Posted on 01/07/2025 5:44:58 PM PST by Libloather
A group of 100 migrants was recently dropped into the cartel-infested resort town of Acapulco as Mexican authorities break up caravans trying to reach the US before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The Mexican government has started rounding up and transporting caravan migrants to Acapulco to try to thwart their plans to make it to the US border before Trump’s vowed immigration crackdown — and threatened 25% tariffs against Mexico if the border crisis doesn’t abate, according to The Associated Press.
In recent years, the once-serene beaches of Acapulco, which had been popular with American tourists, have become choked with cartel members engaging in shootouts with rivals.
The coastal city, which was also decimated by Hurricane Otis in 2023, is now riddled with migrants sleeping in the streets, too.
The Mexican government has adopted the practice of “dispersion and exhaustion” to keep migrants from making their way north and accumulating in large numbers in one place, said Tonatiuh Guillén, former chief of Mexico’s immigration agency, to the AP.
The Mexican government is hoping that its efforts to help lower US border crossings will shield them from Trump’s tariff threats, Guillen said.
Trump doubled down Tuesday on the threat, saying he plans to order “very serious tariffs” on Mexico for “allowing millions of people to pour into our country.
“Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country,” the president-elect said. “They can stop them, and we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada, they come through Canada too, and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers.”
Venezuelan migrant Ender Antonio Castañeda, 28, told the AP that Mexican authorities left his group stranded in recent days in the crime-ridden beach town.
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They have the money to do q.
They have the money to do it. Sorry for the misspelling.
It’s nice, but not enough, that people who have been taking advantage of us for decades are finally feeling “jittery.”
“Immigration [officials] told us they were going to give us a permit to transit the country freely for 10, 15 days, and it wasn’t like that,” said a 28-year-old Venezuelan, Ender Antonio Castañeda.
“They left us dumped here without any way to get out,” he said from Acapulco. “They won’t sell us [bus] tickets, they won’t sell us anything.”
The level of entitlement from these lowlifes is staggering. Go the eff home scumbag.
I thought Acapulco was more tourist-infested than cartel-infested.
Things have changed
Venezuela is no longer a wealthy country because of commie scum like these pigs. They want to wreck somebody else’s home after crapping in theirs.
Next you realize what the effort was, whose efforts they were, and why they were up to it! Then you realize the lying hubris our federal government is run by. De-fund it all. After a year, come back to congress in regular order and explain yourselves. The problem with twelve agency appropriations bills, is that they can't even account for where the money has been spent for the last 14 years! Kinda hard to submit a budget request to congress at this point. It would take 10,000 highly skilled forensic accountants to accomplish that task in five years. So in order to ease that appropriations function back into congress, start over with job interviews, capping agencies at 10% of what spending levels were in 2024.
“Mehico can build it’s own wall.”
I suspect they have it already or, at a minimum, they are able to register every US-bound illegal that enters their country.
Their problem is that they have to answer to the US, so when the Globalists are in power and demand Mexico send up the caravans, they have no choice, even if they wanted to do otherwise.
We need a “”Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army”” 2.0.
Pronto.
Army 2.0——Yuppers!
Know how much sympathy you and your fellow criminals get from me? That's right--NONE. Get the heck outta my country, ASAP, you greedy pig who seeks a lifetime of sucking off the American taxpayer teat and showing utter arrogance of us and our laws.
Make Venezuela Great Again!
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“they have no choice, even if they wanted to do otherwise.”
And this is the case with all sorts of US whims across many countries. Its not usually understood, within the bubble of US domestic politics, that a lot of their (foreign countries) positions are directed by people in power in the US, usually for US domestic political reasons.
Almost all of them are simply victims, powerless poor people.
Venezuela has been run as a military dictatorship since Chavez’ day. Both Chavez and Maduro have lost elections but those don’t matter.
These days less tourists, more gangs.
And pre-Chavez the Venezuelan government was no great shakes either.
“the practice of ‘dispersion and exhaustion’”
Smart plan. Sounds like it’s effective.
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