Posted on 10/22/2018 8:38:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump announced Monday morning he is starting the process to cut or reduce aid to Central American countries that haven't stopped a caravan of illegal aliens. Over the past few days, the caravan has grown from 4,000 people to 7,000.
Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018
Over the weekend, President Trump again threatened to seal off the border if Central American countries or Mexico couldn't control the flow north.
"I would call in the military and I would seal off the border. I would close up the border. If that happens, and if that continues to move forward, the caravan we’re talking about," Trump said. "I think some bad people started that caravan.. you have some very, very bad people in the caravan. But I will seal off the border before they come into this country."
In Mexico, authorities have failed to stop the massive caravan. Stretching one mile long, it has broken through borders, police lines and barricades. When the cameras are off, caravan members ditch the walking to grab rides on train and trucks.
During an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Friday, Mexican Ambassador Geronimo Gutierrez again argued Mexican immigration policy does not encourage illegal behavior and should be orderly.
President Trump is headed to Texas Monday afternoon and will campaign for Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in Houston. There's no doubt the caravan will be a heavy topic during his remarks.
Re: “#2: “More talk” and no action.”
Why do you think there would be no action?
Trump threatened China and carried through, threatened north Korea and carried through with sanctions.
Threatened to back out of agreements if they were not changed in our favor and carried through.
your are missing the last part:
“Missy? Missy? Missy are you listening to me?
WHACK! I told you so.. now go to your room with no cake”
Imagine the chorus of crying children and the international blame that Trump will get.
Best solution is load them onto trucks and dump them by the thousands in all the sanctuary cities. Minneapolis wants to be a sanctuary city, dump off 4 or 5 thousand in front of the billion dollar US Bank Vikings Stadium before a home game and let the City of Minneapolis and their smug liberals sort them out, feed them etc. Dump off at least 10,000 in the most posh neighborhoods of Hollywood. I would love to see the reaction of the movie stars when hundreds of these invaders are swimming and defecating in their pools, camped on their lawns and invading their kitchens.
“More talk”
“We shall see”, Says the Zen master.
POTUS should warn Americans in Mexico to get out now, before the border is closed — immediate impact on MX. And from the moment of that announcement, all tourism via the border will stop — another immediate impact.
Use tear gas and fire hoses on them. Put some kinda crap in the fire hose water that makes it stink. Make these invaders stink and smell like pig shit or close to it. Make sure they stay bottled up in Mexico. Make them camp out there on the Mexican side. We can even send them food (maybe) and soccer balls to play with.
After few weeks or months buy them off with 500-1000 dollars and a free bus ticket home. Telling them they can apply for legal immigration at the US Embassies in Honduras and Guatemala or whatever shithole X where they were born.
BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW THEM TO GET ONTO US SOIL. This when the communist advocate lawyers sink in their hooks and find ways to stall deportation for years and decades.
POTUS should warn Americans in Mexico to get out now, before the border is closed — immediate impact on MX. And from the moment of that announcement, all tourism via the border will stop — another immediate impact.
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Yes.
“Seeing” is “Believing”...
The only solution is getting our military on the border. This mob is too large for the normal Border Patrol to keep out of the US.
Time to remove the spontaneous financing from this invading Army of useful idiots. INTEL knows origins, conduits and methods. Pro-active surgical interdiction is called for.
That is if they are walking.
But they were bused in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, they were also paid to participate.
I am sure ‘humanitarian organizations’ will promptly provide luxurious buses for them to arrive on time.
Declare war on Mexico Now ! It is time. Nothing but utter chaos and destruction is now in Mexico’s future. Volcanoes, earthquakes and hurricanes. Oh my. We need absolute control of our southern border. Nothing else matters.
As much as I love President Trump, sometimes he gets played by those advising him. The only reason I have to doubt that the appropriate action will be taken is because the springtime "caravan" pulled this same stunt and EVERY ONE WAS allowed to cross the border into the USA. Most of the invaders were allowed to stay and were quickly and UNTRACKABLY dispersed around the country.
Technically President Trump stopped the springtime invasion if you consider an "invasion" as a mob of rabble pushing across the border en masse. However through some deft the verbal gamesmanship the invasion was "stopped" because the mob was divided into small groups by authorities and then brought across the border in small groups of two or three, staggered over a week or so.
Yes we were invaded last spring. No, President Trump did not really stop the invasion. He merely stopped a riotous mob from pushing across the frontier. But everyone was allowed in and for the most part they are here FOREVER!
ahh skin affect
Now Mr President you know this will also cause another rush for the border, please deploy military on the border and squash all violent protest, circle san diego and remove all illegals, announce the intent to do so everywhere, if they leave voluntarily now no charges, if not tent city prison in arizona building the wall for 2 years then deported..fund the caravan south
President Trump needs to go to the border wherever they try to cross and stand right in their path. I’m assuming that wherever he goes, a small army of armed men go with him. Not to mention, the Army and all of the alphabet soup of law enforcement agencies would be on hand to repulse them. It would make a great photo op.
Back when we could actually listen to her (at least her music).
Boy was that a long time ago.
I will answer this one.
Teargas, rubber bullets, shock grenades are deployed as the first line of defense. The second line is real bullets, back up by tanks and RPGs.
We need to stop messing around and playing games. This is an invasion, plain and simple. If this is allowed, then we have totally lost control of our border and the Democrats have won.
Are the Dems going to try to use this against Trump and the GOP? That is exactly what this is all about. The illegal immigration issue is the only and I do mean the only issue that the Dems have been able to get any traction. So they are pouring a lot of money and have given the marching orders to the MSM to give 24/7 coverage of these poor suffering people. Yawn.
If these people were truly attempting to flee the issues of their country, then why are they coming all the way to the U.S., why not stop in El Salvador, Mexico, etc.
Most of my demolitions knowledge comes from Hogan’s Heroes but seems like if you drop a section of the bridge ahead of them, the “caravan” would stop. Then, I imagine we’d spend a boatload of money to rebuild it (still less than we will dealing with the horde when they get here) and the locals are happy with the dollars and jobs flowing in as a result.
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