Posted on 09/04/2021 6:32:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When Joe Biden was running for president, he promised to close a squalid border tent camp in Mexico where thousands of migrants had been left to await the outcome of their immigration cases by the Trump administration.
Last spring, Biden emptied the camp, allowing most of the migrants to claim asylum and enter the U.S. even as his administration continued enforcing a Trump pandemic policy that effectively barred most other asylum seekers.
Soon after the Matamoros camp was bulldozed last March, a new camp formed about 55 miles west across from the border bridge to the more dangerous, Gulf crime cartel stronghold of Reynosa.
“We all thought this would get better when Biden got the presidency,” said Brendon Tucker, who works at the camp.
Instead, he said, Biden’s pandemic ban on asylum claims, “is creating worse conditions in Mexico.”
There’s less potable water, fewer bathrooms, showers and other sanitation that U.S.-based nonprofits spent months installing in Matamoros. Mexican soldiers circle in trucks with guns mounted on top. Migrants face not only cartel extortion and kidnapping, but also COVID-19 outbreaks and pressure to leave from Mexican authorities.
As in Matamoros and other border cities in the surrounding Tamaulipas state, it’s not city officials or even migrants who ultimately control the plaza — it’s the cartel. Migrants who enter or leave the city without paying a smuggler risk getting kidnapped and held for ransom. So do those who leave the camp, even for a few hours to shop or look for work.
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While the Afcrapistan situation is a treasonous act by Braindead, the border invasion is worse by far. Republicucks. Are you listening?
Sigh. Apparently, this is news to the Los Angeles Times.
Its “The Great Reset” kiddies.
In any given situation Biden will take the course of action that is the most destructive to America’s interests, because hurting America is in China’s interests. In that context, everything he does makes perfect sense.
With few exceptions the Republicans are in on it
Cartel has totally controlled Mexico for over 20 years.
Some of the build back better going on. /s
They don’t need no stinkin’ border camps. Thousands cross the border daily willy nilly. There’s even a guy who will paddle them across the river for $5. Heck, hop in the back of a Mexican Army vehicle at the Donna Bridge since they drive across just for grins and giggles.
I admit to chuckling when it said they faced pressure from Mexico to leave.
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