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We Are Hungry!' Migrants Wail at Mexico-Guatemala Border
New York Times ^ | 10/20/2018 | AP via NYT

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; braking; caravan; gohome; guatemala; honduras; hondurascaravan; illegals; illegalsinvasion; immigration; returnhome; trump; wompwomp
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Ok...you are hungry...

Dear Publix, Could you please build Publix Supermarkets in Central America. Those people don't have food stores, so if build some, they can shop for food in their countries, instead of invading America. Thank you...

The solution... 😋

181 posted on 10/20/2018 7:14:53 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Rusty0604

Future welfare dependant “democratic” party voters.


182 posted on 10/20/2018 7:16:13 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: ZULU

Be a shame if anything were to happen to him..?


183 posted on 10/20/2018 7:20:36 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
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"

Then take them home and feed them.

184 posted on 10/20/2018 7:24:12 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Rusty0604
"We are hungry!"

The don't look underfed.


185 posted on 10/20/2018 7:26:03 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SmokingJoe

Once they arrive and settle into their new country they will demand 3 meals a day, medical care, a place to stay and any instructions must be in Spanish.
Gracias America.
Now get lost.


186 posted on 10/20/2018 7:28:29 AM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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To: SkyPilot

Well, if they’re that hungry and decide to resort to cannibalism, I know which fat bastard in the photo I’d choose to be Dinner.


187 posted on 10/20/2018 7:28:40 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: bgill

It’s mind boggling.


188 posted on 10/20/2018 7:32:35 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: fieldmarshaldj

who fed illegals yesterday....


I’m hungry today. Why don’t you guys feed me? Why did I waste all my life working for a living and have you leeches take my tax money? Someone estimated $7,000 per illegal has to be spent on food and water for this trip. And while not walking you get bus and train fare paid. Ask Soros for more food, not us.

No more millions of dollars in aid for any Latin or Central American country. Did anyone know we were gouged that much money for foreign aid? Let’s publicize that, FReepers. Would be a good campaign issue for next time if we offer to cut them off. Help us balance *our* budget by saving on this and cutting off Planned Parenthood.


189 posted on 10/20/2018 7:36:45 AM PDT by frank ballenger ("End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Tunehead54

Sheriff: ICE Forced to Quick-Release Migrant Families in Arizona

told Arizona Sheriffs it has run out of detention space to handle the number of migrants illegally crossing the border and presenting themselves at ports of entry. This lack of housing and the Flores Settlement’s 20-day release requirement forced ICE to release a large number of “family units” in Arizona all at once.

Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot told Fox News, “ICE hasn’t been able to keep up with individuals coming up the border from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, because they’re overwhelmed. They’re releasing them out of the front door of their facilities…Each of our communities are going to be faced with this crisis and one thing sheriffs have said is that what goes on on the border won’t stay at the border, it’s throughout the U.S.”

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/sheriff-ice-forced-quick-release-migrant-families-arizona


190 posted on 10/20/2018 7:37:56 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Snickering Hound

I like the poor destitute guy with the fancy selfie stick. And the great fan of irony holding up the flag of the country from which he seeks refuge.


191 posted on 10/20/2018 7:38:23 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Wal-Mart rubbing its grubby hands - can’t wait for them to apply for benefits here in the US


192 posted on 10/20/2018 7:39:09 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Envisioning

Agree.


193 posted on 10/20/2018 7:41:26 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Recycle ♻️ reuse! Use the flags for diapers.
194 posted on 10/20/2018 7:45:27 AM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Rusty0604

Timed perfectly for the midterms. They think they’ll gain sympathy votes for the Democrats who “care about the children.”


195 posted on 10/20/2018 7:47:37 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Rusty0604

At 0:28 in the video there’s a Star of David visible on the truck to the left of the lower left of the truck door window.

Behind the guy’s head climbing aboard.

Aid organization?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=33&v=NKap4n_KGbQ


196 posted on 10/20/2018 7:50:10 AM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Hungry?

Gp pick some fruits and vegetables. That’s what our great leaders say you will do when you get here.


197 posted on 10/20/2018 7:52:48 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Rebelbase

I was going to post that but I knew I’d get banned.


198 posted on 10/20/2018 7:54:10 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Truth29

Yep.


199 posted on 10/20/2018 7:57:43 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep....boop boop)
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To: Original Lurker

I tried to be as diplomatic as possible. It’s a valid question.


200 posted on 10/20/2018 8:02:48 AM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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