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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The big one under the palm is female or a large male with severe gynecomastia. There are two other women. Seems a different mix than the photo ops. What a surprise!
How about a 50 cal machine gun? That is much more an effective deterrent.
That's because you have common sense to see what's right in front of your face......while ignoring the propaganda being put out daily by the lying media.
This is an OPEN statement to Trump, from the UN and open borders crowd, that he does not have the power to stop them and the US has no right to sovereignty against citizens of the world.
And while there are poor people, in the NUMEROUS invading caravans, who have been played for fools with this you can go to America, there is a militant section hidden in them that plan to use violence/force to make their point, just like they did when they tore down the gates in Mexico.
BTW, at the first of Nov, the UN said 9,000 invaders were were still moving on the US.....but an additional 6,000 had turned back. Did you hear ANY news organization tell you that we had 15,000+ people marching towards the US?
I sure didn't, which just proves they want to keep us blind and ignorant about what's going on.
“George Soros did this.”
Why is this evil old Secular Progressive Capo still above room temperature? Ditto for his ill-conceived offspring?
...Soldiers
Absolutely,
Tasked to undermine this
Nation and it’s Citizens!
“How about a 50 cal machine gun? That is much more an effective deterrent.”
Yes, but bad optics! Dead bodies hanging from the fence would not be a good picture to send around the world with Jim Acosta and his clan.
Pugnacious, arrogant beggars. Bastards.
Yes, they are that stupid and arrogant too. They feel they have a God given right to do what ever they want. And God help us if Trump caves on this. These bastards HATE us and if they don’t get what they feel they’re entitled to, entry into The United States the violence will escalate. And there are more of these bastards coming.
We can easily add “Acosta and his clam” to the target list.
These bastards HATE us and if they get what they feel they’re entitled to, entry into the United States, the violence will escalate even more, but it will be spread out though the United States.
You are 100% correct. If these animals were armed with guns there would have been rivers of blood a week ago.
You’re right my Friend. Actually I made a typo. I meant to say if they didn’t get what they want but in either case these are not grateful people in any sense of the word. This is a very bad sign of things to come.
Long past time for the military to be allowed to protect the country.
Start shooting them and see how fast the survivors hightail it back to “their” country. I used to get really chuffed when one of my NYC high school students would begin a sentence, “In MY country...” I’d ask them where they were sitting now. I’d ask them if they were living in the United States. And, why wasn’t that “their” country, since it was providing them their food, housing, education, and medical care. They are foul, illiterate, none-too-bright pathogen carrying burdens, not assets to the U.S.
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It appears that if we physically prevent the invaders from entering the U.S., the Mexican civilians in Tijuana will “encourage them to go somewhere else.
Don’t provide the invaders with food or water, and the will get the hint.
Give them a whiff of grape.
No more problems tthen.
>>I’m anxious to see how this is handled.....<<
Democrats and their MSM Ministry of Propaganda have successfully indoctrinated so many American citizens that these invaders and the millions to follow them will soon turn the USA into a third-world sh*thole comparable to those in Africa and South America. Thank A Democrat if you still talk with any of them.
>>I don’t understand why it is so difficult to identify who is funding this charade<<
It’s difficult because the ‘rat Party, the MSM, Hollyweird, the education systems, the nation’s foreign enemies around the world (especially in Europe and the Middle East) are all working feverishly to destroy the American Constitutional Republic. And our great President, and all he has accomplished and will accomplish is going to be swept away.
Actually, they aren't the stupid ones. Invaders and grifters...sure. But stupid? No.
They know once they step foot in our country they are golden. Don't even need to work, get taxpayer paid for housing and food and so on. Can get fake ID's, or better yet, a valid CA drivers license that they can then use as ID in any state in the country.
No, the stupid ones are our politicians, particularly the Congress, that allow this insanity to continue.
22+ million foreign nationals living in our country unlawfully didn't happen because our country was being smart.
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