Posted on 11/19/2018 1:17:26 PM PST by reaganaut1
SAN LUIS RÍO COLORADO, Mexico—The U.S. has slashed the number of migrants being allowed to cross the U.S.-Mexican border to legally apply for asylum, as caravans totaling some 10,000 migrants trudge north through Mexico.
Here at the border station across from Yuma, Ariz., 30 families or more normally cross each day, say Mexican immigration officials. But in the last two weeks the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has let in one family a day at most, say migrants and their advocates.
“It really seems like they are trying to discourage people from crossing to seek asylum legally, or trying to get them to go to other border crossings,” said Iveth López, an immigration counselor with Chicanos Por La Causa in Somerton, Ariz. “It’s been bad for a couple of weeks.”
Reports of slowdowns at legal border crossings like this one are becoming commonplace across the 2,000-mile border from Texas to California. Immigration lawyers have complained of asylum seekers being blocked in recent days from entering the U.S. from the Mexican border cities of Matamoros, Reynosa and Ciudad Juárez as well.
Last week, U.S. authorities announced they would “harden” the border at Tijuana, closing four lanes of traffic at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa crossings. As some 1,000 migrants arrived in Tijuana one recent day, border-patrol contractors unwound hundreds of yards of razor wire at the beachside border fence, as guards armed with rifles looked on.
And on Monday morning, thousands of drivers who normally commute each day from Mexico through San Ysidro—the busiest entry point between Tijuana and San Diego—to work on the U.S. side arrived to find the border closed for about three hours during the morning rush.
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Someopne needs to give these migrants low quality wire cutters that don’t cut wire. Let them waste all their energy and emotions trying to cut that wire.
Well how about them apples! “....It really seems like they are trying to discourage people from crossing to seek asylum legally....”
Why not just close the borders tight. Lock it down no one comes in or out. Keep it closed until 2020 or until the Democrats and Mexican Gov’t get serious about enforcement. Also shut down wire transfers to Mexico.
One to many. We don’t need anymore right noe
This is what a sovereign nation's border looks like.
Get used to it, Juan.
MAGA!
“Trump screwing the the normal commutes from Mexico to US as a catalyst to piss off the Mexicans to take action.”
Yep.
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I think mine is broke, it’s pegged down somewhere below minus 1000.
I read Lopez’s complaint and I was like, “Ya think?”
Yes!
“Nice border crossing you got here, Mexico... It’d be a real shame if someone was to shut it down.”
Good news.
me likey, mucho gusto! (wish it came in gif form too!)
Thank you! I am also unable to give a damn!
lol
They did worse than do nothing...they actually allowed and in some cases assisted with the invasion. The proof is simple. If Mexico wanted to stop them, they would have never been allowed to transit the nearly 2,000 miles over several weeks.
Hondurans find warm welcome on Mexico road
600 a day pass through Texas.
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