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Caribbean-Latin America
Here Comes The Next Caravan
2019-01-12
[Hot Air] Either they don’t get much news out of the United States and Mexico down in Central America or they don’t pay much attention to it if they do. Mexican officials are currently heading to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to talk to the organizers of yet another migrant caravan that’s forming up to head north toward the United States. Given the number of people who are currently lined up and waiting for weeks or months for an asylum hearing, dumping hundreds or thousands more into the queue is only going to inflame matters further. (Reuters)
Mexican authorities will meet with Central American officials to prepare for the arrival of a planned new caravan of migrants headed to the United States next week.

The head of Mexico’s immigration office, Tonatiuh Guillen, left on Wednesday on a trip to El Salvador and Honduras to meet with his counterparts and other authorities, said Interior Ministry spokesman Hector Gandini.

Mexico hopes to discourage a mass exodus from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and wants Central Americans who decide to migrate north to do so in an orderly way and through legal ports of entry.
This is shaping up to be the first serious test of AMLO’s new government and their resolve to put an end to mass illegal immigration. Just this week, Mexican officials announced that they were deploying large numbers of federal troops to nearly 300 common border crossing points in an effort to stem the tide. But if this new caravan is anywhere near the size of the last one they could easily overwhelm the border security forces.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  A good arclight strike would end this nonsense in one go. Is it mean? Yes, but it'll stop these people from invading the country.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-01-12 17:02  

#9  Mexico has finally awakened to the fact they're not a turnstile any more. They'll be stuck with the campesinos for some time. Costs, security, bad publicity. Expect them to be our first wall soon
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-12 16:53  

#8  Mexacos souther border isnt all that big - how about we secure it for them, Barbed Wire, claymores, maybe even test out those robodogs we keep seeing videos of.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-01-12 13:53  

#7  SteveS, VDH recently wrote a piece that attempts to answer your question.

The Ironies of Illegal Immigration
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-12 13:29  

#6  It isn't 2.0. This bullshit started with Baraq. Remember the Children's Caravan? Baraq encouraged it and then he let all those people into the country, even the MS-13 guys who claimed to be children. Separated those kiddies from their families, he did. This is Caravan 3.0 at least.

Cut off all foreign aid to all of the countries involved. Bring our ambassadors to those countries home and expel their ambassadors to our country. Hell, declare war on them. That's what they're doing to us.

This is why I was so pissed off when Nancy Pelosi claimed the other night in her rebuttal to Trump's speech that "We all recognize the need for border security." She lied bigger than shit. If that was true, there would be no caravans. If Democrats didn't encourage these caravans, they wouldn't happen. Nancy wants open borders so all of those people can walk right into this country, no questions asked.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-12 13:05  

#5  ...heh.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-12 11:15  

#4  Meanwhile, in Texas news, the facility that detained 2,600 undocumented children, has been emptied, placing all the minors with their parents/relatives/traffickers.

So there is space!
Posted by: Bobby   2019-01-12 11:06  

#3  Gonna be bad optics for the Dem's narrative. Suspiciously convenient for the President though, eh? Maybe Comey should forget the Russians and start investigating Honduran collusion.

The part I don't get is that, as we learned in college, America is the most awfulest, evilest country in the history of the world. So why are these noble brown-skinned people trying to get in? They can't all have read "The Camp of Saints".
Posted by: SteveS   2019-01-12 11:04  

#2  The caravan marchers 2.0 know that enough invaders from 1.0 got through to make it worthwhile.
Posted by: Slats Greart4203   2019-01-12 10:54  

#1  As their advance party reaches the border, close all border crossings and declare the national emergency.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-12 09:27  

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