Posted on 08/19/2023 5:42:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CINCINNATI (AP) — Aissata Sall was scrolling through WhatsApp in May when she first learned about the new route to the United States. For Ibrahima Sow, the discovery came on TikTok a few weeks later.
By the time their paths crossed at the tidy one-story brick house in Cincinnati, they had encountered hundreds of other Mauritanians, nearly all of them following a new path surging in popularity among younger migrants from the West African nation, thanks largely to social media.
The spike in migration was made possible by the discovery this year of a new route through Nicaragua, where relaxed entry requirements allow Mauritanians and a handful of other foreign nationals to purchase a low-cost visa without proof of onward travel.
As word of the entry point spreads, travel agencies and paid influencers have taken to TikTok to promote the trip, selling packages of flights that leave from Mauritania, then connect through Turkey, Colombia and El Salvador, and wind up in Managua, Nicaragua. From there, the migrants, along with asylum seekers from other nations, are whisked north by bus with the help of smugglers.
“The American dream is still available,” promises a video on TikTok, one of dozens of similar posts from French-speaking “guides” that help Mauritanians make the trip. “Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today.”
“We wish you success. Nicaragua loves you very much,” a man working for a travel agency says in Spanish in another video.
Previously, applying for asylum in the U.S. meant flying to Brazil, then risking a dangerous trek through the dense jungle of the Darien Gap. The new route through Nicaragua bypasses that link.
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Would any of the Mauritanians be offended by the term Cincinnati ‘Reds’? Sure would like to know in advance.
Now it is the lure of free money that calls to those who would come to these United States and learn where they can enroll in the harvest of the nation, while not planting productivity themselves that they may harvest of their own work.
Lest any wonder, this is also happening throughout Europe. Free money. Come one, come all. And don't forget reparations, 'healthcare is a human right,' and universal basic income (UBI), "a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a guaranteed income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment (i.e., without a means test or need to work)."
Without the need to work. Guaranteed.
...as I couldn't give 2 shitz about half of my "fellow" country men/women/whatever right now.
Poking around a little: Mauritania, a Sunni Muslim Islamic state with a high rate of tuberculosis.
wish the french speaking guide would guide their asses to France.
Funny. Every freeloader on the planet is trying to make it to a “racist and evil country” run by “WHITE SUPREMACISTS.” Something doesn’t jive with all the crap we read in the DNC’s Media of Disinformation.
They can stop sleeping on the sidewalks in their county and come to sleep on ours.
The American Dream updated.
A lot of these illegals are going to be in for a rude awakening their first rough winter here.
And get no sympathy from me.
Perfect. The "there are too many people in the world" folks will be pleased.
The nation itself must be a lie, because their anthem sings "Land of the Proud, Guided by Noblemen..."
Since they were a French colony, and since French is the second language after Arabic, shouldn't they emigrate to France? Seems the right thing to do....
The US will be all the Slums of the world in one place
“A lot of these illegals are going to be in for a rude awakening their first rough winter here”
They can always move to Florida...
These are not “asylum-seeking, refugees”. They are freeloaders coming to American to live off the backs of the American taxpayers. I’d love to hear the commie lib “miggy advocates” justify that. Our own laws say that what these freeloaders, malcontents and misfits are doing is illegal and should not be allowed to seek a free ride on the backs of Americans.
So there is no place between Mauritania and the United States that can offer them whatever relief they are seeking? Call me skeptical. And all they have to do in the home stretch is slip across our southern border and they are in for good.
Close the border with Mexico. Make it so nothing crosses it but the birds.
The great replacement is in overdrive.
The “there are too many people in the world” folks will be pleased.
Isn’t it strange how those people never come to the conclusion that they’re the one too many?
Look at that route. How much do those tickets cost? One hell of a lot of Americans would struggle to buy those tickets.
If they have that kind of money, they are doing well enough to stay home.
A fine question and observation. I have more than once suggested to some idiot -- so often a Democrat -- who says "there are too many people on the planet," to show the courage of their convictions and....
Oddly, they have never been amused. Nor answered.
“The American dream is still available”
A dream of a middle class life, forever, on government welfare.
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (Arabic: الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية) in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest.
No wonder real estate there is so pricey. Sort of like Malibu.
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