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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: blu

If they have no diapers, the parents would have poo running down their fronts. Have we seen anyone caked in poo? No.


121 posted on 10/20/2018 5:28:10 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Snickering Hound
Yeah, notice how there aren't any skinny, starving ones, most of them have on T-Shirts with logos or pictures, and a lot of them have pretty nice luggage and backpacks. One guy in the upper left corner appears to have some pretty sophisticated electronics (video camera / cell phone?).

And, of the approximately 50 people in the picture, there are only about 6 recognizably female faces.

122 posted on 10/20/2018 5:28:14 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Break it off in 'em, Brett. They've earned it, and you've earned it.)
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To: Iron Munro

I guess that besides providing food, water, diapers, and portable toilets, Soros is seeing that their laundry is taken care of. After this many days on the trek their clothes should be filthy, but they look pretty spiffy to me. For people abused by their government, they should be in tatters. The guy in the back on the left is taking a selfie with a camera better than mine. Haircuts are neat and tidy.


123 posted on 10/20/2018 5:28:18 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Republican Wildcat

thousand suddenly thought they needed to move to another country. They then all bumped into each other.

Give me a f-in break. This is Soros and why is that POS still not being arrested?


124 posted on 10/20/2018 5:29:00 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Rusty0604

Texas BP said earlier they process 650 every day. That’s 19,500 a month. An entire city every month who can figure out how to vote demonrat and live of the US taxpayers.


125 posted on 10/20/2018 5:32:07 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Rusty0604
"As many as there are in this caravan, cross over every 4 days. In just one sector in south Texas, an average of 640 cross every day."
Fox had a BP official on this AM quoting that figure.

My HP 12C said 640x365 = 233,600

One small area. I even checked on my phone calculator.

2 million+ in 10 years and we are always told there's 10-12 million illegals in the US? I figure 30 million minimum.

Give them citizenship and the GOP is done.

126 posted on 10/20/2018 5:32:11 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Theoria

A Texas BP guy said on FOX this morning they process 650 EVERY DAY.


127 posted on 10/20/2018 5:33:10 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Snickering Hound

I see one of the invaders id holding up a Guatemala flag. Don’t they hate that country?


128 posted on 10/20/2018 5:33:34 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Are there no Taco Bells?


129 posted on 10/20/2018 5:34:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
If Trump doesn’t stop this invasion...I’m done with him.

... and your (our) alternative is?

130 posted on 10/20/2018 5:36:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: NativeSon
Grimace there has not walked farther than the parking to the counter at her local McDonalds in over 15 years.

That Porkulus is 150 pounds overweight.

To lose 1 pound of whale blubber she needs to burn 3,500 calories.

Walking burns up 100 calories per mile.

She needs to walk 35 miles to burn off 1 pound of that blubber.

So she would have to walk 5,250 miles to lose the 150 pounds of flab and blubber.

Even further to burn off whatever food she eats on the way.


131 posted on 10/20/2018 5:39:25 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: firebrand

The US is overpopulated. 20 years ago, I would pass maybe 4 cars in 16 miles. Today, it’s bumper to bumper.

There was a news clip of Travis Elem. School in Austin, TX of students learning about the flooding. There were 3 white kids and the rest were Mexican. All with accents including the two teachers.

Ten years ago, our then high schoolers would go back to the middle school and were shocked at how many Mexicans there were. It was totally changed in a couple years from when they were at school there. It’s no wonder our school taxes are so very, very high.


132 posted on 10/20/2018 5:41:46 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Snickering Hound
Here is what I see.

A well funded choreographed invasion force.

"ok, everybody open mouths to show your hungry and hand over heart to envoke sympathy"


133 posted on 10/20/2018 5:42:12 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Pistolero handing out cash has pistol tucked into waistband:


134 posted on 10/20/2018 5:42:28 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: DocRock
No taco bowl for you!!


135 posted on 10/20/2018 5:43:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: firebrand

Why is the white race not growing?

environmental causes... cultural issues... hormone issues ?


136 posted on 10/20/2018 5:44:29 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: familyop

Those stars are now great grandparents.


137 posted on 10/20/2018 5:44:55 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: stilloftyhenight

Texas lost a bridge this week...


138 posted on 10/20/2018 5:47:08 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
If Trump doesn’t stop this invasion...I’m done with him.

So, you're falling for the Soros/Clinton game.

139 posted on 10/20/2018 5:48:06 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: aces

Before we allow in even one legal immigrant, we need to clear out every single last illegal along with their anchor babies no matter how old.


140 posted on 10/20/2018 5:50:40 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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