Posted on 11/29/2018 9:26:44 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Thousands of Hondurans have made the treacherous trip through Mexico to the U.S. border, saying they are fleeing gang violence, but...experts say Mexican crime data may undermine their case for asylum -- they passed through several Mexican states with lower murder rates than some U.S. cities.
Mexico as has a murder rate of 19.3 per 100,000 people, ... The states they passed through... have an average murder rate of 19.5 per 100,000 people..
The most dangerous major American city, St. Louis, has a murder rate of 66.1 per 100,000 – coming out worse than Honduras, [at 42.8 in 2017]
“If you are drowning, you grab for the nearest life preserver -- you don't pick and chose,” Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“If they are looking for stability and security, they would have stayed in the first place they got to in Mexico. In fact, 3,000 did stay there.” Mexico offered them temporary work permits and asylum..
The Obama administration allowed asylum for those fleeing gang violence, the Trump administration reversed that. ... it's unclear if immigration judges are consistently enforcing that new policy.
International law does allow countries to automatically reject asylum applicants if they have already passed through a safe country....
The European Court of Justice ruled that its member states should require migrants to apply for asylum in the first country the reach -- ...[snip]
Krikorian believes the real motivation of those coming to the U.S. is to partake in the United States' strong economy as well as education, health, and other government benefits.
“If we let the caravan in, then what do we have immigration limits for?” Krikorian asked. “Why don't we just let in everyone from the Eastern Congo, where things are much worse than in Central America?”.......
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The Honduras murder rate fell by more than 25 percent in 2017 - Reuters https://www.reuters.com/...honduras.../honduras-murder-rate-fell-by-more- than-25-percent-in-2017- to 42.8 killings per 100,000 people.
Shhhh! Don't give libs any ideas.
So true, if they get by with this, the ships will start coming from God-knows-where.
Savages with room-temperature IQ’s who populate far away places will be at the doorstep pounding to get in.
Lol
Cause an en masse trip on a ship from Congo to the US will be a breeze to pull off :)
It was a hypothetical.
Let’s not get crazy :)
Nothing hypothetical about it. We’ve had ship loads of hundreds of illegal migrants land here — from much further away.
“The most dangerous major American city, St. Louis, has a murder rate of 66.1 per 100,000...”
Worse than Chicago?
Congo is too small for the libs - they are looking at the entire Muslim world and the Chinese ...
The boundary lines of the cities have much to do with this. But, for the past 1/2 century, St. Louis & Detroit have battled for the #1 position as murder capitol of the USA.
Missouri tops the nation for high black homicide rate … again
By CHAD DAVIS • APR 23, 2018
St. Louis’ murder rate - The most dangerous cities in America ...
https://www.cbsnews.com
St. Louis has the highest murder rate in the nation. There were 60 homicides per 100000 St. Louis residents in 2016 — more than 10 times the national homicide rate ...
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-St.-Louis-Missouri.html
The violent crime rate in St. Louis is 99.1% higher than the average US city.
Huge population difference skews the numbers. St Louis 318,000 vs Chicago 2.7 million
“room temperature IQ’s” make good dem voters.
And there is the small city across the Mississippi River - EAST St. Louis, Illinois. One murder per 742 people.
East St. Louis High School boast a six-year graduation rate of 88%. The city stays afloat from the revenue of strip clubs.
They also have a murder rate 18 times that of the average American city making it THE most dangerous city in America-
Never- Ever cross the bridge outgoing from St. Louis!!
2017-The top 10 most dangerous cities per capita are as follows:
1. East St. Louis, Illinois
2. Darby Borough, Pennsylvania
3. Opa Locka, Florida
4. Florida City, Florida
5. Flint, Michigan
6. Detroit, Michigan
7. Saginaw City, Michigan
8. College Park, Georgia
9. Prichard, Alabama
10. West Memphis, Arkansas
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