Posted on 10/20/2018 12:46:36 AM PDT by SkyPilot
TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - Hundreds of Central American migrants bedded down overnight on a bridge separating Guatemala and Mexico, many squeezed against a metal border gate, as efforts to halt a trek north by a caravan of thousands of people gathered pace under U.S. pressure.
U.S. President Donald Trump has warned the Central American caravan must be stopped before it reaches the United States, and Honduras and Guatemala said late on Friday they were mobilizing to return Honduran migrants to their homeland.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of migrants at the head of the caravan had poured through Guatemalan border posts and onto the bridge, but were repelled by dozens of shield-bearing Mexican police. Several complained they had been teargassed.
Drained from days of walking and frustrated, many prepared to spend the night in the open. Some stretched towels and garbage bags along the bridge walls, others lay down on backpacks, while a man applied lotion to his tired feet.
Mexico’s government, which says it will process migrants’ claims for asylum individually, vowed to tackle the caravan as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met top officials in Mexico City. Pompeo urged Mexico to ensure the procession did not reach the United States.
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It’s incredible that we cannot decide who to let into our own country. It’s like if you had to allow anyone who knocks on your door to come in and live in your house; and you would be required to feed them, educate their kids, pay their medical expenses, etc.
And look who’s sitting behind Bobo — Blubberbutt Ben.
Then ask Mexico if they want the same to happen to them.
Uh, that's exactly what's going on, for half a century; and the only reason the Great Unwashed don't "come in and live in your house" is that the Democrats deepsearched that action would be the CW2 trigger (in which they would lose -- everything), so the Democrats created HUD and Section 8.
BTW.....Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina later faced criminal charges for corruption......
seems he was helping himself to the pile of foreign aid.
They don’t have enough poo and homeless in California, so they need to import more?
Why do we have A-10s and AH-64 Apaches if we aren’t going to use them to defend our borders? Isn’t it a waste of money to leave them sitting out on the ramps while we have xenomobs attacking our country?
We don't fund them very much but it would hurt them some. Stopping or taxing those remittances would kill their country.
One MOAB and the problem disappears.
It just breaks my heart they are ‘frustrated’ but what did they expect? That those who live in a private home would fling open their doors and kitchens to the masses? And the Messicans might want to monitor that bridge - bridges have weight limits. And a lot of those ‘economic migrants’ seem to be very well-fed.
C4, lots of C4.
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/emigrate-immigrate-migrate/
And when shields are no longer effective...
ah, a new human trafficking for-profit non-profit pops it's little gopher head up. Because Eunice wants to be famous on FB. Thank you, Eunice. Knock-knock. Who's there? FBI
They are NOT vermin; but folks that want a better life for themselves and kids.
They are just going about it all wrong.
There is a BIG difference between wooing the girl of your dreams until she says, “Yes!” and dragging her off; kicking and screaming; caveman style.
indeed!
“...lotion to his tired feet...
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Phoeeey. We need project veritas down there with cameras to show the real story: almost certainly the men are getting drunk and high while they wait.
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And; it is a COVERED bridge; too.
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