woodguru wrote:
...but monkeys could fly if they had wings, there's no proof they do, but there could be and if they did they could.
This is how frigging stupid this president is starting to sound.
There could be MS-13 members or ISIS in the caravans. There's no proof there is, there's no proof of anything, but there could be.
You own this fool...
Now that you've thrown your little hissy fit, I'm going to try to help you out here. Probably a futile effort, but let's shine a bit of reality on this.
There are several hundred drug cartels and drug smuggling operations throughout Mexico, Central America, and the northern countries in South America. Since the coup in 2009, Honduras has been a battleground between the Zeta and Pacific cartels operating out of Belize and El Salvador. Honduras is the point of arrival for drugs from Colombia, Venezuela, and Bolivia. Guatemala has become a “bottleneck” through which 90 percent of the cocaine brought by Mexican cartels to the US passes. There are an estimated half million men and women working in the drug smuggling cartels in Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, El Salvador and Mexico.
The criminal gang, MS-13, was formed in Los Angeles in 1980 by El Salvadorans. The gang expanded throughout the US, Mexico and Central America. MS-13 is involved in human trafficking, smuggling illegals into the US, and some drug activity. Many MS-13 members have been arrested and deported. MS-13 "coyotes" are active in Mexico.
Islamic terror groups are constantly seeking new ways to fund their organizations. When private funding and donations began to dry up, many of these groups turned to lucrative criminal activities, primarily drug and human trafficking. Research and investigations into Iranian and Hezbollah penetration of Latin America revealed that Hezbollah now plays a central role in drug and human trafficking, gun running, illicit cigarette trade, trade-based money laundering, and terror financing.
Hezbollah’s infrastructure and activities are an integral part of a comprehensive and long-term strategy to export Iran’s Islamic Revolution to the Western Hemisphere and establish forward operating bases to be used against the United States. Corrupt political elites in Latin America have given these terror groups safe haven in which to operate. Moreover, the terrorists quickly realized they had a promising pool of recruits. Young unemployed Latino men LOOKING FOR JOBS and some already engaged in criminal activity were willing and able to either train as terrorists or to work in smuggling and trafficking activities.
Now, take a look at the exodus from the Latin American shitholes. Massed in three groups, 14,000 and growing, and among them are a high number of young men. Even if they wanted to, it is virtually impossible for the Honduran, Guatemalan and Mexican police to identify any of these people, let alone run background checks, the police cannot run searches on all the baggage, bundles, backpacks, baby carriages, and carts.
So, yeah, there is no proof that drug runners, criminals, MS-13 members or militant Muslims are in the caravans, but there could be.