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2014-07-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

USA: UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Mexican train derails, stranding 1,300 migrants headed toward U.S.
(Reuters) - A cargo train used by Mexicans and Central Americans to travel toward the U.S. border derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Wednesday, stranding about 1,300 migrants, emergency services said.

Many of the migrants aboard were young people and nobody was injured when the train nicknamed "the Beast" came off the tracks, a spokesman for local emergency services said.

Since last October, more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors, most from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, have been caught illegally crossing the southwest border of the United States.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-10 00:23|| 2014-07-10 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Where's the outrage, reserved for a derailed oil or coal train, about this event spilling 1300 kiddies all over the landscape, obviously spoiling the land....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-07-10 00:31|| 2014-07-10 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 "Outrage? UN needs no stinkin' outrage!"

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-10 00:41|| 2014-07-10 00:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Refuges usually involve people who want to 'go back home'. If they're refugees, let's classify them properly as victims of ethnic cleansing because their (purer Spanish blood) ruling caste needs to unload mestizos y indios to avoid reform or revolution.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-10 07:48|| 2014-07-10 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Regardless of what is done with these people, children, etc, we're missing an identification opportunity if we're not doing Biometrics [facial/DNA] on these illegal and feeding it into a central database.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-10 09:09|| 2014-07-10 09:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Mexican Authorities have been bought off - by the coyotes, cartels, or Obama,

or all three

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-10 10:57|| 2014-07-10 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The first order of business ought to be to send several plane loads back to where ever they came from. The word will get out and the flow will start to be stemmed. Push Mexico hard to stop allowing them to pass through. Strengthen security at the border with a physical fence or a virtual electronic fence or whatever it takes to stem this tide. Both parties need to quit worrying about getting the Latino vote--do what's right for the country for a change. Obey the laws of the country. Start by getting rid of Holder as AG. He's got to be the worst we have ever had.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-10 11:46|| 2014-07-10 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 No, JohnQC. You have to start by getting rid of Baraq Hussein as president. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening any time soon but with any luck we can turn the Senate against him in November.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-07-10 13:23|| 2014-07-10 13:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't see that happening. The votes are not there. Let's see what happens in the House and Senate in 2014. Maybe there will be a glimmer of good that comes about from these elections.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-10 16:42|| 2014-07-10 16:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Procopius hits nail on head. Have heard "white Mexicans" (that's what they call themselves here in Tucson) repeat the same meme.

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-10 21:00|| 2014-07-10 21:00|| Front Page Top

#11 The same network of Mexican Liberation Theology people who smuggled central Americans during the 1980s are doing the same thing now. Wonder why MS-13 has an international reach? It's because of those people.

Slip Enrique Pena an extra $50 million and tell them to jail the members of the network, and northbound illegal immigration would stop in 24 hours.

Kill them and immigration would stay stopped for a generation.

Posted by badanov 2014-07-10 21:07|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-07-10 21:07|| Front Page Top

#12 First Lady of Guatemala said today the people are not fleeing anything.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-10 22:04|| 2014-07-10 22:04|| Front Page Top

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