I read this years ago and I did not think it could ever come to pass. Now I think Raspail is prescient.
Posted on 06/16/2014 11:32:35 AM PDT by jazusamo
MISSION, Texas – At daybreak in this border town, two women from Guatemala – one with a small child strapped to her back – wait patiently on the levee overlooking the Rio Grande.
They have been instructed by the "coyote" who ferried them across the river for an exorbitant fee – as much as $1,000 – to simply wait for the Border Patrol to pick them up. After processing, they will likely be given a notice to appear before an immigration judge and a bus ticket to wherever in America they may have friends or relatives.
That’s the way it goes, day in and day out, in what has become ground zero of the latest immigration crisis. Thousands upon thousands of people from Central America exploiting the porous border of the Rio Grande Valley to enter the United States.
“If we don't send the message that they can’t just come in and stay here, it's gonna continue, this wave of humanity,” said Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar. Cuellar is a Democrat, but an outspoken critic of how President Obama has handled this crisis.
“He still has a long way to go to improve this, and we've been asking him, don't just listen to the words of the bureaucrats up there in Washington, listen to the men and women who work here,” Cuellar told Fox News.
If you listen to the men and women who work here – and have been instructed to not talk to the media – they are being overwhelmed. One Border Patrol officer, on condition of anonymity, told Fox News the massive influx of unaccompanied children and family units has taken the Border Patrol completely off mission.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The guy knows how to overwhelm the system, I'll grant him that.
Deliberate child abuse.
Obama the coyote master.
Obama the pimp in chief.
For the sake of future votes and Progressive ideology.
The man is a monster. The knowing and deliberate traffiking and abuse of children.
Any chance the Texans themselves will tell the feds to piss off and go and defend the border themselves??
I read this years ago and I did not think it could ever come to pass. Now I think Raspail is prescient.
I’m a little surprised that a lot of Texans are not raising heck about this already, maybe they are and the enemedia isn’t covering it.
Meanwhile, down at the VA hospitals many of our veterans stand waiting for treatment....Our schools, social services, jails and healthcare offices are choked off....Seniors are told they'll be lucky to get back any of their looted income back in Social Security while decades long disastrous foreign policies cost middle America trillions in American treausre...
I hate to break out the tinfoil hat, but how does the word that folks in these Latin American backwater villages need to send their children to the United States get spread?
I know they didn’t simultaneously just wake up and say, “Hey. I think I’ll send the young’uns to the US today.”
well I know Rick Perry is a big illegal immigrant lover and he’s also a big windbag wussy when it comes to border security ...so, no ...the state is not going to do a damn thing .....
The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des saints) is a 1973 French apocalyptic novel by Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a hypothetical setting whereby Third World mass immigration to France and the West led to the destruction of Western civilization. It sparked controversial reactions ranging from prophetic to discriminatory. Almost forty years after publication the book which influenced Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand returned to the bestseller list in 2011
From National Review:
The book is full of historical allusions. The title of the novel comes from the Book of Revelation. A character who opposes the armada — portrayed in the French press as a villain — bears the name of the last Byzantine emperor.
Raspail was ahead of his time in demonstrating that Western civilization had lost its sense of purpose and history — its “exceptionalism.” If the loss of self-confidence on the part of Western liberal society was apparent in 1973, it is much more so today. The pious nonsense spouted in the novel by apologists for the overwhelming onslaught against France merely adumbrates what has become mainstream today.
Of course, Raspail was denounced as a racist, and his emphasis on the white race can indeed be off-putting. But the central issue of the novel is not race but culture and political principles. The United States has always welcomed immigrants, but until recently, it has expected them to assimilate — in other words, to become “Americans.” The traditional focus of American society has been the individual. Instead, multiculturalism has spawned a balkanized society of resentful members of various groups that seek favors for themselves, often at the expense of other groups — identity politics at its worst.
And that is the real danger today — that the American political system will be swamped by people who seek material goods but who disdain the American achievement in creating a government that protects the individual rights of all, without regard to membership in a favored group.
Homeland Security personnel were known to be in Central America, and the children/adults are coming by the ‘death train’ through Mexico...so who is paying for it?
Wonder what Cuellar's attitude would be if these people were not OTMs
Great question...Upon reading it I immediately thought probably the same, but after thinking a bit I’m not so sure.
I just looked through the online version of today's San Antonio Express and you're right... they're not even touching it.
A picture worth a 1000 words:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3167581/posts?page=5#5
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3167581/posts
Well.. if this doesn't garner their attention, I guess it's not that pressing. Sure fooled me...
Time for Governors to ignore whatever the Feds say and take care of it themselves. If some federal judge tells them no, ignore them and do it anyways.
Wow...Easy to see why they refer to them as “death trains.”
Amen to that. There comes a point in time to do what it takes for self preservation, we’re past that point.
Obama is creating jobs in Mexico...Mexicans ferry illegal immigrants across the Rio Grande. According to police, they charge $100 a head for the 100-yard ride..
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