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Haitian migrants are sent detailed instructions on WhatsApp and social media which help them cross border into Texas
2021-09-24
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The situation in Del Rio spiraled this week as more than 15,000 migrants, many of them from Haiti, arrived at the US-Mexico border in Texas

  • Migrants have been settling in a makeshift camp as they waited for Control Border Patrol agents to process their petitions to stay in the U.S.

  • Some Haitian migrants followed detailed instructions sent to them via WhatsApp from fellow compatriots who had recently taken the route to the Texas border

  • WhatsApp and other social media platforms are used to share information that can get distorted as it speeds through communities, directing migration flows

  • Fabricio Jean, of Haiti, 38m followed detailed instructions sent to him, his wife and two kids via WhatsApp that said he needed '20,000 pesos' to take buses

  • Jean and his family didn't envisage to find thousands of Haitian migrants like himself crossing at the same remote spot near Del Rio, Texas
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  Who's manipulating this madness?
To what end?

From the article linked, above:

Todd Bensman of CIS did what virtually no member of the media has done—excepting one Los Angeles Times reporter I’m aware of—and crossed into Ciudad Acuña to talk to directly to the migrants on the Mexican side. What he found was surprising, and shocking. The Haitians reported that they, longtime residents of Mexico, were abruptly released by Mexican authorities to proceed north and cross into the United States in mid-September. The reason given: a gift in celebration of Mexican Independence Day. So they did—by the thousands.

Someone orchestrated this.

Who? To what end? These are questions a press corps competent to its putative purpose might pursue. These are questions to which a government genuinely concerned with the welfare and sovereignty of the United States might demand answers—and accountability. Neither media nor the federal government will do anything like that. We are left to ask it ourselves, and we start with the understanding that if Bensman’s account is accurate, then the Haitian incursion and encampment, stupendous and alarming as it is, is not the real crisis. Don’t misunderstand me: it’s a crisis in full, but it’s a crisis covering for something else.

It’s a feint.

A feint for what? Here we must speculate. At dusk I stand on Border Patrol Hill, where the Border Patrol has not set foot in a year, and I see the dozens of vehicles waiting to cross. They will cross, and they will succeed, because they are unopposed. Perhaps the Haitian influx is a feint to that end: a cartel operation leveraging the apparatus of Mexican governance that is increasingly in its thrall. Perhaps the Haitian influx is a feint for something else. Perhaps, on the other side of the border, there is a strategic mind at work—it would not have to be a particularly advanced strategic mind to perplex and outwit our federal leadership—and he is seeing what the Americans have to bring to bear. If that’s the case, then I’ll tell you one thing that mind has already learned: our leaders prioritize optics and symptoms over substance and causes.

The Haitians are pawns on the chessboard. They aren’t even close to the only migrants out here.
Posted by: Failed Stater334556712    2021-09-24 22:53  

#6  This guy knows how to turn a phrase. Beautifully done, and well said.

America Resembles a Failed State
Posted by: Failed Stater334556712    2021-09-24 22:45  

#5  Le Camp des Saints -- a l'Americain
Posted by: Jean Respail   2021-09-24 22:40  

#4  They are utterly destitute immigrants invaders who have cell phones.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-09-24 22:30  

#3  EXCLUSIVE: Better than living under a bridge: Inside the ramshackle refugee camps in Chile where thousands of Haitians lived before marching to US border to camp in fetid conditions under Del Rio bridge
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-24 09:16  

#2  DHS chief finally ADMITS that up to 2,000 Haitian migrants have been released into the US - but fails to address where up to 3,000 missing migrants are located
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-24 09:13  

#1  Afghan migrant truth is leaking out. Reports surfacing from the vicinity of Camp Atterbury, Indiana indicate things not going well. Food and med shortages, shortages of workers and volunteers. Migrants walking off campus. Urgent calls to local churches and charities for clothing. Media restrictions.

Cold weather coming. This may get very interesting.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-24 07:16  

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