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Central American Towns Empty As Migrants Rush To U.S. Border Loopholes
Breitbart ^ | 5-21-2019 | Neil Munro

Posted on 05/21/2019 11:35:12 AM PDT by blam

Guatemala’s towns are emptying out as a growing number of migrants head north to accept the Democratic Party’s offer of open-border loopholes and low-wage jobs, say a growing number of local reports.

Roughly one percent of Guatemala’s population has migrated to the United States’ border since September 2018, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That adds up to roughly 170,000 migrants, and roughly one-third of those migrants come from the neighboring rural districts of Huehuetenango and San Marcos.

The result of this U.S. government policies is that many villages are with empty homes, fatherless families, absent men, and minimal investment. The Wall Street Journal reported:

COLOTENANGO, Guatemala—Gloria Velásquez is used to saying goodbye. Four of her six siblings have migrated to the U.S. and she, too, is thinking about heading north with her 9-year-old daughter.

Ms. Velásquez said her four siblings in the U.S. are encouraging her to join them. Her daughter Helen Ixchel likes to teach language and mathematics to fellow children. She wants to learn English and become a teacher.

“I’m a bit scared [about going to the U.S.] after hearing all the news about the suffering of migrants at the border. But it’s my daughter’s greatest dream,” Ms. Velásquez said.

This massive loss of young people minimizes opposition to the country’s weak government and deters foreign investment in the nation. Without the promise of foreign investment and new jobs in the nation’s main cities, the next cohort of young men rationally look north for jobs.

“Santa Rosa fits the DHS statistics perfectly,” says a May 17 report from Sara Carter.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alieninvasion; aliens; border; bordercrisis; braking; colonizingtheus; foreigninvasion; guatemala; illegalaliens; illegalsinvasion; immigrants; invasion; sidebarabuse; trump
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To: Colo9250

Dry up ‘illary !


81 posted on 05/21/2019 4:19:02 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: blam

These people are being ‘bused’ in. WHO is financing this? (rhetorical?) Why hasn’t someone investigated the money involved in this and CUT IT OFF? Freeze assets of those financing this bullsh*t...


82 posted on 05/21/2019 4:32:13 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: grania

You know, THAT is what I’ve been saying. Before it was Mexico but since they are letting this over their southern border we can start there.
Tell them for every 500 people that come to our border, we are taking 500-5,000 miles of your country over. DONE!
Pretty soon, after wiping out the cartels, we would have lots of room, cheap places to put factories etc.


83 posted on 05/21/2019 4:55:09 PM PDT by alexandria (Amnesty - Because re-electing democrats is a job Americans just won't do.)
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To: dfwgator

It would be great to ship all asking for asylum to Puerto Rico to wait for their hearing. That way they are much easier to find. Also, didn’t they need help cleaning up?


84 posted on 05/21/2019 5:00:46 PM PDT by alexandria (Amnesty - Because re-electing democrats is a job Americans just won't do.)
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To: blam

That’s an invading force.


85 posted on 05/21/2019 5:22:34 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Red Badger

Buy real estate there?

No, they make it illegal for Americans to buy “their land”


86 posted on 05/21/2019 5:25:43 PM PDT by Professional
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To: LouAvul

“No! Wait! We elected a president a couple years ago that promised us he was going to fix this!”

Educate yourself! There are existing laws that say the USA MUST accept people asking for asylum! Only Congress can change or make laws. A president cannot!

I cannot believe people like you don’t know this! Google it!!


87 posted on 05/21/2019 6:26:29 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: toldyou
You're wrong. If they make it onto US soil they want to get arrested, then they utter the magic word, asylum.

But the president has the power to prevent them from making it onto US soil. Read the law. It's law passed by Congress giving the POTUS the authority to unilaterally forbid immigrants/invaders entry into America. If they can't make it onto US soil, they can't utter the magic word!

Google it.

8 U.S.C. s 1152(a)(1)

From the above: "Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

Congress gave the President the power to forbid entry into the USA of any immigrant according to the above law.

He also has the power to order troops to the border, as he has done. He has ordered troops to the border, but only in a impotent capacity. If he can order ten soldiers, he can order 10,000 soldiers. If he can order 10,000 soldiers, he can order them to be armed and have some teeth. If he can order them armed, he can order air support to protect the border. He has the power as Commander In Chief and the authority granted by Congress to do just that. But he has to do it.

The federal hacks have countermanded some things, but they cannot stop him from performing the above.

I cannot believe people like you don't know this! Google it!

88 posted on 05/21/2019 7:00:22 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Jim Robinson

Even Breitbart is calling them migrants. They’re not! They’re a hostile invasion force.


89 posted on 05/21/2019 7:30:59 PM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: blam

No problem we can build more hospitals, prisons, and schools while bankrupting ourselves so our white-trash politicians can think of themselves as ‘compassionate’...


90 posted on 05/21/2019 8:45:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (The Clinton Effect created the tackiest white-trash 'elites' the world has ever seen-squatting in DC)
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To: PGR88

Very sad. Poor kids. When society allowed ‘gay parenting’ they opened the door to a horror house.

No one is allowed to say this, but it is true.


91 posted on 05/21/2019 8:48:11 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: blam

Great time to buy up Guatemalan land for cheap and build condos. The Trump Organization should form a partnership with Putin and get right on it./s


92 posted on 05/21/2019 10:35:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: dfwgator

[ Because he’s not a dictator. ]

Yeah, that and all the obstruction from the Swamp Democrats.


93 posted on 05/21/2019 10:59:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

My thoughts exactly. Get a business license down there and buy up everything. Turn the whole place into one giant resort. Turn into an ExPat haven.


94 posted on 05/22/2019 2:45:40 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: COBOL2Java; LouAvul

COBOLJava .... 100% correct

LouAvul .... 100% wrong


95 posted on 05/22/2019 2:48:04 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: umgud

First, they called me a “WASP”.
Then they called me an “Anglo”.
Now, I’m just “White”.
What next? :(


96 posted on 05/22/2019 3:23:09 AM PDT by Does so (A mysterious nuclear explosion would have the fingerprints of Uranium One!)
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To: montag813; EEGator

The US packs big yellow boxes with such shirts, and ships the contents to s-hole places like Guatamala.


97 posted on 05/22/2019 3:31:27 AM PDT by Does so (A mysterious nuclear explosion would have the fingerprints of Uranium One!)
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To: qaz123
No, you're wrong.

Google the following:

8 U.S.C. s 1152(a)(1)

"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

Congress gave the President the power to forbid entry into the USA of any immigrant according to the above law. Low level federal hacks have countermanded what happens once crimigrants make it onto US soil. POTUS has the authority, and the power, to prevent them from making it onto US soil.

Research the above law. You don't know what you're talking about.

98 posted on 05/22/2019 4:12:38 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: eartick; qaz123; LouAvul
But, but it was (is) a national emergency......oh wait!!!!!

How stupid can you be?

I guess some people are invincibly ignorant. Such are the drunken barflies on FR.

99 posted on 05/22/2019 4:32:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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To: COBOL2Java
Blowing your trumpette again.

Read my tag, you fit into this category.

100 posted on 05/22/2019 4:48:58 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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