EmilyD wrote:
These Central American people did not just all of a sudden decide together (thousands of them) that they were going to up and walk through the whole country of Mexico (where they could have, and should have, asked for asylum) to the US border. Someone organized it. The people were promised all kinds of nice, free things in America if they paid a price and joined a caravan. AND they were told that the best way to do it was to say they fear for their lives and claim asylum, and there's nothing the US can do but let them in, feed, clothe, cure and educate them at the cost of regular tax-paying Americans. And they were told that if they do this in large numbers, it would overwhelm the border patrol, and there would be chaos, and they could then force their way in. These people, and many more of them, are being coached, and it has to stop. Needy, my arse.
There aren't one or two caravans - there are many - and this has been going on way longer than when Trump was President. Someone (or someones) with a great deal of money and who hates Trump has escalated the size and amount of these carvans since the election and the drug cartels are taking advantage of this situation, too. So YES, it has now become a crisis and a national emergency because of that hatred.
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How much of the trump BS can you guys absorb?? It has to be an amazing amount..
You lose your own honor, if you had any, when you accept the orange cloud of lies and hate from the disgusting POS you put in our white house..
don`t believe me? Padre Mike posted that no country has done as much for the rest of the worlds wellbeing as the United States... I agree with him..
So why do you people allow so much fear in your lives that you want to end that wonderful part of our history?
A little point of the truth....
Follow the link and read the article it is long but revealing..
From last summer, but still timely..
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-07-10/mexico-faces-its-own-surge-of-refugees-entering-the-countryWhile many Salvadorans head to the United States, Cashpal has stayed here in Mexico, where she has begun the process of applying for refugee status. She says the family members had no money to travel further and are concerned about the reports of harsh treatment of refugees by U.S. authorities.
Their application is one of a surging number in Mexico amid criminal violence and political turmoil in several countries across Latin America. In 2017, there were more than 14,000 refugee claims in Mexico, up from 2,000 in 2014, according to the United Nations refugee agency, or UNHCR. This year there will likely be more still, says a Mexican official who handles the requests and spoke on condition of anonymity.
President Donald Trump has complained that Mexico is not doing enough to stop the wave of people heading through its territory toward the Rio Grande. "Mexico does nothing for us," he said during a recent meeting of his Cabinet. "They encourage people, frankly, to walk through Mexico and go into the United States."
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By taking on thousands of refugees, however, Mexico is relieving the burden on the overloaded U.S. courts. Mexico also detains large numbers of undocumented Central Americans who are not applying for refugee status here, and deports them back to their home countries. In fiscal year 2017, Mexico deported more than 94,000 Central Americans – even more than the 74,000 deported from the United States in the same time, according to figures from the Migration Policy Institute cited by the newspaper Reforma.
Violence by gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha drives many of the refugees from their homes in Central America's Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. But there has also been a wave of political turmoil, with bloody crackdowns on protesters in Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela over the past year. The top source countries of refugees arriving in Mexico are now Honduras, followed by Venezuela and then El Salvador, according to the UNHCR.