Posted on 07/14/2014 6:26:48 AM PDT by kristinn
The life jackets helped many make it across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, the Mexican city across the water from Mission, just west of McAllen. Sources say they come over on rafts ferried by the so-called “coyotes,” the human smugglers whose means of transport are rendered useless whenever discovered by the Border Patrol. Many don’t make it across the river; multiple sources became emotional when recounting their discoveries of small, lifeless bodies washed up along the riverbank.
FOX EXCLUSIVE: McALLEN, Texas — Life jackets of all sizes and the occasional punctured raft are strewn along the banks of the Rio Grande, just south of Mission, Texas, where a relentless onslaught of illegal immigrants eagerly surrender to beleaguered Border Patrol agents around the clock.
It’s a cycle for which there is no end in sight.
“You're going to be out here a long time,” Fernando, an El Salvadoran child, told FoxNews.com shortly after surrendering to Border Patrol authorities after midnight Saturday. “There are thousands of us."
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FoxNews.com accompanied Texas lawmaker Louie Gohmert, a former judge and current Republican Congressman, to the site in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday. Gohmert, whose district lies some 550 miles northeast of what has become the most heavily-trafficked people-smuggling route in the world, has been to the location many times, but has never seen it so understaffed and overwhelmed.
“I’m more concerned than ever [that the border is] so seriously undermanned and I’ll be raising hell in Washington,” Gohmert, who invited FoxNews.com to see the situation first-hand, would later tell Border Patrol officials.
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What would Emma Lazarus say?
Beyond sick and disgusting. But...this doesn’t minimize the fact that they don’t need to be coming here in the first place!
Texas ping!!
Not like the brazen giantess of New York,
With welcoming lantern by the Golden Door;
Here at our slime-washed, southern gates shall stand
A drowned woman with five drowned kids, and blame
For this travesty can never be named:
Mother of wet backs. From her fish-et-hand
An invitation shows; her dimmed eyes remand
The air-brained POTUS Barry; he’s the same.
“Keep, Mexico your endless slums!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost like me;
The smugglers charged a fortune, and what for?”
That map is an excellent resource. Thanks for posting the link. Thank God for NumbersUSA...one of the fingers in the dike.
Meanwhile, the majority of Americans stay glued to their TV sets, doing nothing about this, while America burns. Even in my own family...many are upset, very few are willing to actually do one thing (even call a Rep), about this invasion. Pathetic apathy.
Amazingly scary!
Luv W, thanks for the ping.
Anyone heard from our FReeper groups that traveled to the border? I think that JimRob said he was headed that way.
Haven’t seen any info on that - hope they’re all ok.
I think all is ok. I don’t think it was quite time for them to be here. I know Jim will ping us all :)
Thanks for the TX Invasion ping.
You’re welcome. I’m livid!
FOX News - check
ABC
CBS
NBC
YAHOO NEWS
NYT
What border crisis?
It’s 1776 and you aren’t Texas, you’re Massachusetts, trying to convince the other colonies that leaving you to fight the war in your colony alone is no solution. AND you must convince them that they have no right to ask you to keep fighting the king’s onslaughts at your own expense just so they can keep pretending that all is well when it’s an illusion. Good luck, John Adams
“....very few are willing to actually do one thing (even call a Rep)....”
The sad part about it is that some of our reps (not all) can’t seem to do anything about it! If you read some of the articles/symbols on the map....or is it on the left of the page? The reps are finding out about these illegal aliens AFTER they are dropped off and are living in these facilities!
“Amazingly scary!”
Absolutely!
Read this...
This site (below) will probably be a red symbol on the map tomorrow. It’s yellow now....
Click on “click this link,” then “open” at right bottom....
“The grant comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, which provides care and placement for children who enter the U.S. from other countries without an adult guardian. Over the past eight months, more than 34,000 unaccompanied children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been detained at the U.S. border, at which time the Office of Refugee Resettlement assigns them to temporary shelters through- out the nation. That figure is more than 10 times the figure from those countries in 2009.”
http://www.abbotthouse.net/?page_id=6428
Think nothing of it.....over 150 illegals are apprehended daily through one single county ‘NOT’ on the Protected border area. Breitbart reported on that. So you never know how many have died on the way.
Frankly I cease to care .... if adults are letting their kids do this...or gangs are doing this...or whatever...I really don’t care. They are no better than the Islamic terrorists and how they treat their kids....who will grow up and treat their kids that way too.
The majority of a nation are silenced by the overwhelming onslaught, coupled with the slogans used of "for the children and mothers" so that people feel ashamed for speaking out against this.
The black community has only just begun to realize the impact this is going to have on them....a few are beginning to speak out against Alibama.
Short of Americans going to the border themselves, with the Military support...I don't see any window to stop this... because by the time anyone acts via courts and congressional bills....the damage will be completed.
I don't think the majority of Americans know what to do about this that they haven't already done. ..and to do anything more will take leaders who can rise the people to defend the Borders.....I don't see any willing to take that role...the will just is not there.
Nice...
I’m not buying it. A few dead children, maybe. Hundreds, no. Empty rafts and life jackets mean nothing. Could be the debris was left on purpose to spin this story or they really came over and arrived safely. Not putting anything past this wicked admin.
Why do you need Governor Rick Perry’s permission???
Just curious...
If you are part of “millions” of Americans “ready” to comedown and man up on the vegetation line...
What again is stopping you and those millions???
Are you afraid of the Feds doing something to you, if you and the millions come here to the border???
You are correct in one thing you stated here...
It does take a leader...If Perry is too damn weak to act, why again do you need his permission to man up???
I’m just asking...Nothing personal...
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