Posted on 04/28/2018 8:55:05 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Gabriela Hernandez and her two boys joined the "migrant caravan" of travelers across Mexico toward the United States, some hoping to cross the border. This is her story of the journey, compiled from multiple visits and interviews.
She is late.
Gabriela Hernandez has missed the caravan marching north.
As she realizes her mistake, she also knows she can't let it go.
She scrounges up enough coins to pay for a taxi. Not knowing exactly where the group is, they simply head north, asking along the way in the hope they will catch up with the group.
The pregnant mother of two has never before left Honduras. Now, she has fled her country, crossed Guatemala and found herself in the southern Mexican border city of Tapachula.
"I was very scared. I didn't even have a dollar for a hotel," she says later.
When she arrived with her two little boys, she didn't know whom to trust.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
No sympathy here for foreign invaders.
That should be subject to scrutiny at the level of national diplomacy. Since when does Mexico have the right to enable criminals (because it was also against Mexican law for them to cross the border into Mexico) safe passage in order to break OUR laws?
Unacceptable.
Why is Mexico such a shithole that she can’t get treated there?
Mexico is hoping we won’t look at their own byzantine system, which already repels people across their northern border.
Here’s where Donald Trump needs to talk turkey to Mexico. Even if we wanted to keep up the public welfare to foreigners, we would have the right to insist that it go to environments where effort is being made to keep it sane. And here is the problem. The corruption in Mexico is terrible.
“Are they too stupid, too corrupt?”
It’s corruption IMHO... These countries were laughed at and were called Banana Republics when I was a kid back in the 30s-40s.
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Read it again. She left Honduras, not Guatemala.
Hasn’t even Rome been part of this? Those in any Christian denomination ought to be leaning on their congregations and preachers to by all means send Christian charity across borders without having to pull the people across the borders the other direction.
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You think the corruption here isn’t terrible?
We have judges making legislative and executive actions.
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[ignoring the self righteous trollery]
That would obviously be wrong, and that rhetoric hurts the cause of those who want to protect the country from unfettered immigration, so please desist.
"Too many teardrops for one heart to keep crying."
The end result is that it hurts me and people like and not the elites.
Rich liberals would make a huge difference by helping but they scatter when it comes time to pay. There should be a Government program for that is what we are told by Leftists. Government is always the solution and we pay for the government.
Amen to that.
It would be better if we just simply occupied the region for a period and take out the trash.
Better than wasting our resources trying to reform the god-forsaken Middle East.
We have a culture of doing the right thing that descended from our forefathers. The industrious, religious and courageous people who came here for liberty and opportunity shaped the USA to this day.
I think the Central and South Americans never had this.
All of the caravan members are on Mexico’s account sheet. They could have kept them out. Really.!
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Keep walking with your eyes covered, and soon you’ll find yourself in the ditch.
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Amen
FIXED: She’s pregnant with two kids and taking them 3,000 miles to have you support them.
To a degree, yes. The current pontificate has been very pro-migration. We see it in people like Father "The Caravan was just here" that was mentioned in the article. We also see it in the way certain bishops and priests approach the issue in the US.
And it is true -- the Catholic teaching on the matter is that people do have a right to migrate, and nations have a duty to welcome migrants. But that right is not absolute, and an injustice is perpetrated on the citizens of a nation when their leaders FORCE them to accept numbers or kinds of migrants that cannot be integrated into the existing society. Civil leaders and Church leaders have largely failed to address this, and their failure has led to exactly the kind of sentiments that they hoped to avoid. In doing so, they also perpetrate an injustice on the migrants by fomenting anti-immigrant sentiments among citizens.
There are some priests and bishops here that would be in agreement with us here -- that most of the work needs to be focusing on alleviating the problems in the home countries of these migrants, both so they don't have to leave in the first place, and so the ones who only came for financial or safety motives CAN GO BACK.
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