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Faced with months-long wait in Mexico, some caravan migrants decide to go home
WP ^ | November 28 at 7:01 PM | Kevin Sieff and Joshua Partlow

Posted on 11/28/2018 7:24:54 PM PST by conservative98

TIJUANA, Mexico — Nelmy Ponce and her three children are tired of sleeping on the ground, rain or shine. They’ve had enough of the insults — passersby screaming “pigs!” at them — just because they’re foreigners.

When they first joined, the migrant caravan seemed like a way to escape the precariousness of living amid Honduran gangsters. Now she says it feels like its own kind of purgatory, with no chance to apply for asylum in the United States anytime soon.

“God is telling me to return home,” Ponce said.

And so Ponce, a 46-year-old taco vendor, and her three children on Wednesday sat in plastic chairs under a small tent advertising an option some of the most desperate here are now considering: “assisted voluntary return.”

For migrants who spent two months walking and hitchhiking through Central America and Mexico, it is a dramatic reversal, a sign of how poor the conditions are here, and how surprised some families are when they learn details about the lengthy U.S. asylum process.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; caravan; immigration; tacos; trump
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1 posted on 11/28/2018 7:24:54 PM PST by conservative98
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Nelmy Ponce and her three children

I can't tell you how sick I am of the 'cold open' which usually relies on emotional blackmail.

I don't care what her name is. I don't care how many kids she's had or if they are with her.

Go home. You are not wanted. You are not needed. Sort your own country out, lazy bint.

2 posted on 11/28/2018 7:27:52 PM PST by relictele
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To: conservative98

Yeah, sure. 2000 miles back home or 20 miles to the east where there is no fence, no military and no cameras.


3 posted on 11/28/2018 7:28:36 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: conservative98

Now don't come back. Ya hear?
4 posted on 11/28/2018 7:28:37 PM PST by conservative98
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5 posted on 11/28/2018 7:28:56 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: conservative98
“God is telling me to return home,”

It's wise to heed the Word of the Lord.

6 posted on 11/28/2018 7:29:34 PM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: conservative98

“I’ll be hommmmme for Chrisssssstmassssss....”


7 posted on 11/28/2018 7:31:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: conservative98

she looks like the same lady in that picture avoiding the “tear gas” with the little kids.


8 posted on 11/28/2018 7:31:26 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: conservative98

the money they got for walking in November must’ve dried up. Election is over.


9 posted on 11/28/2018 7:32:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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Stay away! Return to your crappy country of origin . We don’t need your parasitic socialist ways here.


10 posted on 11/28/2018 7:33:25 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: conservative98
Taco vendor eh?


11 posted on 11/28/2018 7:35:34 PM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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12 posted on 11/28/2018 7:35:41 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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Mexico offered them asylum and jobs several weeks ago and they refused...


13 posted on 11/28/2018 7:37:46 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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They are from Central America; they packed Winter coats for the trip?

Did they even know what a Winter coat was?

Did they book round trip for the bus ride back?

14 posted on 11/28/2018 7:41:24 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: conservative98

It seems to me that if HONDURAS,GUATEMALA,NICARAGUA,and EL SALVADOR are such bad places to live, the UN should be the one stepping in and doing something about it. Isn’t that what we pay them for ?


15 posted on 11/28/2018 7:41:26 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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If GOD really DOES "talk" to this subhuman, HE should have told her to NOT join this "caravan" mess to begin with!

She and the rest of this INVADING HORDE of parasites, are too stupid to be allowed to continue to breathe! Not a one of them are wanted nor needed in Mexico and even less so in America!

Why they believed that they would be welcomed, here, with open arms, fed, housed, clothed, and every need and want taken care of was some pie-in-the-sky fairy tale that they wanted to believe and nothing more.

All of them should be sent back from whence they came and told that not a one of them will EVER be allowed to set one foot into America; let alone "taken care of" !

16 posted on 11/28/2018 7:43:59 PM PST by nopardons
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To: UCANSEE2

The damned UN is and has ALWAYS been utterly and completely USELESS!


17 posted on 11/28/2018 7:46:07 PM PST by nopardons
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To: conservative98

“Taco vender” is a career? Wherever this woman settles, her fate is to find the local taqueria so she can continue to vend tacos?


18 posted on 11/28/2018 7:48:28 PM PST by I-ambush (I didnÂ’t think, I never knew, that I would be around to see it all come true)
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To: conservative98

How many times were you warned NOT TO COME TO THE BORDER???

AND YOU BROUGHT YOUR KIDS!!????


19 posted on 11/28/2018 7:49:22 PM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: conservative98

The awakening perhaps. GEE WHIZ! (en Espanol of course) Maybe we were lied to, and used?


20 posted on 11/28/2018 7:52:01 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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