @realDonaldTrump just say 545 kids they can’t find their parents for came over through “cartels and coyotes”?! How the hell does a coyote bring a whole human across the border?! Lord-——stop talking. #FinalDebate” Ms. Kendrick confused the term used to describe people that smuggle Latin Americans across the border illegally with the American wild animal known as a coyote. [5]


36 posted on 10/23/2020 4:59:49 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Menehune56

Thanks.


37 posted on 10/23/2020 5:20:01 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Signalman
I'm trying to understand a parent who gets separated from his/her kid and doesn't want him back. The concept is totally alien to me, there have to be other reasons, like:

1) Not really their child. The "parent" is either a coyote or a human trafficker. If they attempt to retrieve, they will be caught and imprisoned.
2) Desperation. Can't support/protect the child in their home country, so they abandon him/her there. Sure, he's incarcerated but they hope for a better life eventually.
3) Same reason you have babies in US hospital if possible - anchor baby. They will reunite in the US or not at all. They'll let him rot in a cage for the chance it will get them into the US.

Only option 2) is even marginally moral - even with the best treatment it must be devastating to the child.

38 posted on 10/23/2020 5:36:53 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Blurb2350

i never noticed how big her feet are in those urban cowboyish boots


39 posted on 10/23/2020 7:13:10 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: blueplum

Yeah, she definitely should have gone with a sensible pair of “boot cut” jeans instead of those skin-tight white highwaters.


40 posted on 10/23/2020 7:25:00 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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