are you so dense, or simply do not watch news???

They are escaping the gangs and k*****gs in central America. while they are criminal gangs. the result is the same or worst then a civil war.

they come via Mexico by paying bribes or just being hidden..


If you could stay in Mexico but would have to circumvent there laws or go on and take a chance to get into the USA, which would you do??

I do not know the Mexican law so other then that, i have no idea.. But I do not see any mystery choosing Mexico or the USA..

Why do you keep harping about point of entry???

Do you think these people seeking asylum are out in the desert some where waving down the BP so they can ask for that Asylum??

The caravan which much ado was made some weeks ago dropped its people off at San Diego.. one of the largest border point of entry...

Maybe called San something but is is by San Diego.....

One more time, Obama and even Bush rejected the family separation as inhuman.. they considered but only trump has made it a policy..

He is after money for his wall..

for dumb.... would you take in one person for one night under any circumstance? I know you would not..

No, I would not volunteer to take in a family of five..

But I would much rather my money went to help out these people who may be running for their lives then simply give my money to the already very rich which the orange S*** decreed with his tax gift..

the law is the same now as under bush, who changed it to this version, and under Obama. neither used this tactic..

This is all on the orange fart.. trump and miller and other Hench men are using it to try and force congress to fund the dam wall.

Asylum has to be determined case by case.. No law against asking for it.. but trump is having the arrested and locked up, the kids put in another facility..

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/01/why_arent_the_democrats_horrified_by_the_corruption_at_the_fbi_and_doj.html

Trump's victory was devastating to the egos of our liberal friends. In their minds since everyone they personally knew h**ed Trump, he could not have possibly won with out c***ting in some way. The Russian Collusion lie is not only a way to overturn a legal e******n, it is a way for them to keep their sanity. That sanity is precariously balanced on a knife's edge.

Trump's victory was America rejecting their policies and ideas. No jilted lover ever felt pain like they are feeling. Pain eventually turns to anger, then rage. Either it burns itself out or it consumes the soul. Assuming one has a Soul.

Take a look at this.~~ more at the staggering amounts involved coupled with us paying out over 130 billion, out yearly just to house and feed them.. Heck it's no dang wonder we’re in debt....

Yes, I know I’m going to get shot down over this but~~~C’est la vie, as the saying goes....
They don’t really want to be legal here.. They take the benefits we offer them while they work sending their earnings back to their family.. Last I posted on this some time ago Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean are sending more money to their families back home than ever before....

These annual "remittances"as they're called by analysts topped $69 billion in 2016..40% of this money went to Mexico, then Honduras etc.

Anchor babies by any minority and here illegally should not be given automatic citizenship., Loki I believe, commented on this as well.. He is right too! As you are with the many posts of yours I have read...

This dang open armed policy is over and we need to make it clear it is... Let them go to other countries.. We have taken in far more than any other country.. Let the do nothing UN do something about it...

https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers

The Northern Triangle Reality and U.S. Response
The Northern Triangle region of Central America includes the small, but strikingly violent countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala (Figure 1). Honduras has been recognized as the murder capital of the world for many years, with its homicide rate peaking in 2011 at 91.6 murders per 100,000 people. In 2014, that rate dropped to 66, but remains one of the highest for a non-war zone country. By 2012-13, the rates for Guatemala and El Salvador had dropped as well, but only in Guatemala did this trend of reduced violence continue into 2014-15. Though our United Nations homicide data end in 2013, more recent data from 2015 indicates that homicide rates in Guatemala have remained steady, but have more than doubled in El Salvador. After the late 2013 breakdown of a truce between the country’s two most powerful gangs (MS-13 and Barrio 18), homicide rates increased dramatically, reaching an all-time high of 104 murders per 100,000 people in 2015. Not surprisingly, research on the causes of migration from this region increasingly finds these high levels of crime and violence as a primary push factor in Central American migration.

Homicide statistics are just one measure of the pervasive violence in many marginalized communities in all three countries. Extortion is also widespread. Data compiled by the Honduran daily La Prensa revealed that Salvadorans pay an estimated US$400 million a year in extortion fees, while Hondurans pay around $200 million and Guatemalans an estimated $61 million. Small businesses, the public t***sport sector, and poor neighborhoods are the most heavily hit. A 2013 report revealed that 70 percent of small businesses in El Salvador are victims of extortion. According to a Guatemalan human rights organization, between January and July of 2014, at least 700 people had been k**led for failing to pay extortion fees.
2. People are fleeing community-level violence, which is often personal and direct. They face real and specific threats from street gangs, extortionists, drug traffickers, and from domestic abuse, and so may be potential targets if returned. In many poor and marginalized communities in all three countries, women and children are victims of extortion, abuse, rape, murder, and gang-related violence. In many of these communities, citizens face explicit threats on their lives for reasons that may include bearing witness to a crime, attempting to leave a gang, or failing to pay an extortion fee or war tax. A 2015 report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found that women in particular face a “startling” degree of violence in the Northern Triangle and Mexico, including rape, assault, extortion, and threats by armed criminal groups. Sixty-four percent of women interviewed for the study cited targeted threats or attacks as one of their primary motivations for leaving their communities.
Although there are no official records of how many deported migrants have been k**led upon return to their home countries, one study has estimated that over 80 returnees have been murdered in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras since January 2014. A recent article published in The Guardian profiled three cases of returned migrants who were murdered shortly after being deported from the United States, one only days after his arrival. A short op-doc produced by the New York Times chronicling the journey of several unaccompanied children from Honduras described the endemic violence as a key factor in many minors’ decision to make the risky journey north.
3. These individuals have nowhere to turn for protection if they are sent back. Countries of the Northern Triangle are not providing security for their citizens. Victims of violence, extortion, sexual abuse, and death threats rarely find protection from the authorities. In fact, many victims fear the police as much as the criminals. In the Northern Triangle countries, rule of law and law enforcement institutions are weak and corrupted. The majority of police forces are underfunded, plagued by poor leadership, and sometimes complicit in criminal activity.
In El Salvador, growing concerns of reports of police and security force involvement in extrajudicial k*****gs and human rights abuses are troubling. Among the Northern Triangle countries as a whole, the statistics on criminal investigation and prosecution are appalling: only five percent of homicide cases lead to a conviction in the region. Given this context, it is not surprising that women, children, and youth consider fleeing their communities in search of safety and protection.
4. The dangers people are fleeing are documented in skyrocketing requests for asylum or other forms of protection from citizens of the Northern Triangle, not just in the United States but in other countries of the region. It is not illegal to cross international borders to seek asylum. While the United States continues to be a primary destination, the countries neighboring the Northern Triangle, including Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, and Nicaragua, have seen requests for asylum from citizens of these countries increase by almost 1,200 percent from 2008 to 2014. Between 2008 and August 2015, Costa Rica alone saw a sixteen-fold increase in asylum requests from the Northern Triangle countries. Request for asylum in Mexico, primarily from Northern Triangle countries, have more than doubled since 2013. In a further illustration that fear and insecurity are driving migration and requests for asylum and protection, a UNHCR analysis of credible fear screenings carried out by U.S. asylum officers found that in 2015, 82 percent of the women from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico who were screened on arrival at the U.S. border “to have a significant possibility of establishing eligibility for asylum or protection under the Convention against Torture.”
Of course, the decision to migrate is a complicated one, and a variety of factors– especially economic insecurity and family situation–play into the decision. But there can be little doubt that violence and insecurity are major drivers in the decision of a growing number of Northern Triangle citizens to leave their country in search of protection.
5. While there has been an increase in Central American migrants, especially women, children, and families, overall migration at the United States’ southern border is low, and there is no migration crisis at our border. While headlines about Central Americans’ flight from violence may leave the other impression, the fact is overall migration to the United States through the southern border has plummeted in recent years. There is simply no crisis of illegal border-crossing to justify the recent deportation policy. In fiscal year 2015, Border Patrol apprehended 331,313 people at the U.S.-Mexico border. That is the second fewest of any year since 1972, and the number of Mexican citizens apprehended (186,017) is the lowest since 1970. (In 2000 Border Patrol, with less than half as many agents as 2015, apprehended over 1.6 million Mexicans.)
https://www.wola.org/analysis/five-facts-about-migration-from-central-americas-northern-triangle/