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Migrant Caravans Head to US Border
Newsmax ^ | Wednesday, 09 December 2020 06:32 AM

Posted on 12/09/2020 2:26:24 PM PST by BradtotheBone

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: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: caravans; didyousearch; guatemalaredjesuita; illegals
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Well, who didn't see this coming...
1 posted on 12/09/2020 2:26:24 PM PST by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

We’re closed! Come back later!


2 posted on 12/09/2020 2:28:04 PM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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"Sorry folks, U.S. Government's closed. Moose out front should have told ya."
3 posted on 12/09/2020 2:30:30 PM PST 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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"Sorry folks, U.S. Government's closed. Moose out front should have told ya."
4 posted on 12/09/2020 2:30:30 PM PST 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: BradtotheBone

Organized by the Jesuits the religious order of Pope Francis.


5 posted on 12/09/2020 2:32:22 PM PST by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: BradtotheBone

landmines


6 posted on 12/09/2020 2:33:03 PM PST by max americana (fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry )
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To: BradtotheBone

With signs saying “Amamos mucho Joe Biden.” (We love Joe Biden so much.)?


7 posted on 12/09/2020 2:33:05 PM PST by House Atreides
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That’s Cho Biden


8 posted on 12/09/2020 2:34:13 PM PST by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: BradtotheBone

Are THEY wearing masks?


9 posted on 12/09/2020 2:34:45 PM PST by madison10
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To: BradtotheBone

They are Biden migrants....bidrants.


10 posted on 12/09/2020 2:36:31 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: BradtotheBone

Actually those are foreign fighters from South America trained by our enemies. There’s also UN troops to help “keep the peace” and a strange number of Mexican police at the border, to stop crossers, although crossers continue to make crossings and be sent back. Yesssssireeeee LOTS Of people who don’t belong there at the border. MANY of them miliatry aged young men. Nothing to see here...........


11 posted on 12/09/2020 2:37:20 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

If I wrote we should shoot them all, let the bodies pile up and rot in the sun, would I get banned?

If you phrase it as a question, is it a statement?


12 posted on 12/09/2020 2:37:47 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: BradtotheBone

It is very telling that they don’t seek to become refugees in Mexico where they speak the local language.


13 posted on 12/09/2020 2:38:05 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: madison10

Under a Biden administration illegal aliens will not be required to get tested, social distance or wear a mask because, you know...racism or something


14 posted on 12/09/2020 2:38:37 PM PST by spudville
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To: madison10

Covid increasing on our side of the Mexican border. Why is that?


15 posted on 12/09/2020 2:38:51 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Macoozie

I’ll take Cowboys and Aliens for $1000, Alex. LOL


16 posted on 12/09/2020 2:39:11 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: madison10
It doesn't look like it. I don't see a single mask and indeed, no social distancing.


17 posted on 12/09/2020 2:39:32 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: spudville

>>Under a Biden administration illegal aliens will not be required to get tested, social distance or wear a mask because, you know...racism or something

One university has already waved the “covid vaccine requirment” for minorities.


18 posted on 12/09/2020 2:39:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: BradtotheBone

Bad try ! TRUMP 2020 .....Bidet cheated and lost


19 posted on 12/09/2020 2:40:00 PM PST by Ulysse
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To: Brown Deer

Ha! Make THEM take the shots if they sneak in.


20 posted on 12/09/2020 2:43:42 PM PST by madison10
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