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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You brang 'em, YOU feed 'em!
Artillery ... That picture cries out for artillery.
Sounds to me more like they have the runs at the border.
You know what? My spouse, child, and I got into this country legally. We followed the rules and paid through the nose. Not just us....but our relatives who had to sponsor us. So SCREW YOU if I get a little emotional about an INVASION into the country that I’m from and hold dear to my heart. I kissed the GROUND when I got back!
I’m sick of pols playing “footsie”....and NOTHING GETS DONE!
Jim....just ban me, now. I’m done.
And, yes! If President Trump, who I rallied and voted for, doesn’t stop this invasion, I’m done!
Good. Jim can ban me. I have experience immigrating the RIGHT WAY.
We either have a rule of law or not....and Trump needs to stop this imvasion at the border. Period.
I was stopped at the UK border!
Srrew you. You, seriously, know NOTHING about my family.
How mature!
Congress makes the laws...Trump is limited in what he can do!
We need immigration reform!
They’re too busy working on ways to undermine President Trump.
I’ll mow my own yard thank you.
I’d quit my job to make that show
_______ rich environment.
If Americans showed up on the border ready for war I bet we’d be the ones getting arrested.
Think Waco,Ruby ridge, Lavoy Finicum, et
More of the same is needed, but with today’s weaponry and BOMBS!
It is interesting that all the migrants around the earth go NORTH, never south. They live in warm climates, not colder climates. Thus they have never had to think how to survive.
Almost all men in the photo. They should be home working to make themselves a better life not invading our country.
Make stone soup.
“all I hear about are the starving children and their “pity me” moms. There are no fathers? No men?”
In the above photo, it looks like the women have plenty of men to choose a husband from, yet I’m guessing, from the looks of the men, theh prefer “free stuff” over supporting a family.
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