Posted on 03/02/2016 7:38:59 PM PST by pilgrim
Gang violence and poverty have for years pushed Mexicans and Central Americans north to the United States, but recently a new driver has emerged: the anti-immigrant tone of leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
From the slums of Central America to close-knit migrant communities in U.S. cities, Trump's rise to the front of the Republican pack has not gone unnoticed and is partly behind a spike in the numbers of migrants trying to enter the country, including children traveling without guardians.
Interviews with migrants, people smugglers and officials show many migrants are trying to cross now instead of facing tighter policing and new policies to halt illegal immigration if Trump or another Republican wins the Nov. 8 election.
"If Trump wins, we're all screwed and all Latinos are screwed," Isaias Franco, a 46-year-old from El Salvador who was deported from the United States late last year and is now trying to get back, said at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows 150,304 migrants were detained trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between October and February, up 24 percent from the same period last year.
Similar data for "unaccompanied" child migrants - those traveling without a guardian - is not yet available, but between October and January, 20,455 kids were apprehended on the southwest border, up over 100 percent from a year ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Is their government now driving them up to the border to make it easier? Get rid of all of the criminal element while you can.
Yeppers, even the illegals believe Trump is going to be the next President. If they cross that border, they better expect that Trump will send them back.
So now the GOPe and MSM will blame Trump. While Obama allows a mass migration just like that EU!
LOL!! More than likely! Bus, train but our pResident has called for fewer Border Patrol if memory serves!!!
~”If Trump wins, we’re all screwed and all Latinos are screwed,” Isaias Franco, a 46-year-old from El Salvador...
You better believe if Trump wins there are more than a few legal Latinos who are going to look for payback against all the @&$! Line-cutting parasites.
Good try Reuters
None of us dream that you rush isn’t a fraction of what would happen if trump didn’t get in
hey believe
Ya. Thanks for the illegal surge, trump.
Has nothing to do with Trump. Our government quit enforcing the laws they were sworn to uphold.
Pure speculation on the part of Reuters.
Oh bull crap. The illegals stream ove been streaming over the border for years, and now, all of a sudden it’s Trump’s fault? I don’t think so! They might come, but, I’m not so sure they will be allowed to stay. Sanctuary cities need to go as well.
The illegal's belief that Trump will be POTUS is NOW resulting in a huge wave of same illegals INTO this country???
Into?? Not out??? Trump is drawing illegals HERE with his promises.
And this by the Trumpistas here is interpreted as good, not bad?
Well why would they be swarming in here believing him when he promises (to some of us) that he will mass deport??
Scam meter off the charts.
Hey! It was snark! Get a life, folks.
They GO BACK!!! MARK MY WORDS!! The easy way or the hard way— THEY GO BACK!! They are illegal aliens!!Get OUT!!
Obama is doing his duty and stopping them, right?
In this case, they are surging because they know the border will be secured under Trump or maybe even Cruz.
SCOTUS will also decide the legality of the Obama second executive amnesty in a few months.
It was a snark.
Sure it was.
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