Posted on 11/16/2018 7:24:51 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Members of the Honduran migrant caravan have arrived at the border and they did not get the warm welcome they wanted.
Not only was the red carpet not rolled out for them by America, Mexicans on the other side of the border engaged in fights with the new migrants.
President Donald Trump warned them not to come and told them there would be consequences, but they did not listen.
Now they are facing the consequences of their actions at the hands of the United States Border Patrol, Fox News reported.
More than a dozen members of the migrant caravan were arrested Wednesday night along U.S.-Tijuana border, a border patrol source in the San Diego sector told Fox News.
A small group was arrested near the beach in an area called Playas de Tijuana. A large group was arrested in the mountains east of Otay Mesa, a San Diego community that straddles the Mexican border, the source said. All were arrested for trying to cross the border illegally, the source said.
Separately, a fight broke out Wednesday night in Tijuana between local Mexicans and Hondurans arriving in the caravan. The migrants complained that the locals were yelling: "Go home. We don't want you here!" Members of the caravan complained to reporters that local police made no attempt to break up the fight.
The developments come as more than 2,000 members of the caravan – which has made international headlines for the past month and added fuel to the already heated immigration debate – are expected to arrive at the border on Thursday. Hundreds of migrants began arriving at the border this week.
About two dozen migrants wrapped in blankets are camped out next to the border fence near the ocean. Others have crammed into already overcrowded shelters or are sleeping in tents.
Some migrants said they were waiting for others members of the caravan to arrive to figure out their next steps.
"We have to see what we're offered, just so they don't send us back to our country," said Jairon Sorto, a 22-year-old Honduran who arrived by bus Wednesday.
Sorto said he would consider staying in Tijuana if he could get asylum from Mexico. He said he refused to consider Mexico's offer of asylum in the southern part of the country because it was too close to Honduras and he felt unsafe from his country's gangs.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, meanwhile, visited U.S. troops posted at the border in Texas and said the deployment of military personnel ordered by President Donald Trump provides good training for war, despite criticism that the effort is a waste of taxpayer money and a political stunt. Most of the troops are in Texas, more than 1,500 miles from where the caravan is arriving.
The first wave of migrants in the caravan, which became a central theme of the recent U.S. election, began arriving in Tijuana in recent days, and their numbers have grown each day. The bulk of the main caravan appeared to still be about 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) from the border, but has recently been moving hundreds of miles a day by hitching rides on trucks and buses.
About 1,300 migrants in a second caravan were resting at a Mexico City stadium where the first group stayed several days last week. By early Wednesday, an additional 1,100 migrants from a third and last caravan also arrived at the stadium.
Like most of those in the third caravan, migrant Javier Pineda is from El Salvador, and hopes to reach the United States. Referring to the first group nearing the end of the journey, Pineda said, "if they could do it, there is no reason why we can't."
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Wasn't the original excuse is that the United States was their destination come hell or high water? They were told not to come, they were warned that they wouldn't be welcome and they came anyway.
You beat me to it...That’s what I was just gonna post....
Great Minds Think Alike! :-)
“What we’re offered”? How about a big fat NO.
As for the violence, that was totally predictable.
I thought they were all women and babies in strollers?
Are people from Hispanic countries truly this frickin’ stupid? How do they not understand there’s a process for entering America legally to visit and another process to enter to work?
Do they go around breaking into homes expecting to be welcomed and allowed to stay and be fed, housed, and get a free paycheck?
Put in perspective; these people are truly the worst dregs in any society. Trump was right; they are not sending their best. They are exactly the kind of people we DON’T want in America.
LOL...Yep...
Looks and feels like an "invasion".
By the way, I don’t see any elderly, infirm, women or children. They all look like completely healthy young men. Just the type to rape a pretty blonde woman who is actually a natural born citizen.
The "welcome" then needs to be made much hotter.
They are sending exactly the type of people our federal government and the Deep State want in America.
This is called “Long Term Population Replacement”.
“...We have to see what we’re offered...”
Why should you be offered anything??????
I think we are all on the same page. This is an invading horde. Not elderly, Etc. They just want the goodies.
awwwwwwwwww .........
Hitching rides on trucks and buses with chickens and other animals on them? I heard they were on buses paid for by someone.
I’m anxious to see how this is handled.....
It sure does look like an invasion.
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