Posted on 03/19/2022 4:41:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Russians trying to enter the United States at the Mexican border are frustrated they are not getting in like Ukrainians are, despite leaving their homeland over the invasion of Ukraine.
U.S. officials have let dozens of Ukrainians through this week but Russians remain in limbo, prompting some to camp on the pavement alongside a barbed wire border fence, defying warnings from Mexican authorities to leave.
Irina Zolkina, a math teacher who left Moscow with her four children and her daughter's boyfriend, burst into tears when a U.S. border agent on Thursday took one look at her stack of Russian passports and shook his head, saying they would have to wait - soon after officials ushered in six Ukrainian men.
"There are so many years of fear that we're living in ... it's awful inside Russia too," she told Reuters in the Mexican border city of Tijuana opposite San Diego, California.
Mikhail Shliachkov, 35, seated on a cot under a parasol to take cover from the glaring sun, said he resolved to go to Mexico with his wife the day after the invasion, fearing he would be called up to fight close relatives in Ukraine.
"I don't want to kill my brothers, you know?" he said, showing a photo of his birth certificate that states his mother was born in Ukraine.
As the Russians wait, U.S. border officials have also turned away asylum seekers from Nigeria, Colombia, Honduras and Mexico, sparking complaints of unfair treatment.
"There's an element of racism by U.S. authorities," said Kevin Salgado, 19, a Mexican from the violent state of Michoacan, where he said his father and 16-year-old brother, both members of a community police, were killed.
"Why are they letting the Ukrainians pass? ... Can someone explain to us?"
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I hear Canada is nice this year, and it even comes complete with a little Stalinist ruler!
Am I reading this right on that we have Ukrainians entering the country through the southern border?
Reuters is using the presence of Russian and Ukrainian migrants as a wedge to open up the southern border.
If we allow it the genuine refugees from Eastern Europe, so the thinking goes, then it’s racist not to allow in migrants from Central America and Africa. This is the narrative the fake news wants to build up.
Ukrainians, Nigerians, Colombians, Hondurans, Mexicans…the entire freaking world…
We should only be letting PEOPLE WITH EDUCATION AND SKILLS into the country IF THEY HAVE ADVANCED EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEED BY A US CITIZEN and ARE 100% INELIGIBLE FOR ANY TYPE OF WELFARE for 10 YEARS!
Perhaps we could hire one to teach you to lay off the Caps Lock key? :P
“Dozens”? That article wasn’t worth the effort to type it.
I’m bringing my wife daughter and daughter in law and baby this way. I’m a US citizen by the way. Poland Germany are swamped.
AMEN!
“Why are they letting the Ukrainians pass? ... Can someone explain to us?”
Cause they’re carrying 10% for the big guy?
The LEFT thinks that Ukrainians illegally entering the country at the Mexican border is Trumps fault!
You can't guarantee that they will vote 'Rat Party.
Good luck!
Why are we letting any of them in?
Are they bringing a lot of money to invest here ?
Technical skills or a record of scientific accomplishment?
Good luck. Keep us posted when you’re safe.
We have people from EVERYWHERE invading the USA across the southern border.
We should only allow people who have applied for, paid for, waited for, and comply with the documents that make the immigrants.
All others should be deported.
For God’s sake are we never going to stop being some bloody Motel 6 for the whole damn word!?!
What is with this?
When were We The People ever asked to be foster parents to every jabbering Second and Third World mutt who thinks they’ve got a God given right to march on in here.
Now Russians want in here along with our constant gate crasher’s from Mexico , Central and South America.
For cryin’ out loud. When is enough?
Not until last stronghold -the USA- is no more, and there is no where else to go I fear. 😢
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