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How the migrant caravan became so big and why it's continuing to grow
mysanantonio.com ^ | 10/23/2018 | Kevin Sieff and Joshua Partlow

Posted on 10/24/2018 7:11:07 AM PDT by rktman

Edith Cruz was sitting at home in central Honduras, scanning Facebook on her phone, when she saw the post about the caravan on a community news page.

It was Oct. 12. She and her cousin had just opened a small business selling tortillas when they were confronted by a gang, threatened with death if they didn't hand over half of their profits. She looked at the Facebook post: "An avalanche of Hondurans is preparing to leave in a caravan to the United States. Share this!" Within three hours, her bags were packed.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; invaders; invasion; trespassing; undocs
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To: aces
sadly we must be prepared to shoot,

As much as CNN is salivating over the thought, nobody is going to shoot unarmed women and children at the border. They'll be detained and deported.

41 posted on 10/24/2018 8:26:00 AM PDT by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: Drew68

I see no reason to do so, get the leaders in the pack one way or another..


42 posted on 10/24/2018 8:33:08 AM PDT by aces
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To: rktman

“Edith Cruz was sitting at home in central Honduras, scanning Facebook on her phone....”


I stopped reading right there. How freaking “oppressed” can you be if you’re sitting at home (i.e. not working or looking for work) on you (smart)phone, scanning FB (again, not working or looking for work)??????

Eff these people - everyone wants a better life, but if we let in every Edith Cruz in the world who wants to come here then you will not only extinguish a good life for most of the 325 million or so who live here, you will extinguish our ability to innovate and give charity to others IN PLACE, and thus make the entire world worse off.

This garbage must stop - either we are a country, which necessarily requires enforceable borders, or we are not. THAT is our choice as a nation. Note that EVERY other country has made their own choice to enforce their own borders. Just saying.


43 posted on 10/24/2018 8:53:49 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ek_hornbeck

“This won’t change until those amigos start telling other amigos that they’re going to be turned back at the border and sent home. “


This won’t change until those amigos start telling other amigos that they saw some other amigos in the caravan eaten by alligators in the pit on the other side of the American border fence.

There, fixed it for you.


44 posted on 10/24/2018 8:56:06 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Sasparilla

Of course there are plans to defeat an invasion.
Many years ago we practiced defending Germany annually (Reforger).
Immediate surveillance,infiltration and psyops. Interdiction of supplies. Identify leaders and cause their arrest (already happening). Determine the probable routes and prepare interdiction and control devices- ditches, barbed wire funnels. Meet at the attack points with huge numbers of armed soldiers/ICE /Border patrol/. Separate women and children from men. Tear gas and the stink spray as necessary.
Undoubtedly well under way.


45 posted on 10/24/2018 9:41:04 AM PDT by Yooper patriot
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To: rktman

I’ve been thinking about that.

I suspect that a couple of F-16 making a low level supersonic run along the border, followed by a C-130 making a flare angel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mIEIZ2x1JE), will cause the women and children to break and run to the rear.

Some water cannon loaded with skunk water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_(weapon)) will take care of the rest.

Of course, we can always just let them in and have them move through a Disneyland style line. You know, the kind that keeps winding forever and is designed to not let you see that you have another 4 or 5 huge rooms to wait in. And after you are done and get to the front you realize that the bus you are getting on is heading back to Honduras.


46 posted on 10/24/2018 9:44:57 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Sasparilla
Still trying to understand what the military can do to stop this alien invasion at the border.

We can seal the border. No Mexican truckers going north. No American tourist dollars going south. Tell Mexico we will completely collapse their economy unless they do something effective about that caravan.

Then watch the news footage of the Mexican Army machine-gunning the caravan.

47 posted on 10/24/2018 9:50:15 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: rktman

And diapers and formula and porta potties and phone charging facilities and laundry and clothing and showers.

This caravan is as organic as a pack of Winstons.


48 posted on 10/24/2018 9:54:11 AM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: rktman

Oh and lodging.


49 posted on 10/24/2018 9:54:51 AM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Califreak

Is there an estimate of how much garbage this trek will generate? Will they hang on to it and dump it at our border?


50 posted on 10/24/2018 9:57:15 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Another thing I forgot.

Someone has to pick up behind them.


51 posted on 10/24/2018 10:12:39 AM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Wonder Warthog

... How much training is needed to halt someone and put zip-ties around their wrists???...

On 7-10,000 Invaders crashing the border?


52 posted on 10/25/2018 5:45:09 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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