Posted on 10/19/2018 9:50:17 PM PDT by Rusty0604
TECUN UMAN, Guatemala — A standoff between thousands of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States and Mexican police stretched through the night with some migrants hanging from the closed border gate wailing "there are children here" while others slept on the crowded bridge linking Guatemala to Mexico.
But they were met Friday by a wall of police with riot shields on the Mexican side of the bridge. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated, joining the sea of humanity on the bridge.
Police and immigration agents began letting small groups of 10, 20 or 30 people through the gates if they wanted to apply for refugee status. Once they file a claim, they can go to a shelter to spend the night.
As night fell on the bridge, the migrants' frustration turned to despair as women clutching small children took up the rows in front of the gate pleading with the Mexican federal police. Some migrants yelled "We are hungry!" Others wailed that they had children while others set up tarps to prepare for the night sleeping on the increasingly dirty and befouled bridge.
A Mexican marine official with a loudspeaker approached the gate and told migrants they would be taken in trucks to "a humanitarian attention center" in Tapachula, a border city in the Mexican state of Chiapas. But the official did not say when this would happen.
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The Mexican riot police aren’t doing their job.
Aren’t any of them asking for bandaids for their sore and blistered feet from all that walking? Haven’t they worn holes in their shoes by now? Shouldn’t they be using their baby poo stained shirts to wrap up their bloody feet? Shouldn’t they have sold their iphones to buy baby formula by now? Surely, some should have gotten jobs right where they are to help with the clean up after the horde passes.
Or could all this be, dare I say, fake.
SOROS didn’t think about food & water??
She ate 3 of her kids already.
The man’s white shirt is too clean to have traveled all those miles. It’s too clean for half an hour of the kid’s shoes kicking on it.
The only ones I feel sorry for is the US taxpayers. My hope is this will have the same impact for voters as the ‘dreamers’ marching in the streets with the Mexican flags......
There must be fish in the water off that bridge. I didn’t see any of them so hungry they were fishing.
Last I heard, the Mex police had them stopped and is taking in small groups for procesesing. That’s the best we can expect with current US law.
I want to camera to turn around to show the cheer leader guy who is directing them to put their hands over their hearts.
We Are Hungry!>>>>>>>>>>>>
Doubtful unless the Soros’ organizers have made away with all that leftist money sent to them.
I wonder whether the CIA yet has proof of who is paying for this gig?
Cannon Fodder of the left.
Give them a whiff of grape.
They all seem to have nice new straight out of the package flags. Funny, they had the forethought to purchase flags but not diapers.
Operation Extreme Prejudice
I hear that Jeff Flake might run.
In the meantime, Trump is rallying big time with Senator Ted Cruz to keep the senate. How would you feel if Cruz is grateful for that?
Rhetorical or not...the answer is the USA, our tax dollars, the working man, the saps and suckers of the north... :(
‘Funny, they had the forethought to purchase flags but not diapers.’
Ouch!
Good point.
And someone gave cash the moms. Metmom wonders why the moms don’t buy some food.
Why is the white race not growing?>
Its Anne Coulter’s fault. She should set an example by getting in a family way.
“...the saps and suckers of the north... :( “
Not anymore, FRiend.
The only way we can lose is if the other side cheats.
They have no issues. Trump is popular.
God bless America!
Most journalists are.
Good point. And if Coulter needs a father....
[Never mind. I have no chance.]
It’s 1500 miles as the crow flies from Guatemala to TX. She’s going to have to make the trek back and forth a couple of times.
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