Posted on 10/13/2021 6:26:47 AM PDT by Theoria
Economic woes from the Covid-19 pandemic drive more-affluent people from Brazil and Venezuela to join poor migrants seeking refuge in the U.S.
More migrants illegally entering the U.S. to apply for asylum are members of South America’s middle class who fly to the border by plane, according to authorities and aid workers.
While the majority of people who come to the U.S. through Mexico are among the world’s poorest fleeing poverty and crime, such as the thousands of Haitians who recently formed a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas, the growth in middle-class migrants reflects continued hardship in nations such as Brazil and Venezuela from the Covid-19 pandemic and associated economic downturns, as well as political instability.
The U.S. government doesn’t keep track of how migrants arrive at the border or their financial status. But Chris T. Clem, the U.S. Border Patrol’s chief patrol agent in Yuma, said agents intercept people who say they recently flew to a Mexican border city nearly every day.
“They got off the plane and went to a cab or to a bus,” Mr. Clem said of the final leg of the trip to the border near Yuma for these more-affluent migrants. “They literally were driven up and just walked up and turned themselves over to us.”
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I feel so violated. I feel so raped.
THIS is why BOTH parties cheated Trump out.
Getting the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) back on track.
Thinkin’ about flying south and coming back in myself. :-(
The Biden Administration is proving that waiting in line for a proper immigration is for chumps.
Which they're bringing here to towns across the U.S., especially in Red States, to displace Americans and vote for the Communism they left behind in the old country.
I have a friend in Singapore who has been trying to immigrate legally for 5 years and is close to having everything complete. I really don’t see the point of waiting any longer.
I told her to fly to Mexico City and I would meet her and we would come across what used to be our southern border together. “What difference at this point does it make?”
Of course, since I’m a white heterosexual gringo, we’ll get caught and made an example of.
Despite this, and incredibly, the very expensive and high-tech Border Wall, which has been 100% successful in areas where it was completed, is being lifted from installation points and moved to storage dumps where it will begin the process of rotting and rusting away. Putting it in place would have been far less expensive, and the Wall would have been quickly completed—there was very little left to do. Billions of dollars are being paid to contractors to NOT build the Wall, specifically, $6 million per day.
--- President Donald Trump
My wife immigrated legally from Taiwan. It is not hard if you are honest and sincere. But the Venezuelan way is a lot faster and cheaper. Eventually they will get a low bar amnesty and become citizens with little effort.
Trump Approves Deportation Protections for Venezuelans in U.S. Illegally
Red states love the cheap and available workers. That has always been the theme. The jihadist who push immigration and migration have already tipped the scales, there is no going back or recovery.
I can’t even afford to fly.
It’s all about getting voted and to keep the system rigged period.
They can’t be illegal’s because we don’t have a border any more.
Remember - before 1965 - all the tens of thousands of WHITE Immigrants that were allowed to flood into the US ILLEGALLY????!!!! And given tons of free shit from the government at the expense of the poor????
Yeah, ME EITHER!!!!
WHAT White Privilege????!!!!!
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