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Migrant Caravans Head To US Border
Newsmax ^ | 12-9-2020

Posted on 12/09/2020 7:27:32 AM PST by blam

Two ruinous hurricanes that wrecked and flooded swathes of Central America last month have increased the number of families planning a risky journey northward. And after a year of travel bans and soaring unemployment, demand to reach the U.S. was already high.

“There are going to be caravans, and in the coming weeks it will increase,” said Jose Luis Gonzalez, coordinator of the Guatemala Red Jesuita con Migrantes, a non-governmental organization. “People are no longer scared of the coronavirus. They’re going hungry, they’ve lost everything, and some towns are still flooded.”

Joe Biden has pledged to abolish many of the migration policies of Donald Trump, including prolonged detention and separation of families, which were designed to deter illegal migration. This encourages more impoverished Central Americans to make the trip and test the Biden administration, said Gonzalez.

“When there is a change in government in the U.S. or Mexico, caravans start to move because they are testing the waters to see how authorities respond,” he said. “What they see is that the one who said he was going to build a wall and hated Latinos is on his way out.”

Newsmax has not called the election for Biden, citing the numerous legal complaints mounted by the Trump campaign.

On social media, announcements are circulating for caravans, groups of migrants traveling together, leaving San Pedro Sula, Honduras’s second-largest city, which was hit by both storms. The first caravan is scheduled to leave in the coming days and the second in mid-January.

Biden’s advisers are hoping to shift away from Trump’s policies if they take office without signaling that the border has been flung open, according to people familiar with the planning. They know that swift, sweeping changes will spur more people to attempt the journey to the U.S.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; immigrants; migrants

1 posted on 12/09/2020 7:27:32 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

Shocking... not.

The flow of illegals is going to be staggering. It’s going to be fun telling my neighbors why they can’t find one of those $15/hr jobs.


2 posted on 12/09/2020 7:29:01 AM PST by brownsfan (Schools. If we don't fix the schools, nothing else matters.)
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To: blam

Kill them all.


3 posted on 12/09/2020 7:29:26 AM PST by EnglishOnly (eeWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: blam

"Viva El Presidente Biden! He will help us!"


4 posted on 12/09/2020 7:31:31 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden: Barack Obama minus the pretty talk.)
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To: Pining_4_TX; zeestephen
‘Biden effect’ could draw 140,000 migrants a month across border

Coronavirus Patients from Mexico Crossing Border and Straining U.S. Hospitals

5 posted on 12/09/2020 7:31:37 AM PST by blam
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To: blam

Guatemala and Mexico have gotten good at stopping caravans.

The only way for them to get through as a group, is for a US Administration to tell Guatemala and Mexico to let them through.

If we see them resume during a (God forbid) Biden Administration, it will be evidence of a change in US policy (which they will probably deny, and blame Global Warming, hurricanes and racism instead).


6 posted on 12/09/2020 7:54:51 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: blam

You won’t hear a peep about that from the media, Democrats, or the Fauci brigade.


7 posted on 12/09/2020 7:57:09 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (I'm old enough to remember when you actually had to be able to do something to be hired to do it.)
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To: blam

Invaders.

Barbarian invaders.


8 posted on 12/09/2020 7:57:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: blam

Shoot them all down and leave them to rot. Think of them as a disease trying to infect us, which in effect they absolutely are.


9 posted on 12/09/2020 8:08:23 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: COBOL2Java

We meet at the fork in the road and meet up with the Chinese and head north free food on all the buses........


10 posted on 12/09/2020 8:10:33 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: EnglishOnly
Damn straight.

Lock Americans in their homes for their “own good” but let filthy parasites invade. No thanks.

Time for retribution.

11 posted on 12/09/2020 8:12:49 AM PST by NativeSon ( )
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To: blam

The Deplorables want a Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement bill, missing since 1986 ONE TIME amnesty. Since that amnesty was granted already, a second amnesty is off the table. What remains is the enforcement the Democrats have disallowed since then.

The List of Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement, missing since 1986 goes like this -
1) southern barrier;
2) require eVerify to hire;
3) end all chain migration;
4) birthright per Minor v. Happersett (plural parents);
5) end work visas;
6) 10-year moratorium on all new applications for citizenship (40 years to allow workplace automation effects on downsizing population);
7) Set up an illegal aliens’ victim restitution fund.

Enactment of these provisions will motivate illegal aliens to SELF-deport, and remove colonizadors from our welfare rolls.


12 posted on 12/09/2020 8:45:03 AM PST by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: blam

Soros again...


13 posted on 12/09/2020 8:57:10 AM PST by Crucial ( )
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To: blam

The US will become just a hole in the sea and be swamped as the Biden Administration invites in the whole world while locking up Americans.


14 posted on 12/09/2020 8:59:28 AM PST by Truth29
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To: blam

And the Rio Grande Valley swung heavily towards Trump. This is exactly why. Who wants caravans during a pandemic?


15 posted on 12/09/2020 9:28:06 AM PST by dixie1202
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To: EnglishOnly

A10s will do the job. This is an invasion.


16 posted on 12/09/2020 11:25:59 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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