O'Rourke to visit Mexico to meet with asylum seekers (Pander 2020)

The Hill ^ | 06/30/19 | Rebecca Klar

[yesthatjallen]

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke will visit asylum seekers denied access to the U.S. during a visit to Mexico on Sunday, the former Texas congressman's campaign said.

O'Rourke will visit Ciudad Juárez and hopes to shed light on the individuals and families "directly impacted" by President Trump's "cruel and inhumane policies," according his campaign.

"In all of the debate around immigration, we can't forget who it impacts most: the people traveling thousands of miles, fleeing the worst kind of violence and oppression," O'Rourke said in a statement. "Turning away refugees, families and asylum seekers is not who we are as a country. But as long as Donald Trump is president -- it will be."

O'Rourke, who represented a border district, released an immigration plan earlier this year that calls to end family separation, reunite those already separated and create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

O'Rourke's immigration proposal fails to go as far as other candidates, notably fellow Texas Democrat Julián Castro, in calling to decriminalize the borders.

O'Rourke's planned trip to Mexico marks the first foreign trip by a presidential candidate this election. He is also scheduled to visit a Border Patrol facility on Sunday in Clint, Texas, where poor conditions for migrant children have been reported.

Immigration has been a key issue in the election, as Trump has kept it in the spotlight with this threats of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and reports of unsanitary conditions at border facilities under his administration.

Several candidates, including O'Rourke, visited a child migrant detention center in Homestead, Fla. last week while in Miami for the first debates.

[P-Marlowe]

Hopefully some Coyote will put 20 pounds of cocaine in his luggage.

[P-Marlowe]

If it were closer to the election, he would be passing out absentee ballots.

[redshawk]

Cancel his passport while he’s gone. --- Ya beat me to it.😃

[leaning conservative]

This is an excellent post. It encapsulates everything I’ve thought. And it’s scary because I agree with you.

Be to is a clown who truly believes he’s: devastatingly sexy/handsome, brilliant, one with the “people”, and the one. He is none of those things & to be honest I would not be surprised if his fellow candidates snicker at him behind his back.

[Flick Lives]

O’Rourke to visit Mexico to meet with asylum seekers .

Any chance to get the Beaners to keep him?

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Why would they want some Irish dude?

[EEGator]

Collusion!

[thinden]

suppose beta will interview any of the congolese ebola carriers?

how bout the somalian or afghani invaders?

[Sacajaweau]

Aren’t there like rules about colluding with a foreign country?

[Redwood71]

I guess I don’t understand. He’s going to Mexico, to visit with people that are not American citizens he is supposed to represent, that are seeking asylum in the US from their own country they allowed to mess up and ran from so they wouldn’t have to fix it, while standing on the ground of a country that has an asylum program.

I’m confused by this.

rwood

[Liz]

Circa 2016--Congressional delegation in Mexico ---Nanzi totters on her high heels.

Beto O'Rourke's upcoming trip to Mexico is billed as the first foreign trip by a presidential candidate this election.

Beto was also in Mexico sucking up votes as a Senate candidate.

A 2016 Congressional delegation to Mexico on the taxpayers' dime led by Speaker Pelosi included suckup Democrat Reps:
<><> Norma Torres, Lucille Roybal-Allard,
<><> Pete Aguilar and Linda Sanchez (Calif.);
<><> Senate candidate then-Cong Beto O'Rourke and Henry Cuellar (Texas);
<><> Ruben Gallego (Ariz.); Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.).

SCHADENFREUD Beto sucked-up bigtime for latino votes....but still lost his Texas race against Cruz.

[TADSLOS]

Is he going as a man or woman? A Mexican or an Irishman? A drunk or a druggie? A burglar or a con artist?

[Liz]

LOL......good one. Maybe he’ll try the whole kit and kaboodle.

[Bob434]

can we shut the door and not let him back in?

[Lean-Right]

He’ll be handing out toothbrushes
and bars of soap embossed with
“votar para Beto”.

[Don Corleone]

Trying to claw his way back into relevance.

[unixfox]

Maybe we will get lucky and he gets kidnapped by the cartels.

[cableguymn]

I heard it comes pre-installed on a obama phone

[cableguymn]

2 pounds of fentanyl will do the trick

[4Liberty]

[Gargantua]

"...O'Rourke to visit Mexico to meet with future illegal voting base."

I believe the official term for this is "Hispandering."

LOL