Posted on 09/06/2019 1:09:48 AM PDT by McGruff
Mexico says it has complied with a 90-day deadline from the U.S. to reduce the flow of migrants through its territory, but activists say Mexico’s crackdown has only forced migrants into greater desperation and more illicit, dangerous routes.
Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard is to give a final report on Mexican government efforts Friday, three months after threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on Mexico unless it cracked down on hundreds of thousands of mainly Central American migrants arriving at the U.S. border.
The figures appear to bear out Mexico’s position. The number of migrants detained at the U.S. border has fallen from 133,000 in May to 95,000 in June and 72,000 in July. Mexico has reinforced security on its porous southern border and set up checkpoints on highways leading north, deploying 21,600 police and troops across the nation.
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...Mexico has raided freight trains that migrants ride north, and pulled thousands of migrants off buses and out of the freight compartments of trucks. It was warned bus and taxi drivers they could lose their permits if they transport migrants. ...
Now that wasn’t so hard, was it.
“but activists say Mexico’s crackdown has only forced migrants into greater desperation and more illicit, dangerous routes”
Perhaps if it gets dangerous enough they will stop trying to come.
Give them the home addresses, bank account numbers, social security numbers, birth dates, etc. of AP writers and editors.
I’ll bet they learn how to say “illegal aliens” real fast.
Insanity !
There is NO international Human Right to enter the United States !
Now if we can just get the 30 million who are here to leave.
“We are in a jail without walls,” said Bento, who has spent four months travelling though South and Central America in a bid to reach the United States. “This is a policy of lies. We are considered as animals.”
I wonder, what does this invader expect once he gets into the US? From my observations, it seems he would end up living in a squalid shantytown in conditions much like those he left.
If he has enough initiative to go trekking through thousands of miles to the US, he has enough initiative to try to improve the quality of life in his home country. And that’s what every would-be illegal should do.
Thats what a secure border is. Such a great dream.
I am honestly surprised there is anyone left in those countries. Record numbers of crossings monthly for 3 plus years.
Did I miss the part where it is 1940 and we cannot count the actual numbers of crossers?
Our government is not doing its job.
Good for you Mom.
Say it loud and clear. Everything you say makes such good sense. Just like a Mom.
“Now if we can just get the 30 million who are here to leave.”
Take a few trillion from the green new deal and pay illegals to go back to their home countries. Trump can suggest that a 3% annual tax on people earning more than one million dollars a year fund it. The left will go nuts and once again Trump will take to twitter to show the hypocrisy of the left.
“From my observations, it seems he would end up living in a squalid shantytown in conditions much like those he left.”
I have a community of illegals living about 50 miles from me and I have been in a few of the houses. (I had a green card holder working for me and I went over and helped fix his roof.) The illegals have electric power that practically never fails, room air conditioners, refrigerators, cars, and, probably, welfare. Their kids get picked up by school busses and bused to school where they get a free anti-American education and free food. When they get sick the hospital has to treat them for free and if they’re illegal the hospital can’t even ask their name. And, their kids who grow up here have all the benefits of citizenship including the ability to get jobs. So, no, it’s much better than the sh*thole they came from.
The reason they are here is mostly welfare, free education and free medical. Even if we stop all of that, they will still get cr*p jobs and stay. It’s that much better here than at “home.” (My green card holder has stories about the army showing up and summarily shooting a few villagers. Then, the rebels would come down and shoot a few more. That was in Nicaragua.)
Some of them may be living in better conditions like that, but there are others living just as I described.
I took a train trip from DC to CA a couple of years ago. From the train window, I saw illegals living in tents in the Bay Area, just a stone throw from middle class neighborhoods.
I searched “illegal aliens encampment” on duck, and found plenty of pictures. There are tent cities that the government has set up, which are much nicer than those the illegals make for themselves.
In order for illegal aliens to live in a fixed structure, the property owner must be willing to let them live there. Then, what frequently happens is that they pack a lot of people into the house or apartment, such that they are still living in squalor.
I contend that they do not need to invade the US; they can live in squalor at home, where they are not living within eyesight of people who live a lifestyle that is forever beyond their reach (which only breeds envy).
In the 1990s, Californians overwhelming voted for a proposition to keep illegal alien children from attending public schools. Corrupt politicians immediately found crooked judges to block it. The solution to illegal invasion is multifaceted, and I think most people recognize that.
Another aspect of the illegal invasion is that those who are unhappiest in their home countries tend to be the ones who make the effort to invade first world countries. They are the ones who, if forced to remain in their home countries, put the most pressure on their corrupt governments. If the rationale for allowing illegal aliens to stay is that they get a better life, the rationale is misplaced: by creating problems for their home government, they are more likely to effect changes that improve all of their compatriots’ lives.
“by creating problems for their home government, they are more likely to effect changes that improve all of their compatriots’ lives. “
You are, of course, correct. But, if I were in their position faced with either moving to (relative) paradise or possibly getting killed, or starving, in a revolution, I know which I’d choose. I regularly thank God I was born to awesome parents in the greatest country with the best opportunities in the world.
Let’s see what the numbers are in October when it isn’t 110 degrees.
We need a wall. Mexico needs a wall. NOW!
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