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Migrants sew their mouths shut in quest for Mexico passage to U.S. border
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | February 16, 2022 | By Jose Torres

Posted on 02/16/2022 9:12:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) -A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico's southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country's immigration authority to grant them passage toward the U.S. border.

The migrants, mostly Central and South Americans, helped each other seal their lips using needles and plastic threads, leaving a small space to consume liquids and using alcohol to wipe away drops of blood from the stitches, Reuters images show.

“The migrants are sewing their lips together as a sign of protest," said Irineo Mujica, an activist at the demonstration. "We hope that the National Migration Institute can see that they are bleeding, that they are human beings."

Some were carrying their children when they staged the dramatic protest in Tapachula, a border city with Guatemala, which for months has been filled with thousands of migrants waiting for papers to be able to freely cross the country.

"I'm doing it for my daughter," said Yorgelis Rivera, a Venezuelan. "She has not eaten anything in the last few hours and I see no solution ... from the authorities."

"We are like prisoners here," Rivera said, adding she has been waiting for a response from Mexico's migration agency for more than a month.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; idiocy; illegalaliens; illegals; invasion; morons; protest; sewedshut; sewing; stupidity; tyranny; wellshutmymouth
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1 posted on 02/16/2022 9:12:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

that has got to be the most absurd way to protest anything that i’ve ever heard.


2 posted on 02/16/2022 9:13:30 AM PST by NicoDon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Deportations by trebuchet would reduce their fervor.


3 posted on 02/16/2022 9:14:16 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A bit over dramatic.


4 posted on 02/16/2022 9:14:17 AM PST by KosmicKitty (i am not responsible for gremlins attacking this tagline)
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To: NicoDon

Behead these parasites and shrink their heads; the mouths are already sewn shut. Go retro on them.


5 posted on 02/16/2022 9:15:45 AM PST by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights...)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I love my people —- pull—-aaaahhhh—— blam! It’s good to be the king!


6 posted on 02/16/2022 9:18:02 AM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s their complaint? Speak up!!! I can’t hear you.


7 posted on 02/16/2022 9:18:35 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One can hope that this style of protest spreads to BLM, Antifa, and the U.S. Congress.


8 posted on 02/16/2022 9:18:41 AM PST by Wonka (Get your own copy of the study)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

[[A dozen undocumented migrants on Mexico’s southern border sewed their mouths shut on Tuesday in a bid to convince the country’s immigration authority to grant them passage toward the U.S. border]]

Because nothing says “please let us in... we aren’t insane, really” quite like sewing your mouth shut


9 posted on 02/16/2022 9:19:27 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Help ‘em out with some super glue to top it off.


10 posted on 02/16/2022 9:20:13 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something"? I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If only this method of protest would catch on with certain
short-skirted, word salad-spewing, race-baiting motor-mouthed Socialist-Progressives from New York.


11 posted on 02/16/2022 9:20:19 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

said Yorgelis Rivera, a Venezuelan

who also voted for Hugo Chaves that resulted in the communist utopia that she is now escaping from. Yeah, as if the USA needs more people like her. /spit.


12 posted on 02/16/2022 9:20:25 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
It's easier to build a slingshot.


13 posted on 02/16/2022 9:20:58 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Bob434

Just what we need. More crazies.


14 posted on 02/16/2022 9:20:59 AM PST by Iceclimber58
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because the only way to save this country is a large influx of people with mental health issues.


15 posted on 02/16/2022 9:21:22 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My expectation for Trump from Day One of his second term will be to immediately begin construction of the border wall. I don’t want to hear more excuses about Congressional funding and then find out in Year Four that they are finally using discretionary funding - they need to be making plans for the border wall right now. That’s a big part of why I will be voting for Trump again.


16 posted on 02/16/2022 9:21:33 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Finally, poor Hispanic immigrants who won’t be obese and need treatment for diabetes.


17 posted on 02/16/2022 9:25:12 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

to grant them passage toward the U.S. border.

see, it has nothing to do wi asylum or being refugees...


18 posted on 02/16/2022 9:25:24 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

If they need money, they ought to take 100% of the budget from FBI and CIA and just start building the wall. It’s a national emergency.


19 posted on 02/16/2022 9:25:52 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something"? I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Far too crazy to let in here. We have enough insane people as it is!


20 posted on 02/16/2022 9:27:44 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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