Posted on 03/30/2018 5:29:56 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Taking a drag from her cigarette, a Mexican immigration agent looked out toward a caravan of migrants that grew larger with each step they took on the two-lane highway.
When the agent, who'd covered her uniform with an orange and white shawl, learned that the Central Americans migrants heading her way numbered more than 1,000, she took off for the restaurant across the street.
"I'm going to have a relaxing Coke," she told BuzzFeed News.
For five days now hundreds of Central Americans — children, women and men, most of them from Honduras — have boldly crossed immigration check points, military bases, and police in a desperate, sometimes chaotic march toward the United States. Despite being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.
Organized by a group of volunteers called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, the caravan is intended to help migrants safely reach the United States, not only bypassing authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants.
Organizers like Rodrigo Abeja hope that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.
"If we all protect each other we'll get through this together," Abeja yelled through a loudspeaker on the morning they left Tapachula, on Mexico's border with Guatemala, for the nearly monthlong trek.
When they get to the US, they hope American authorities will grant them asylum or, for some, be absent when they attempt to cross the border illegally. More likely is that it will set up an enormous challenge to the Trump administration's immigration policies and its ability to deal with an organized group of migrants numbering in the hundreds.
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Perhaps the time has come to declare war on Mexico?
Perfect excuse to militarize the border region.
“Give them a whiff of the grape.” — Napoleon
It would make sense. We could take a border buffer zone out of Mexican territory and build the wall in it.
Human smuggling.....
Stop these damn people.
We should treat it as such.
Yup.
Ska-rew May-hick-oh!
"Annex" a mile and build the wall. Take the river. They deserve it.
So, why doesn’t Mexico just let them stay in Mexico? Why don’t they want to stay in Mexico? (rhetorical..)
What Mexico is kinda worried about....if this wall deal ever gets built....a whole bunch of non-Mexicans will be stuck on the Mexico side, and it’ll trigger an internal mess for them to clean up.
Bribery of the right official gets you pretty much anything you want in Mexico.
That’s exactly right. Mexico is NOT welcoming to immigrants. If folks from Guatemala are moving through Mexico and ending up in the US, they think that’s fine. But if those Guatemalans and Ecuadoreans and Bolivians enter Mexico and don’t leave Mexico, Mexico is going to be really unhappy.
We should be using our trade deficit with Mexico as leverage to get them to do their job in stopping border crossings. It’s way past time to start taxing remittances to Mexico until they stop contributing to illegal immigration to the US.
Round up 10,000 undesirable illegal aliens and dump them in Mexico. Tell Mexico that the 10-1 ratio will be maintained as long as Mexico facilitates the illegal invasion of the U.S.
The coming ”confrontation” with Trump is the point. Soros photo-ops.
“The coming ”confrontation” with Trump is the point. Soros photo-ops.”
I agree. The media will be there in force to watch
them being turned back by the heartless Trump police...
I like your plan.
That’s a really good point.
The day is likely coming when there is going to be a violent interaction between poor immigrant woman and children and the US Border patrol or similar agency — a set-up. Blood will flow and Soros and the globalists will have gotten exactly what the arranged. Then the corrupt MSM and the Communist left will run those pictures and video ad infinitum for propaganda purposes.
Seeing tanks and other armaments pointed in their direction with first a warning siren, the announcement to go back home or be fired upon, and if they continue to approach, a warning shot. We are at war, time we act like it. Yep.
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