Posted on 02/17/2021 6:35:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
As snow and ice slam much of the southern United States, migrant communities along the U.S.-Mexico border are enduring freezing temperatures with scarce resources.
At a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas, tents made out of blue tarp have iced over as a winter blast brought freezing temperatures and icy rain to the region this week. Water used for cooking and bathing has also frozen.
Many of those living at the camp are waiting in Mexico while their asylum applications are processed in the U.S., under the Trump administration's so-called "Remain in Mexico" policy. President Joe Biden is expected to start processing and admitting migrants forced to wait in Mexico under the "Migrant Protection Protocols" this week.
One resident at the camp, a Honduran woman named Karen, told ABC News she has been at this camp for over a year now with her two sons, ages 10 and 11.
"By the grace of the lord, we are alive," she said Monday in Spanish, after the camp woke up to frozen tents.
She is worried her children will get sick because of the weather, as they experienced snow for the first time.
"Look, look. There is snow. I never believed it," she said. "People told me about snow, but I never believed it -- and now I do."
Power has been mostly out for the past two days in the city, and there is no electricity at the camp. Some volunteers donated coal so that residents could build bonfires Monday night.
On Tuesday, several migrants ABC News spoke with started crying as they recounted their experience fleeing their home country and living in the camp during the extreme weather.
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Best head back to where it is warm. Pronto.
Don’t come here, illegals, you’ll be cold... Stay home and be warm... 😀.
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Should have stayed in their own nice warm countries.....
It’s a bipartisan goal.
It is the essence of the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
The GOP has been importing a permanent Democrat majority for 30 years with the intent to use them to steal the country from the citizens.
We would not vote for their New World Order, so they imported people who would.
Enhanced population replacement, actually. We had raised a country with a history of protecting its citizens, around the world. Part of the reason is our traditions of sacrifice of lives in one generation for peace in another generation. Those lives were our ancestors, and our friends and neighbors in our lifetimes. People we went to school with. People we worked with. People who we baby sitted, or married, etc.
Hard to do that with colonizadors who care more about their countries of origin.
Sounds like a problem for Mesico. It will pass.
Remember that the function of useful idiots and Cultural Marxist alike is to bring about the end of the nation, not to simply to convert it. To the foreign power behind them it isn’t about the the people but about the land.
Recently I used a quote from The Silence of the Lambs to describe the ChiComs current intentions towards, well, most places and not just us. But especially us.
“It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
The purpose of the lotion was to help smooth loosened skin so Buffalo Bill could make a girl suit ... these people who have taken the ChiCom’s 30 pieces of silver are meant to help their masters take the land for their own people and the party.
There’s still a difference between the parties in that there are still some few elected Republicans who do not actively serve evil ... where all influential Democrats, elected or otherwise, embody that evil.
Yup, you got it. Hiya Kearny. Hows life in the old home town?. A buddy of mine who lives on Laurel Ave. says you got a lot of snow up there recently.
Hey, how’s everything? We did get a good amount, but I don’t think it was record-setting; the problem is it is taking so long to melt (the last few days helped a lot; before that, it was staying put for a week). There is just no place to put it, so we lose parking spots. It reminds me of the winters here when I was younger (which I haven’t seen in probably 20 years).
How is it down there?
Things are ok in Bricktown. We got about three or four inches, but it didn’t interfere with life in any meaningful way. Jeez, I remember the big blizzard of ‘77.
Kearny Ave was like a ski slope and the whole town was buried in snow.
Glad everything is good!
I had to take someone to get a COVID test (prior to a procedure - they had no symptoms and tested negative); it was at a new “first care” clinic in the Kmart parking lot by Bergen Ave. It was nice to see tons of kids at Bunnyland sledding; certainly brought back memories.
Not sure if the swamp has frozen (at least enough to skate/play hockey); the Gunnell Oval is closed for renovations so I guess you’d have to access it at the end of East Midland.
Long before they shoe horned in that housing development there off Schuyler Ave that used to be what we called ''Bronco Hill''. We used to go sledding down that. Talk about a rough ride! Right now it's snowing to beat the band here in Brick. I got my Covid shot last month. I work in Community Hospital in Toms River. I've tested ''positive asymptomatic'' last April. Never got so much as a sniffle. I can't take wearing this damned face diaper anymore. It's driving me nuts.
“Bronco Hill” sounds familiar; where exactly was that? Do you mean the condo development at the foot of Stewart Ave (that used to be woods) next to the cemetery)? For some reason I seem to recall kids from East Midland using that terms for the grass slope from Schuyler Avenue down to the road around the Gunnell Oval (parallel to the access road downhill).
Snowing strong here as well, but it doesn’t look like it is piling up; this is supposed to run into tomorrow.
Hope the vaccine is effective; these masks are tiresome...
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