Self-deportations. Factory layoffs. Military zones. How Trump is transforming the U.S.-Mexico border.

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 27, 2025 3 AM PT | Kate Linthicum

[doc maverick]

“Migrants no longer have any hope.”
Not OUR problem.
Rich Mexicans have been living high on the hog!
The US is no longer going to be their dumping ground.
It’s about time the rich Mexicans started coughing up their own money for a welfare/ medicaid/prison/insane asylum system instead of dumping their societal issues on the US taxpayers!

[tumblindice]

Go back to your own country, Paco.

[TalBlack]

“Migrants chasing the American dream crossed by the tens of thousands…”

They weren’t chasing the “American dream “ they were coming to suck up every cent they could that the Stupids were willing to give to them no questions asked.

[Regulator]

“the El Paso–Juárez corridor has fallen eerily quiet”

Which is the way it’s supposed to be

[MurrietaMadman]

No longer any need for the 'press 2 for Spanish' barrio then is there?

If the illegals are fleeing our Country, aren't those working here legally from south of the border just like the other foreign speaking workers who don't have their own language button yet somehow manage a call ok?

[Flavious_Maximus]

They can stand in line behind the other 5 billion people who LEGALLY want to come to the USA.

Notice in the article there is NO mention of migrants wanting to come to America to assimilate, learn English, be productive and become Americans! ALL they want is to leach off the US economic zone and convert America into the shithole country they left behind.

To them, the American dream means getting on welfare with free housing, free health benefits, food stamps and enough cash to send some to relatives back home.

The gravy train is over!

[ridesthemiles]

ARREST HIM FOR AIDING & ABETTING

[ro_dreaming]

Not migrants, ILLEGAL ALIENS, no longer have any hope.

Good. Go home.

[PhiloBedo]

Migrants = illegal aliens ……… in the propaganda piece

[KarlInOhio]

“Migrants no longer have any hope.”

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: One must have a heart of stone to read this without laughing.

Once a hub of migrant passage, the El Paso–Juárez corridor has fallen eerily quiet.

All quiet on the southern front.

[Maris Crane]

I can’t believe this CRAP.

A SOB STORY ABOUT THE BORDER??????

The exponentially stupid media expect some measure of sympathy after ALL we went through.

Those people need help desperately

[TLI]

“Across the Rio Grande from El Paso in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, shelters once hummed with life, rich with the smell of cooked stews and the chatter of people plotting their passage to the U.S.”

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How homie of them.

Such nostalgia for the good old days of Juan and Bon Qui Qui running packages for the cartel at 10, plotting to invade the US around steaming bowls of “cooked stew” at 15.

Ahh, the good times...

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[Lurker]

This is exactly what I voted for.

L

[NFHale]

“… Migrants no longer have any hope.”

Sure they do.

They can hope all they want in their own country.

[NFHale]

I voted for this too…

And I also voted for “lock her up”… and that looks like a real possibility too

[SuperLuminal]

“Migrants no longer have any hope.”

Who cares!
Just go back to where you came from and file legal immigration papers...

The American economy, culture, health system, and public safety have largely collapsed under the weight of 60-million migrant invaders who bring only disease, crime, and do not pay taxes...

GTFO!

[Mr Radical]

It's good to have it confirmed from the LA Times that Trump's policies are winning!
And some of it is quite funny: "Richard Osorio is now staying at the Oasis de Migrante shelter in Juárez. Osorio, who is from Venezuela, decided to leave the U.S. after his husband landed in immigrant detention."
I wonder if the star of this piece, Juan Ortíz *, actually exists; no photograph, not even a rear view shot as he sets out on his missions (hourly, daily?) across the dangerous desert with his heavy burden!
* (no age given, despite being told the ages of many of the other characters).

[miniTAX]

“a country can have a welfare state or open borders, but cannot have both”

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Not even true.
Welfare or not, a country can NOT have open borders. It’s an immutable fact long before welfare was invented.

[Freee-dame]

You are correct. A country with open borders is not even a country.