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Undaunted by Trump's wall, migrants vow to go over it
Yahoo News and AFP ^ | 13 Mar 18 | Yemeli ORTEGA

Posted on 03/13/2018 5:05:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot

A man jogs on the Mexican side of the Mexico-US border in Tijuana, from where prototypes of the wall that US President Donald Trump wants to build are visible

Eladio Sanchez is unimpressed by the eight border wall prototypes looming over his house in Tijuana, Mexico, almost within spitting distance of where US President Donald Trump will visit Tuesday.

At age 30, he has already snuck over the border several times, and doesn't expect Trump's wall will have much effect on undocumented migrants like him.

Pointing to the only prototype with an angular barrier at the top -- a concrete structure built by Texas Sterling Construction Company -- Sanchez says that one might slow him down a little more than the others.

But, he told AFP, "you can get over it anyway."

"It's just a little more complicated. But people are always looking for a way to get over -- out of necessity, not because we want to."

In Tijuana, Trump's visit to the prototypes looks like just the latest slap in the face from a man who launched his presidential campaign calling Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists" and has since driven US-Mexican relations to their lowest point in recent memory.

It's as if "he wants to come just to tell us he's here, that he's going to do what he promised with the wall," says Sanchez, who lives in a small gray house in a poor neighborhood that juts up against the border, across from Otay Mesa, on the outskirts of San Diego.

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KEYWORDS: illegals; immigration; mexico; wall
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"They just keep adding more, making it taller," he said from his rooftop.

Not tall enough apparently.

For many Mexicans who have been deported from the United States, things have gone from bad to worse under Trump.

"Everything is more difficult with Trump. He's really racist," says Carmelo Alfaro, 56, sitting on a mattress on the floor in the Migrant Hotel.

He was deported recently after working for 15 years as a gardener in San Francisco.

He now plans to move back "all alone" to his native state of Jalisco, in the west, and says he is resigned to living the rest of his life without his three US-born children. He and his wife decided they would be better off in the United States.

Yeah, really "racist" to make you comply with the same laws that your own nation (Mexico) rigorously enforces. But we're glad you left your spawn here to mooch off of Food Stamps, Universal Program for Subsidized Phones for Low Income, EBT Food Stamps (SNAP), ObamaCare Subsidies for Immigrants, ObamaCare Subsidies for Low Income, Medicaid, Section 8 Housing, Unemployment, TANF Welfare, Hispanic Energy Assistance, EITC, General Assistance Cash, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Assets for Independence, School Lunch Assistance, Child Care Development Fund, SCHiP State Supplemental Health Insurance Program, Consolidated Health Centers, Foster Care Grants, Consolidated Community Health, Maternal and Child Health Assistance Fund, Healthy Start, School Lunch Block Grant, Job Assistance, Job Training, Minority Job Assistance, Job Relocation, Woman Infants and Children's Program, Minority Summer Jobs, Hispanic Jobs Program, Special Milk Program, Needy Families, Farmer's Market Nutrition Program, Public Housing, Social Security Disability, Social Security for Refugees, Social Security for Humanitarian Cases, and Social Security for Asylum.


1 posted on 03/13/2018 5:05:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

The vow to come over it? A shoot to kill order will stop that. Let their bones pile up on the south side. The fertilizer will bring greening to the desert.


2 posted on 03/13/2018 5:07:27 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SkyPilot

Maybe that’s why God created snipers?


3 posted on 03/13/2018 5:09:51 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: SkyPilot

If a person can scale a 30’ wall, and then a second wall (probably not as high though), it should automatically make him eligible to become an American, providing he agrees to try out for the Olympics.

Try scaling just a 15’ smooth wall with an unfriendly topping and you’ll get what I mean.


4 posted on 03/13/2018 5:09:57 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Candor7

bare 480 volt wires might slow them down too


5 posted on 03/13/2018 5:10:54 AM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: SkyPilot

I thought they found the special forces couldn’t scale it, but good luck!


6 posted on 03/13/2018 5:11:56 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: SkyPilot
But people are always looking for a way to get over -- out of necessity, not because we want to."

Necessity?

Really?


You don't WANT to; but are COMPELED by some unknown force??

7 posted on 03/13/2018 5:13:26 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Candor7

Yup. My thoughts exactly. Shoot them coming over.


8 posted on 03/13/2018 5:14:16 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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"It's just a little more complicated. But people are always looking for a way to get over -

This is why we MUST quit giving SNAP, TANF, WIC, Medicare, government schools, driver licenses, etc. to illegal aliens.

If that doesn't curb their enthusiasm, we should try machineguns and land mines.

9 posted on 03/13/2018 5:16:39 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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A wall IS NOT a stand alone solution. It must be manned 7/24. Simply put a wall is a force multiplier and that is all.
10 posted on 03/13/2018 5:16:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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makes for a nice landing area...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina_wire


11 posted on 03/13/2018 5:23:24 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.nomi)
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To: Elsie

In all those gringo factories in Mexico, all those oil fields, you can’t find work? You just gotta hop the border?


12 posted on 03/13/2018 5:25:47 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: SkyPilot

Yahoo! and AFP are enemies within, enemies of America.

Time to call out them, Google, Facebook, Twitter and the rest for what they are - domestic enemies.


13 posted on 03/13/2018 5:25:55 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesteron)
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To: SkyPilot

Didn’t they send teams of Rangers or SEALS down there to try to scale them and even they couldn’t get over all of them?


14 posted on 03/13/2018 5:35:05 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: SkyPilot

It’s ironic that the Mexicans offended by being stereotyped as criminals love to brag about breaking American immigration laws.


15 posted on 03/13/2018 5:35:44 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: BobL
If a person can scale a 30’ wall, and then a second wall (probably not as high though), it should automatically make him eligible to become an American, providing he agrees to try out for the Olympics.

Any wall can be scaled. A wall just serves to slow down a crosser, unless it is watched, and scaling it results in armed response.

16 posted on 03/13/2018 5:38:34 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: SkyPilot

Keep it up, squatters, and we’ll have to electrify that fence. It will be the world’s biggest bug zapper.


17 posted on 03/13/2018 5:43:26 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SkyPilot

the border wall should be topped with a coil or two of concertina wire.


18 posted on 03/13/2018 5:45:50 AM PDT by euram
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In Tijuana, Trump's visit to the prototypes looks like just the latest slap in the face from a man who launched his presidential campaign calling Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists" and has since driven US-Mexican relations to their lowest point in recent memory.

¿no sabes lo que significa ilegal?

(Don’t you know what illegal means?)

19 posted on 03/13/2018 5:50:21 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: SkyPilot

Build turnstiles that operate in one direction - OUT - into the wall at several locations, then end welfare to illegals. They’ll self deport.


20 posted on 03/13/2018 5:50:51 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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