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We Are Hungry!' Migrants Wail at Mexico-Guatemala Border
New York Times ^ | 10/20/2018 | AP via NYT

Posted on 10/19/2018 9:50:17 PM PDT by Rusty0604

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala — A standoff between thousands of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States and Mexican police stretched through the night with some migrants hanging from the closed border gate wailing "there are children here" while others slept on the crowded bridge linking Guatemala to Mexico.

But they were met Friday by a wall of police with riot shields on the Mexican side of the bridge. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated, joining the sea of humanity on the bridge.

Police and immigration agents began letting small groups of 10, 20 or 30 people through the gates if they wanted to apply for refugee status. Once they file a claim, they can go to a shelter to spend the night.

As night fell on the bridge, the migrants' frustration turned to despair as women clutching small children took up the rows in front of the gate pleading with the Mexican federal police. Some migrants yelled "We are hungry!" Others wailed that they had children while others set up tarps to prepare for the night sleeping on the increasingly dirty and befouled bridge.

A Mexican marine official with a loudspeaker approached the gate and told migrants they would be taken in trucks to "a humanitarian attention center" in Tapachula, a border city in the Mexican state of Chiapas. But the official did not say when this would happen.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; braking; caravan; gohome; guatemala; honduras; hondurascaravan; illegals; illegalsinvasion; immigration; returnhome; trump; wompwomp
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
"If Trump doesn’t stop this invasion...I’m done with him."

If Trump doesn't stop this invasion, we will all soon be done with this country because it will be collapsed by waves of invaders.

101 posted on 10/20/2018 4:42:26 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: All

Be prepared for the onslaught of media sob stories of starving children.

Also, I’m sure CNN will find the story of poor little Sofia and her family. Sofia is dying and needs a liver transplant but can’t get into the country because of Trump

All timed a few days before the election of course


102 posted on 10/20/2018 4:49:56 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Republican Wildcat

... yet the media will portray it was “Trump’s fault”, “Republicans’ fault”, etc.
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Prez Trump made that point at his rally. He said it was his fault that everyone wants to come here because the USA is so successful economically with jobs, etc., etc.


103 posted on 10/20/2018 4:50:33 AM PDT by octex
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To: Governor Dinwiddie


104 posted on 10/20/2018 4:53:49 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

They “are hungry”?
Let them eat cake. On a more serious note, there are plenty of rats and rodents in the bush that they can go kill and have for dinner. It’s not our problem. It’s not the problem of the Mexican government. They put themselves in that situation.


105 posted on 10/20/2018 4:54:23 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Soros probably fed them. Now the old Nazi will let them starve to put pressure on America.


106 posted on 10/20/2018 4:55:36 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: nopardons

not to mention, they’re still not out of their own country. Most are only a few hours from home.


107 posted on 10/20/2018 4:55:56 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Georgie Porgie Devil’s Spawn.


108 posted on 10/20/2018 4:58:24 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: Reno89519

They promised their wives they’d send for them later. Once across, they’ll marry a clueless American girl.


109 posted on 10/20/2018 5:00:02 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial

Food station is 10 miles in opposite direction of us. See you there if hungry


110 posted on 10/20/2018 5:02:06 AM PDT by rlbedfor
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To: conservative98

fire on them....Im sure they will turn around


111 posted on 10/20/2018 5:06:34 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“Go tell it to Soros.”

According to some reports, he is feeding them already. Funny how none of the news clips show them eating. Ever. Supposedly, Soros is providing them cash, food, water, and even portable restroom facilities along the way. Four thousand creature on a multi-week trek ... someone’s taking care of them.


112 posted on 10/20/2018 5:07:55 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Iron Munro
Grimace there has not walked farther than the parking to the counter at her local McDonalds in over 15 years.

And the only food she's missed is the salad bar.

113 posted on 10/20/2018 5:07:56 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: heshtesh

the term termites come to mind


114 posted on 10/20/2018 5:07:57 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: conservative98

We need someone tougher than Ben Richards.


115 posted on 10/20/2018 5:20:00 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: fieldmarshaldj

spend the money they were paid by Soros , obamas people and the Democrat people. Then they can go south to Brazil where that great thing called socialism exists and where everyone is equal.


116 posted on 10/20/2018 5:20:23 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Rusty0604

Soros/Hellary are feeding them and giving them diapers. I want to see the buses. Stop the buses and you stop the horde. All it’ll take is one to admit they’re being paid to move north. A mob like this doesn’t just form on it’s own. They must be being paid. Get into the US and a bag of money is waiting.

The big question is what if that money isn’t waiting? What happens then? An all out war?


117 posted on 10/20/2018 5:20:41 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Snickering Hound


118 posted on 10/20/2018 5:23:49 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: Republican Wildcat

It’ll be Trump’s fault when they’re met by sleazy lawyers who get them in. The demonrats will say it’s Trump’s fault and he failed on his promise to secure the border. All the while it’s the demonrats who are busing them here and promising them a bag of gold at the finish line.


119 posted on 10/20/2018 5:25:05 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

To be sure, Soros has a taco truck parked beside the buses they’re using between photo ops. No way they got as far as they have just walking.


120 posted on 10/20/2018 5:26:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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