Posted on 10/23/2018 10:14:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
"We are going to reach the United States," declares one Erasmo Duarte, as he and a couple of thousand would-be Americanos hike northward through Mexico toward the Promised Land -- with scant appreciation, I'm afraid, for the non-welcome in store for them at the Rio Grande border and points west.
The marchers say they're coming. Donald Trump says they ain't. That pretty much settles things to Trump's advantage, without settling the vexed issue of cross-border access in an age unsure how much nationalism in human affairs is just the right amount of nationalism.
The last immigration moderate still standing in America proposes to weigh in on this great matter.
That plenty of Hondurans might be sick of violence and poverty in Honduras is easy to see. The last-immigration-moderate-still-standing (hereafter, the "LIMSS") has gone on mission trips to Honduras. He sees their point.
That you can't be allowed just to cross borders because you want to and wherever you want to should be equally easy to see. Why is it not?
At least partly because of two admirable human emotions: pity and compassion. Nobody leaves a well-paying job and happy hearth to tread the path of the unwelcome stranger. Newcomers want a better life. Thus, pity and encouragement well up from Americans differently situated: well fed, well housed, well protected. In addition, with employment lower than in half a century, employers need more workers. Politicians, after the manner of their breed, have their own happy dreams: grateful, duly enfranchised newcomers electing them and their friends to Congress.
On the other hand...
Whereas refugees from political persecution normally find hospitality in free countries, self-election as a refugee, based on economic deprivation, is a non-starter. It has to be. Come one, come all -- the policy of the Honduran caravaners -- is unworkable, as anybody who gives the matter an instant's thought can plainly see.
Jurisdictional boundaries -- a part of the structure of rules protecting life and civilization -- are a necessity. Any country enjoys the right to decide, generously or otherwise, who gets to live within its borders.
Such is and always was the case, millennia before evolution and divine will -- or caprice -- gave us Trump. With Trump's off-the-wall image, the caravaners are playing games. They know he doesn't cotton to border-jumpers. They figure, nevertheless, that Democrats and liberal churchmen may put the full-court press on him, aided by social media and steaming commentary in The New York Times. Whether admitted or repulsed at the border, the caravaners must see large gains.
Their expectation may prove illusory, the LIMSS suggests. Americans barely know Honduras exists, far less that it's presently a mess. When Trump barks ultimately, "Alto! -- Halt!" that will take care of the matter; saving only the political cleanup from an affair helpful mainly to those who long for his impeachment and ouster. "Why, the big jerk! He hates the helpless!" Such is the political takeaway open borders advocates, here and south of the border, hope to manufacture -- to the general disadvantage, the LIMSS would add, of all who see the immigration wars as destructive and in grave need of settlement.
Settlement is a commodity you don't get in the absence of unpressured discussion leading to unforced concession -- freighted, as lightly as possible, with demagoguery.
There's always room in America for immigrants with needed and useful skills -- immigrants willing to play by ancient understandings that, with due room for the claims of justice, privilege a nation's own people over those from any other place.
The ancient understandings were at one time taken for common sense -- artifacts of thought, to which you said, "Well, yeah. Sure. Of course." The of-courseness, the taken-for-grantedness of the straightforward and natural, isn't precisely a feature of today's philosophical landscape. So Trump should brace for more cries than ever of "How dare you defend our borders?! " His assumed willingness to dare may do much more for his prestige and influence than many expect, far less hope.
So Mexico can’t stop them from riding in trucks?
Can’t see that plate on the truck. Is that an American plate?
Shouldn’t they have seat belts?
So Mexico can’t stop them from riding in trucks...
When the current President of Mexico was running for office, I read an article saying that he was pro-emigration of his people to the US in large amounts.
Good point!
Two steps to stopping this.
1. Have operatives mix in with the caravan members to get intel as to who’s paying for all of this as well as to make transportation difficult by disabling vehicles.
2. Use the intel gathered to freeze the accounts being used to pay for all the food, water, sanitation, organization (yes, they have team leaders etc.), and transportation.
Hitting transportation will slow the caravan down, freezing the money will make the caravan disappear.
The end game by the libs to get images of U.S. Military or Law Enforcement shooting or beating women and children, but to be effective, it has to happen just before the election.
If the caravan is 200 or more miles from the border on election day, it will quickly disappear the day after the election.
I’ll say it again, slow ‘em down and take away their funding. Most importantly, don’t let them within 50 miles of the border.
Time for Uncle Sugar to cut the flow of taxpayer dollars. Seems like that’s all these crooked Presidents understand.
Do we, like, have an extra smart bomb or two just laying around gathering up dust?
This picture reminds we of the one of ISIS marching in formation easing on down the road. Scary.
You can’t bring a dog or a parakeet into this country unless it sits in quarantine for weeks...so why is it OK to bring in thousands of people from everywhere with who knows WHAT condition or diseases?
The Latin Invading Expeditionary Force has now reached the size of a military DIVISION. The Mexicans are apparently giving them maps of Texas. It is said that enough Mexicans are joining them as they march north that they will number FIVE MILITARY DIVISIONS by the time they reach America! Can they be stopped??
It’s a communist invasion on the southern border
Wake up Sergio. This ain’t a bunch of gypsies, fortune tellers, and circus performers in a “caravan.” It is a FOREIGN INVASION.
Heard on the 1pm news, they called it a day of rest. No shoes, no socks just bare feet and flip flops. Apparently there are long lines at a setup medical tent. Lots of blistered feet.
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Looks like an international plate
Even faster
Suspend all money transfers to Central America
Freeze all Mexican bank accounts
Cut all aid to Central America
Kick UN out of the US
Cut all UN funding
http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/MX_MXXX.html
Scroll to bottom for later dates of Mexican license plates. I doubt that is a Mexican plate from what I saw.
Infiltration of this mob would be a piece of cake. Do it. Sow chaos quietly, away from the cameras. Slow them down, make them actually walk. Do it.
It looks like a plat for a rental truck. That has a blue stripe on the top. Who’s paying for a rental truck?
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