Posted on 01/04/2021 1:10:51 PM PST by USA Conservative
An El Paso-Juárez border bridge was blocked Tuesday overnight when a huge group of Cubans and other migrants tired of waiting in Mexico showed stormed into the United States.
Some left-leaning media reported that there were only 100 immigrants and they didn’t report about Biden’s chants.
Almost lost in the distractions of the holiday weekend, on the night of December 29 up to 400 mostly Cuban migrants forced their way past Mexican immigration and overpayment turnstiles on the Paso del Norte Bridge from Ciudad Juarez with a desire to force their way into downtown El Paso, Texas, according to news reporting.
Trump’s MPP and “Remain In Mexico Policy” saved the day! Shortly after 9 p.m., the bridge was shut down by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers with riot shields. The road was blocked by concrete barricades topped with rows of concertina wire at the top of the bridge.
The Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as MPP and the “Remain in Mexico” policy, requires most asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings before a U.S. immigration judge.
“Biden, Biden,” the migrants chanted, referring to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, while approaching the border at the crest of the bridge over the Rio Grande, reported the Diario de Juárez newspaper.
The migrants had heard a false rumor that they would be allowed to enter the United States, Juárez news outlets reported.
But with Trump still presiding, the blocked migrants with Biden on their minds were forced to listen to a recorded message broadcast over loudspeakers in Spanish and English warning that any further trouble would be met by force, arrests, and prosecution. That went on until the crowd dispersed at about dawn on December 30.
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This was not the first time CBP under Donald Trump has forcefully responded to surging migrants hoping to overrun the port of entry at El Paso and will almost certainly not be the last there or elsewhere.
Especially not now, judging by the chants and media interviews on the Paso del Norte Bridge this time about Biden’s many immigration promises heard widely throughout the Americas and beyond, including an amnesty bill, an end to deportations, and reversal of Trump immigration policies during his first 100 days in office. While sharp analysts like my CIS colleague Mark Krikorian judge that Biden is likely to slow-boil the frog on some of his immigration promises for pragmatic political reasons, what was said on the international bridge during the recent confrontation confirms that migrants don’t necessarily pay close attention to in-the-weeds political timing so much as big, broad, and directional messages.
The migrants on that bridge showed up with high expectations that the coming Biden administration somehow had already managed to swing open the gates as promised, never mind that Trump still has a few weeks to go.
Biden will welcome them with open arms to your town and an open wallet, yours.
They know the second they cross the border they are here for life..and the amount of freebies they will get from our Govt will be overwhelming, free health care, housing, you name it they will get it..America will be gone this is what is coming
Hire buses and drop these scum off at Biden’s estate!
Nope...
And so it RESUMES. We had a nice but very short respite from this crap when we had a president who really cares about the USA.
Which one?
That’s what they make machine guns, flamethrowers, and claymores for.
The amount of freebies...from the govt.
May I correct
The amount of freebies they get from US....
Thank you...respects
Yes that is what I meant, from US..and America will be finished, heck it might be finished tomorrow night if those two commies win
Even Spanish speaking Cubans don’t want to live in Mexico.
But what kind of “refugees” are they if they are in a safe country, and yet still want to barge the gates?
These Cubans must be dumb. Why go through Mexico when a short boat ride would guarantee freedom. Not sure I believe they were Cuban.
Open fire.
Defined accurately as a “target rich environment”...
Even Spanish speaking Cubans don’t want to live in Mexico.
Who could have predicted that?
I posted for the past 20 years that LANDMINES is the way to go. No more paying CBP dudes to risk their lives for these animals..
BUT NOOOOOO, limp-wrist Freepers kept saying that’s too hardcore..
Who says Biden can’t attract a crowd?
Reportedly, the Biden transition team has already been talking to the Governments of Mexico and the Northern Triangle about refugee/immigrant policy changes.
Mexico in particular was hesitant to open the floodgates right away, because of COVID. But that being the reported point of contention, itself highlights that the purpose of the talks was to get the flow going again.
My understanding is that they want to avoid (have discussed) very visible large caravans, and want them moved in smaller groups (presumably to avoid notice/reporting). Susan Rice has already been preparing to reopen the “magic word” asylum loophole, big enough to drive a steady stream of trucks and buses through.
They are also talking about allocating more money to “supporting” migrants - presumably funding temporary housing, transportation, etc.; and likely getting them set up with “emergency” benefits like food stamps/EBT and medical care.
Mexico is like every other nation on earth. They think that they are superior to everyone else. Apparently only nations like the US and Australia and Britain are supposed to accommodate anyone who waltzes in.
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