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The rise of the middle class migration: South American families are flying to Mexico, getting a cab and crossing illegally into US, Yuma border chief claims
The Daily Mail ^ | 13 October 2021 | KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Posted on 10/13/2021 11:49:37 PM PDT by blueplum

While hundreds of thousands of poor migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. have trekked on foot from South and Central America in the last eight months, there has also been a rise in middle class migrants flooding the southern border.

These so-called middle class migrants often fly to Mexico's northern border on pre-planned flights and cross into the U.S. by cab or another car hire, a Border Patrol chief in Arizona told the Wall Street Journal.

'They got off the plane and went to a cab or to a bus,' Chris Clem, Border Patrol's chief patrol agent in Yuma, said.

'They literally were driven up and just walked up and turned themselves over to us,' he said in describing the last leg of more affluent migrants' trip over the U.S.-Mexico border....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: borderpatrol; chrisclem; gamingthesystem; illegals; invasion; noborders; richrefugees; yuma

1 posted on 10/13/2021 11:49:37 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

seems like a lot of trouble when they could just fly directly into the US by saying they are a tourist.. then just stay.


2 posted on 10/13/2021 11:50:32 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: blueplum

Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin reports on leaked document revealing over 135K migrants were released into the U.S. since August 6th.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/leaked-document-reveals-numbers-of-migrants-released-into-the-u-s/vi-AAPtmXi?ocid=msedgntp


3 posted on 10/13/2021 11:53:51 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: TexasFreeper2009

perks. no freebees for tourists.


4 posted on 10/13/2021 11:56:08 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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There’s no walking in any event. An absolutely impenetrable jungle divides Columbia from Panama. No road much less highway, no train route, no trail. So it’s boat, airplane, hot air balloon, what have you, but no fully land-based travel options exist for “migrants” to travelfrom South America to the U.S.A.


5 posted on 10/13/2021 11:58:25 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey
An absolutely impenetrable jungle divides Columbia from Panama. No road much less highway, no train route, no trail.

Such is true, with a couple of exceptions.

Two guys, riding Rokon Trailbreaker two wheel drive motorcycles made it through.

Rokons are now made in Rochester, New Hampshire.

Search for "Rokon" and "Darien Gap".

And I think a team with Land Rovers made it.

There may be a few others.

6 posted on 10/14/2021 12:05:02 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: blueplum

The entire world is invading us as the domestic enemy who occupied the oval office thru a coup has informed the entire world that the USA no longer has borders or enforces immigration laws and Republicans sit back watching all this while saying “duh duh duh duh duh”


7 posted on 10/14/2021 12:14:16 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Mogger

Lots of people coming this way now. Darian gap.
All walking, still dangerous, no bus or uber but
so many walkers from all over the world we might as
well pave it to complete the Pan American highway.

I don’t know why. I been thinking about sneaking (back) into
US just for free rent. Maybe do it 4 times and get a bunch of places.


8 posted on 10/14/2021 12:22:41 AM PDT by nicepaco
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To: Mogger

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/range-rover-darien-gap-history/


9 posted on 10/14/2021 12:31:33 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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They aren’t walking from South America to Mexico any more than the Haitians invading us swam from Haiti to Mexico before crossing the border. Somebody’s financing their transportation. Look at the pictures, 75% of them are overweight and staring at their Iphones. The illegals invading us aren’t the starving waifs the media makes them out to be.


10 posted on 10/14/2021 12:40:48 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Depending on the country of origin it can be difficult to get a US tourist visa. From many countries one has to show statements of employment, income and assets, and etc., to demonstrate why one was not a potential illegal immigrant and would not just overstay the visa. In many countries its a US consuls main job to screen visa applications.

Other countries citizens (Britain, EU countries, Australia, Japan ...) are just waved through at the airport, no visa needed.


11 posted on 10/14/2021 12:50:36 AM PDT by buwaya
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Middle class migrants?

Why don't they get a tourist or student visa, fly to the USA, and then just stay here?

The only reason people pay the cartel to jump the border is because they cannot get into the USA legally.

12 posted on 10/14/2021 3:46:11 AM PDT by zeestephen
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...seems like a lot of trouble when they could just fly directly into the US by saying they are a tourist.. then just stay.

Our laws go after the law biding... ( 'WOKE INSANITY') so your plan wouldn't work. Middle class and upper class citizens of the world need the stamp of approval that only 'border security' can give them.

Why?

It's the same as a young mother taking her kids to school and getting a ticket for going five miles an hour over the speed limit while 'homeless' (criminals) are shooting up heroin 30 feet away. The cops ignore the real criminals and focus on law biding...

13 posted on 10/14/2021 3:56:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (Military suicide deaths last year: 580- By COVID:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOC_dcuJO48)
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Hopefully 'the world' will start sending their elites (real ones not the BS phonies living around DC) to be arrested at the border so they can move to DC and replace the deadwood running our bureaucracies...
14 posted on 10/14/2021 4:01:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (Military suicide deaths last year: 580- By COVID:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOC_dcuJO48)
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Hopefully 'the world' will start sending their elites (real ones not the BS phonies living around DC) to be arrested at the border so they can move to DC and replace the deadwood running our bureaucracies...
15 posted on 10/14/2021 4:03:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Military suicide deaths last year: 580- By COVID:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOC_dcuJO48)
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To: Mogger

Interesting, thanks.


16 posted on 10/14/2021 4:49:58 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: blueplum
Cool story, thanks for that.

But this from the comments thereon pretty much sums it up:

So what we’ve learned from this colossal expenditure of manpower and resources is that the Range Rover is essentially useless in the jungle but quite adequate for “less demanding, fully-charted, mostly on-road ride[s].

17 posted on 10/14/2021 5:25:48 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: blueplum

If we had a government that gave a damn about our country we’d be hitting mexico really hard for allowing this. Unfortunately, TPTB want to replace us with a more compliant populace.


18 posted on 10/14/2021 7:43:50 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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We are going for the Brazilian social-economics model.


19 posted on 10/14/2021 7:46:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: blueplum; TexasFreeper2009

Several years ago I dated a Cuban woman who had come over in the 94 Cuban exodus. She had several friends from South America. I met two families who had come from South America on tourist visas and just stayed. They were, to be honest, intelligent, hard working, middle class people. Strangely, two of the men worked for government contractors on military helicopters. I never could figure that out. There is so much that goes on that the average person doesn’t know.


20 posted on 10/14/2021 7:47:25 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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