Ailing Central American migrants in dire conditions dig in at U.S. border

Reuters ^ | Nov. 28, 2018 | Christine Murray

[libstripper]

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of Central American migrants are digging in for the long haul at a filthy, overcrowded sports complex in sight of the United States, while a small number have opted to return home after clashes with border forces dimmed hopes of crossing.

The bedraggled men, women and children of a caravan of mostly Hondurans began cramming into the complex in Tijuana about three weeks ago. They now number more than 6,000 in a space the city government first prepared for a third as many.

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The overcrowding has also helped illness spread. There have been multiple cases of respiratory illnesses, lice and chicken pox, according to three city officials who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media. (Emphasis added.)

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of course, but adding shi$ to a sh% hole only makes it deeper

[BlueLancer]

With too many to fit into shelters, the migrants, who had traveled about 3,000 miles ... enduring the harsh elements and lack of privacy as they had learned to do on each leg of their near daily 30-mile treks from northern Honduras.

"It cost me a lot to walk almost 15 to 20 hours a day, and to go back now: no," said Anabell Pineda ... who had traveled for almost a month from the violent Honduran city of San Pedro Sula with her six-year-old son...

Now, just a darn minute ... these numbers don't add up.

3000 miles at 30 miles per day (nearly every day) = at least 100 days. Yet she traveled "for almost a month" to get from Honduras to Tijuana?

Somebody's playing with the numbers here ...

[GnuThere]

Then they’ll be right at home in LA!

[GnuThere]

What are the chances the CDC knows what country’s immigrants unleashed the new polio-like illness affecting US kids, and they’re keeping it under wraps?

[catnipman]

“I suspect that a lot of the recent outbreaks of mysterious ailments or other diseases that used to be eradicated in the US were carried across the border by illegals, but the media will never report that possibility.”

i don’t think there’s any doubt about either of those two matters ...