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Trump's resolve is breaking the migrant caravan up fast
American Thinker ^ | 11/05/2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 11/05/2018 7:43:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Dragging into its fourth week, all signs are on that the migrant caravan is falling apart.

According to the Associated Press:

ISLA, Mexico – A 4,000-strong caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico split up into several groups with one spending the night in a town in the coastal state of Veracruz and other migrants continuing toward the country's capital.

The divisions came during a tense day in which tempers flared and some migrants argued with caravan organizers and criticized Mexican officials.

How did it happen?  Obviously, someone promised them something for free and then didn't pay up.  This is about what you'd expect when someone offers something for free, and then realizes that the whole thing is not going to pay off in the politically useful way he wanted.

Whether it was Venezuelan or Sorosian or Mexican, the free cash for a free ride to the border and all the free stuff of the U.S. just never materialized.  That has raised questions about why the group should stay together instead of split apart.  After all, anyone can apply for asylum to the states on his own.  Applying in a 4,000-strong group pretty well means a long wait time.

A promised bus ride to Mexico City for thousands of migrants from Central America was the latest money that never materialized.  Mexico's Veracruz governor, anxious to get the migrants out of his home state as soon as possible, promised them all free bus rides to Mexico City and then withdrew the offer, likely because Mexico City didn't want to take them.  Federal authorities there warned the Veracruz governor he'd be charged with human-trafficking if his free bus rides rolled out to the Mexican capital.  Obviously, Mexico City does not see itself as having much to gain politically from the big migrant caravan

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; bloggers; bordersecurity; braking; caravan; hondurascaravan; illegals; illegalsinvasion; invasion; mexico; trump; trumpwinsagain; winning
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To: caww

As a lapsed Catholic, I fully agree with your assessment of the damage that Catholic Charities (et al) are doing to our country. My husband, who attends a Church of Christ), brings home his church bulletin and I’m sickened by the amount of dollars drained out of a small congregation going to Latin American countries and the number of do-gooders who take missionary trips to South America (some even bringing back exotic diseases to this country after their stints there). It’s disgraceful that they can’t help older citizens who are on fixed incomes and struggling in their own backyards, but traipse half way around the globe to put in efforts which never show results.


181 posted on 11/05/2018 7:23:35 PM PST by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
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To: Jim Robinson; SeekAndFind; caww

Kuddos to Trump.

But I still have a sneaky feeling the “shrinking caravan” the MSM is peddling on the nightly news is kabuki theatre. One of the reasons the caravan is melting is because people have been contracting rides. Whether it’s coyotes slipping in and and promising folk can pay after they get in the US, or remittances are funding private transportation, the reality is We already have groups of Guats and Hons coming over the border, fresh as daisies.

That said, it will dawn on Mexico sooner or later that these caravan folk will be in direct competition for jobs with their own nationals in America. And in direct competition for public aid and services. Just as Mexican hispanics floated/forced themselves to the top, above our resident black population as the most needy, so to will Central American Hispanics take priority over Mexicans. And that means remittances to Mexico will be heavily impacted. When all that sinks in, Mexico’s elite will pour on the pressure for Mexico to put serious effort into ‘protecting its soverienty’ rather than lose -their- golden goose.


182 posted on 11/05/2018 8:00:59 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: bitt
I disagree! Everywhere I go, there are obvious non-citizens,

See something, say something.

Next step....a bounty on wetbacks.

183 posted on 11/05/2018 8:35:59 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: SeekAndFind

[ Federal authorities there warned the Veracruz governor he’d be charged with human-trafficking if his free bus rides rolled out to the Mexican capital. ]

That’s the most sensible thing I’ve heard out of Mexico in a while.


184 posted on 11/05/2018 10:09:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: caww
Do you really think they will stay there? I don’t.

They'll have no choice. There is NO other option.

185 posted on 11/06/2018 4:19:17 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Jim Robinson

GREAT speech last night with Rush and Sean there! God spare America from the Left!


186 posted on 11/06/2018 10:18:41 AM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
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To: All

An objective for the 2020 elections would be stricter laws to prohibit illegal aliens from voting. I leave the details up to your best judgement as I don’t vote in the USA myself and only familiar with Canadian elections, but here you would have to establish your legal residency if you’re not on a voters’ list, you can’t just walk in on election day and convince three sympathetic (i.e. Democratic) polling station officials that you’d like to vote. That seems to be what’s going on in some American states. Do you not have people from all participating parties acting as observers in your polling stations (places where people vote)? We do, they are called scrutineers and they are on the lookout for fraudulent voting including multiple voting and ballot box tampering. Everything that happens here in a federal election is watched by people sent in from all the parties. Accusations of fraud are very rare here (which may not mean that instances are very rare but that would take some major deception to avoid being observed).

I figure that HRC’s so called popular vote win was only on account of 4 or 5 million illegals voting for her. Take those away, she might not win three or four states and definitely not the popular vote.


187 posted on 11/06/2018 10:42:10 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (In the alternate universe, John McCain was a one-term president and Sarah Palin a two-term president)
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To: greeneyes

RE the purpose of the military at the border:

THANKS FOR FILLING IN THE DETAILS! :-D


188 posted on 11/06/2018 11:41:01 AM PST by TEXOKIE
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To: Jim Robinson

Thank you very much, TEXOKIE!! Greatly appreciated.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

You are most welcome! Thanks for providing such a great forum!


189 posted on 11/06/2018 12:25:36 PM PST by TEXOKIE
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The policies that allow this are un American and are funded by the government

This needs to stop.


190 posted on 11/06/2018 1:12:59 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: bgill

Where is the wire?

In the US miles from the border?

I should be right on the border line, or a few feet into Mexico.


191 posted on 11/06/2018 1:14:06 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: arrogantsob

Enforce the laws and they will self-deport in large numbers.

If they do not get free food, free education, free housing, free medical plus welfare dollars, they will see they were better off where they came from.

The dems meme “you can’t put them all in buses and take then back to Mexico” (or where ever they came from) is a diversion tactic.


192 posted on 11/06/2018 1:18:26 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Syncro

Yes, stop the inflow and the problem can be handled. If more are coming in than going out, it can’t be.


193 posted on 11/06/2018 1:37:00 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: arrogantsob

“If more are coming in than going out, it can’t be”

Trump is working on that against all odds

(the left, the liberals, the dems, the eGOP, the press, Soros, Clintons-all three- Schumer, Plosi [and their ilk], Obama, Alinsky, Mexico, Honduras, Communists, Marxists, Venezuela, Cuba and many more)

Make America America Again! [MAAA]


194 posted on 11/06/2018 2:05:39 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

A hundred Billion $’s would be saved per year

That’s about what it costs the USA per year for illegal invading insurgent criminal alien colonists per year

The wall would be paid for a few times over with the savings and America can get back on track to become the prosperous Free Brave Country it was meant to be

MAAA! Make America America Again


195 posted on 11/06/2018 2:12:23 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Syncro

MAAA- Make America America Again!!! Love that!

What happens in Mexico needs to STAY in Mexico. Ditto Central America.


196 posted on 11/06/2018 2:30:12 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: SeekAndFind

Divide and conquer.


197 posted on 11/06/2018 8:13:46 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Trump's resolve is breaking the migrant caravan up fast

Partner, we can honestly "Thank God" for President Trump for sending these Illegals Aliens back to their "Syrup" Hole countries and make their own countries better.

We do not need anymore Illegal Aliens since we already have around 40 Million to 50 Million Illegal Aliens.

198 posted on 11/07/2018 12:58:57 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: John O

Partner, My brother in law has retired from HPD but after he retired he worked in getting these Illegal Alien felons back to their country of origin,

He told me that he would fly back convicted Illegal Alien felons back to the capital of say Guatemala or El Salvador or etc., etc.

He worked for on a contract basis and those convicted Illegal Alien felons wore hand cuffs and ankle cuffs and he made sure they were handed over to the proper authorities in these foreign countries.

My brother in law served in the 101st Airborne out of Ft. Bragg, N.C. before he landed the job as a police officer with HPD.

We do not do this anymore since Obama stopped on of this work and he got laid off.

199 posted on 11/07/2018 1:08:06 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
What happens in Mexico needs to STAY in Mexico. Ditto Central America.

Partner, I like this saying on a T-Shirt. Heck, you can probably sell quite a few.

Partner, BTW, we love that saying too.

200 posted on 11/07/2018 1:10:53 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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