"El Trump!"
Posted on 04/14/2017 5:02:45 AM PDT by bryan999
NOGALES, Mexico—In the 35 years Gilda and Juan Francisco Loureiro have been running a shelter in northern Mexico for undocumented immigrants, they’ve never seen a week like this one.
The shelter, called Albergue San Juan Bosco, is perched on a steep hillside looking over the busy border town of Nogales, Mexico. Its walls are painted bright turquoise and tangerine, and its wide-open double doors look west over low hills and Highway 15. Since they opened it, upward of 1 million people have slept there on their way to the U.S. But on the day I visited, it was almost empty.
It didn’t used to be this way, Gilda and Juan Francisco, known as Paco, explained. In the decades since they opened the space to give migrants a place to shower and sleep before crossing the border, the shelter—with separate rooms full of bunkbeds for men and women—would regularly house 100 migrants per night. Sometimes, that number would hit 300 or more, and Gilda and Paco would pull out thin mattresses to fit everyone on the floor.
But today, those mattresses are neatly stacked in a closet, untouched. And the shelter is almost empty—no women travelers, and fewer than a dozen men. That’s despite the fact that April, with its mild weather, should be the busiest time of year for migrants. The place is all but dead. Gilda and Paco have never seen anything like it.
They can only think of one explanation: President Donald Trump.
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Winning.
Somebody needs to put this wonderful couple on the ICE list for “aiding and abetting”.
That goes in both the Passing The Buck Hall of Fame and the Trump's Fault Hall of Fame.
The virtual wall of fear is working.
The answer to stopping illegals crossing the borders has always been simple.
Remove the incentives.
Punish the criminals.
It is not necessary to round up all the illegals, just make it more difficult for them to be here. They will leave on their own. They found their way here without our help, they can find their way home without our help (although in this case I don’t mind the government providing transportation to their own country, and if their own country don’t want them , dump them into Mexico.
There should be no welfare, no schools and no jobs for any person in this country illegally.
So who was paying the couple to house, feed and provide showers to “a million illegals?
One illegal deported four times and only now is fearful.
MAGA
Along with every Catholic bishop in the country.
Good!
Somebody took away the gravy train.
“This is no accident,” Sessions told an audience of reporters and Customs and Border Protections officials.
He then detailed new priorities for federal prosecutors, including felony prosecutions in certain situations of people who re-enter the U.S. illegally after being deported. According to AllLaw.com, a felony conviction for illegal re-entry typically carries a sentence of up to two years.
The migrants who spoke to The Daily Beast hadn’t heard of Jeff Sessions. But they’d heard about his plans.
“Is it true I’ll go to prison for two years if I get arrested?” a Honduran man named Mynor asked in Spanish.
Yes, an just imagine mr. barack husseiin obama, we now have a president in office who represents Ameican citizens. May we all live to urinate on your grave.
Largely enhanced by liberals fear mongering. Quite amusing.
IMO, Gilda and Juan Francisco Loureiro should be brought up on war crimes charges at the Hague.
“the structural realities that drive migration”
I don’t think the media is prepared for an honest discussion about those realities.
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