So posting a sad bigoted meme that depicts the left as a P-hat wearing poorly groomed dude with a boar sized anti rooting snout ring and african plug style earlobe piercings in his best tee shirt glaring about a horrendous vile family separating border policy... And a brown skined child crying that she lost her parents (because that's funny) who is also depicted with no front teeth and a twisted up lower lip to make her somehow less perfect... Then it delivers the gist of the story falsely depicting that the left splits families up over using plastic straws and not being environmentally friendly (a horrible thing to promote?) so it's really the left who is bad... and you find truth in that? sad.
So posting a sad bigoted meme that depicts the left as a P-hat wearing poorly groomed dude with a boar sized anti rooting snout ring and african plug style earlobe piercings in his best tee shirt glaring about a horrendous vile family separating border policy... And a brown skined child crying that she lost her parents (because that's funny) who is also depicted with no front teeth and a twisted up lower lip to make her somehow less perfect... Then it delivers the gist of the story falsely depicting that the left splits families up over using plastic straws and not being environmentally friendly (a horrible thing to promote?) so it's really the left who is bad... and you find truth in that? sad.
So posting a sad bigoted meme that depicts the left as a P-hat wearing poorly groomed dude with a boar sized anti rooting snout ring and african plug style earlobe piercings in his best tee shirt glaring about a horrendous vile family separating border policy... And a brown skined child crying that she lost her parents (because that's funny) who is also depicted with no front teeth and a twisted up lower lip to make her somehow less perfect... Then it delivers the gist of the story falsely depicting that the left splits families up over using plastic straws and not being environmentally friendly (a horrible thing to promote?) so it's really the left who is bad... and you find truth in that? sad.
The Kids Trump separated to be sure they weren't being bought and sold or the Kids Obama locked in cages?
How deplorable, you’re proud that Trump separated thousands of innocent young children and babies from their families to shut down a human trafficker or two with no known evidence of that at all. Thought you guys were down with the innocent to proven guilty thingy? Oooops my bad, wrong color, must be guilty, lock em up.
Nearly 20,000 victims are sold and trafficked each year. This number includes the victims who are as young as 5 and 6 years of age. According to UNICEF every two minutes a child is being prepared for sexual exploitation. 1.2 million children alone are being trafficked every year.
How despicable that you refer to these kids as but a few!
Hundreds of migrants who reportedly have broken away from the caravan moving through Guatemala are now said to be at that country’s border with Mexico, just hours after President Trump issued a warning that he may ask the military to get involved if officials there can’t “stop this onslaught.”
A migrant shelter in Tecun Uman on the Guatemalan side of the border reported Thursday that hundreds of Hondurans from the caravan of about 4,000 have already made it there, according to the Associated Press.
The rest reportedly are hours behind in Guatemala City as the caravan appeared to be dispersing in some parts. Migrants are hopping on buses and hitching rides instead of journeying northward on foot – but it’s unclear whether those who have made it the farthest will try to enter Mexico immediately or wait for others so they can attempt a mass crossing.
Videos circulating on social media purportedly showed hundreds of the migrants – many wearing backpacks – walking on foot in the Mexico-Guatemala border town. In that area, only the Suchiate River and a pair of bridges separate Mexico and Guatemala.
Mexico already has sent police to the border to meet the migrants and have said anyone with travel documents and the correct visa will be allowed to pass, while some others in the group can apply for refugee status. But officials also cautioned that those who try to cross in an “irregular manner” could be detained and deported, according to the Associated Press.
The AP added this morning that none of the migrants its reporters spoke to were carrying passports, which all but assures a high-stakes showdown with Mexican border officials in the coming hours and days.
A showdown which, according to Trump, could become a matter for the U.S. military if Mexico can’t stop the caravan.
“In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” Trump tweeted Thursday morning.
Trump's latest threat against the caravan -- which originated in Honduras and is bound for the U.S. in a bid to escape pervasive poverty and violence – comes as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Central America to discuss the issue.
“I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this large flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, from entering Mexico to U.S.,” Trump wrote in another tweet.
One member of the caravan, Henry Tejeda, told the AP he left his wife and four children to join the group due to increasing violence in Honduras, where he said his mother was murdered four years ago and his brother was shot.
The well-traveled Pompeo – fresh off a high-profile Middle East jaunt during which he met with leaders from Saudi Arabia and Turkey regarding the disappearance of activist Jamal Khashoggi – is now scheduled to head to Panama City on Thursday and Mexico City on Friday.
He will meet with the presidents of both countries to “discuss our ongoing security cooperation efforts to disrupt the illicit movement of cash, weapons, drugs across our shared border as well as the issue of stemming illegal immigration and strengthening accountability for corruption and human rights abuses, and bringing members of transnational criminal organizations to justice,” a senior State Department official said.
The migrant caravan will be a “prominent” topic of discussion, too, the official said.
“Certainly it’s an issue that we have viewed as a shared challenge and we continue to work closely with countries in the region to address the underlying economic, security, and governance conditions that have driven illegal immigration to the United States,” the official added.
Since 2015, the U.S. government has sent more than $2.6 billion in foreign assistance to the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Trump has repeatedly threatened to cut off that aid if the mass migration continues.
The caravan set off last Friday from San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second-largest city and a place widely considered to be one of most dangerous in the world when judged by homicide rate. At its start, the group consisted of about 160 people, according to an AP estimate.
Border Patrol agents arrested 16,658 family members in September, the highest one-month total on record and an 80 percent increase from July, according to unpublished Department of Homeland Security statistics obtained by The Washington Post.
Record number of families crossing U.S. border as Trump threatens new crackdown
interesting. appears trump has no idea how to actually handle the border.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
US, Mexico agree on plan to handle migrant caravan from Central America
U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on a plan to handle the approaching migrant caravan making their way up from Central America, a senior administration official told Fox News on Thursday.
Under the deal, which was developed over the course of several months, Mexico will request that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) establish shelters along its southern border with Central America, the official said.
If an individual manages to evade the new system and travels through Mexico to eventually cross the border into the U.S., Mexico will now allow those persons to be returned to Mexico, the official told Fox News. Currently, the U.S. has had to house those people until their cases could be adjudicated before being removed to their country of origin.
At the established shelters, U.N. officials will vet the refugees to decide which ones have legitimate claims for refugee status, the official told Fox News.
If a person or persons is determined to have a legitimate claim, they will undergo a U.N. process of being placed in a host country, which could ultimately be the U.S. or any other country that has an agreement with the UNHCR, the official said.
U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on a plan to handle the approaching migrant caravan making their way up from Central America, a senior administration official told Fox News on Thursday.
Except that has nothing to do with the numbers being up under trump.
He owns a one month record. All time.
Oh yeah, still no wall, and Mexico hasn’t cut the check yet.
So yea, he doesn’t know how to handle the border. But he knows how to golf and stay on the campaign trail.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
I just saw on the News where a few dozen people from the caravan got across the Mexican border when Mexican Authorities drove the rest back with tear gas.
As thousands of Central American men, women and children travel en masse to the Mexican border to escape extreme violence in their homelands, many are doing so knowing the lengthy trip holds hidden dangers that could be fatal for their families.
he collective migration – made mostly on foot, hitchhiking or crammed on top of buses – is at best tiresome. People are weak, get little sleep, food or water and their futures are unknown. But humanitarian workers on the ground as well as immigration advocates say the lengthy journey also puts migrants at risk of rape, violence and other acts of torture.
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“It’s unspeakable,” immigration lawyer Matthew Kolken told Fox News. “In this day and age, we don’t allow our children to walk to school alone… The actors that are smuggling individuals are unscrupulous. They take advantage of them. Women are subjected to sexual assault and rape. Children too.”
Kolken says criminals sometimes embed themselves in migrant caravans and target unsuspecting individuals.
“(Criminals) have infrastructure that is built up already and are put into place inside the caravans,” he said.
David Leopold, chairman of the Immigration Law Group, says despite reports of migrants marching and singing the Honduran national anthem as they make their way to Mexico, the trek out of Central America isn’t a “fun ride” but one filled with unimaginable abuse directed at women and children.
“The trip is awful,” Leopold told Fox. “(Migrants) are susceptible to crime. Women get raped, children are in danger. It’s not simply sitting on a bus and it’s not a fun ride.”
Leopold also pushes back on President Trump targeting caravans and says the United States needs to get to the root of the problem to make a sustainable impact on illegal immigration.
“The U.S. ought to take responsibility,” he said. “If we want to keep our borders secure… then the country needs to invest in these countries. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras… we need to make sure that the root causes are solved.”
The Central American caravan on Friday broke through a Guatemalan border fence and streamed by the thousands toward Mexican territory, defying Mexican authorities' entreaties for an orderly migration and Trump's threats of retaliation.
Arriving on the Mexican side of a border bridge, they were met by a phalanx of police with riot shields. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated.
The gates were closed again, and a federal police officer used a loudspeaker to address the masses, saying, "We need you to stop the aggression."
Waving Honduran flags and carrying umbrellas to protect against the sun, the migrants arrived earlier at the Guatemalan side of the muddy Suchiate River that divides the country from Mexico, noisily demanding they be let in.
"One way or another, we will pass," they chanted, clambering atop U.S.-donated military jeeps parked at the scene as Guatemalan police looked on.
Young men began tugging on the fencing and finally succeeded in tearing it down, and men, women and children rushed through and toward the border bridge just up the road.
Edwin Santos of San Pedro Sula was one of the first to race past helpless Guatemalan police, clutching the hands of his father and wife.
"We are going to the United States!" he shouted euphorically. "Nobody is going to stop us!"
Earlier Friday, Mexico's ambassador to Guatemala said his country intended to enforce what he called a policy of orderly entry in the face of the thousands trying to cross.
Ambassador Luis Manuel Lopez Moreno added that more than 100 migrants had been allowed to cross the bridge to apply for refugee status, including some who were from the caravan and others who were not.
Meanwhile, the rafts that normally ferry throngs of people across the river were carrying mostly merchandise and the raft operators said they had been warned by Mexican authorities not to carry people.
Jose Porfirio Orellana, a 47-year-old acorn and bean farmer from Yoro province in Honduras, said he hopes to reach the United States due to woeful economic conditions in his country.
"There is nothing there," Orellana said.
The first members of the 3,000-strong caravan began arriving in the Guatemalan border town of Tecun Uman on buses and trucks early Thursday, but the bulk of the group sloshed into town on foot in a downpour late in the afternoon and into the evening.
As the sun rose, a military helicopter flew along the Mexican side of the river foreshadowing the difficulties they could face. At the same time, several busloads of Mexican federal police in riot gear deployed at the border crossing in Ciudad Hidalgo.
Mexico: AMLO Pledges Visa Program for Central Americans Published 19 October 2018
AMLO has a plan to boost development in Central America
On Thursday, Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) from the Morena Party, announced a new policy which aims to change the country's relationship with Central America: work visas for undocumented immigrants.
RELATED: US: Donald Trump Threatens Mexico with Militarizing The Border
AMLO believes providing economic opportunities for people migrating in search of jobs, will help avoid economic migration. "The second step is a development plan which includes Central America, to promote productive activities ... we are going to offer jobs to Central American migrants. This is our plan. Whoever wants to work in our country is going to have support, through a work visa," Lopez Obrador reportedly said in a recent call with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Currently, there is a "visiting worker card" program, in Mexico, which allows entry and re-entry to people from Belize and Guatemala only. Hondurans, who make up the largest portion of Central Americans traveling to the United States, are not included and are required to request a visa to enter Mexico.
The visa program is part of Mexico's incoming government's strategy to promote development in Central America, which also includes plans to invest in the region's countries. One such initiative is to build a railway in the Yucatan Peninsula.
The visa program comes at a moment when President Trump is pressing Mexico to stop a migrant caravan heading for the United States. Trump has repeatedly threatened to militarize the U.S.-Mexico border — that is, closing it — and pulling economic aid, if Mexico does not comply.
The 4,000-person strong-migrant caravan pushing north toward the United States initially stalled Friday morning at Guatemala's border with Mexico, where members debated the next step.
On the Mexican side of a border bridge, they were met by a wall of police with riot shields. About 50 migrants succeeded in pushing through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated. The chaos calmed somewhat as migrants formed lines stretching across the bridge and some even returned to the Guatemalan side to buy water and food.
But others, tired of waiting, jumped off the bridge into the Suchiate River. Migrants organized a rope brigade to ford its muddy waters, and some floated across on rafts operated by local residents who charged a dollar or two to make the crossing.
Manelich Castilla, the Mexican federal police chief, told Foro TV that his forces successfully prevented a violent breach by the migrants. But in a separate interview with Milenio television, he said people not part of the group had attacked police with rocks and fireworks.
"It will be under the conditions that have been said since the start," Castilla said. "Orderly, with established procedures, never through violence or force as a group of people attempted."
Earlier Friday, Mexico's ambassador to Guatemala said his country intended to enforce what he called a policy of orderly entry in the face of the thousands trying to cross.
he collective migration – made mostly on foot, hitchhiking or crammed on top of buses – is at best tiresome. People are weak, get little sleep, food or water and their futures are unknown.
he collective migration – made mostly on foot, hitchhiking or crammed on top of buses – is at best tiresome. People are weak, get little sleep, food or water and their futures are unknown.
And we don't want to help these people.
Sad.
How many are you and your $500,000 a year income taking in?
Are you going down and taking them food water and clothing?
he collective migration – made mostly on foot, hitchhiking or crammed on top of buses – is at best tiresome. People are weak, get little sleep, food or water and their futures are unknown.
he collective migration – made mostly on foot, hitchhiking or crammed on top of buses – is at best tiresome. People are weak, get little sleep, food or water and their futures are unknown.
And we don't want to help these people.
Sad.
How many are you and your $500,000 a year income taking in?
Are you going down and taking them food water and clothing?
What are YOU doing to help them?
Since you asked:
--We don't make $500,000 a year.
--We are opposed to rejecting people who need help and are willing to speak out against such a hateful approach.
--Our entire family is involved in community service. We take turns working at a local homeless shelter each week.
--I have started a charitable contribution funding to local cancer hospitals and their patients by donating 10 percent of my profits from my art sales.
--My wife and I have sponsored 2 Hispanic children and 4 black children.
--I have offered free tutoring services for at-risk students. For my other customers, the standard rate is $120 an hour. If I know the people, I cut in half. That is $60 an hour. For the 6 at-risk students, the cost is free.
Now Vambo...........what the hell do you do except try your hardest to spread a message of hate and segregation?
he collective migration – made mostly on foot, hitchhiking or crammed on top of buses – is at best tiresome. People are weak, get little sleep, food or water and their futures are unknown.
And we don't want to help these people.
Sad.
How many are you and your $500,000 a year income taking in?
Are you going down and taking them food water and clothing?
What are YOU doing to help them?
Since you asked:
--We don't make $500,000 a year.
--We are opposed to rejecting people who need help and are willing to speak out against such a hateful approach.
--Our entire family is involved in community service. We take turns working at a local homeless shelter each week.
--I have started a charitable contribution funding to local cancer hospitals and their patients by donating 10 percent of my profits from my art sales.
--My wife and I have sponsored 2 Hispanic children and 4 black children.
--I have offered free tutoring services for at-risk students. For my other customers, the standard rate is $120 an hour. If I know the people, I cut in half. That is $60 an hour. For the 6 at-risk students, the cost is free.
Now Vambo...........what the hell do you do except try your hardest to spread a message of hate and segregation?
Vambo, I actually feel sorry for you. I think it would be awful to go through life w/so much hate in one's heart and such a lack of intelligence to deal w/it.
Vambo, I actually feel sorry for you. I think it would be awful to go through life w/so much hate in one's heart and such a lack of intelligence to deal w/it.
I don't hate, why do you feel you have a lack of lack of intelligence to deal with it?
have you noticed they only start bringing up "what about the people here at home?" when we talk about migrants and refugees?
but on any normal day, they dont say a word about helping "people here at home" while we've been always addressing ways to help people here at home?
its a sad reality we live in right now. it was like a few years ago, when we was talk about the very topic, and they go "what about all the homeless vets?"
they never bring up homeless american vets or kids unless its a group, like this caravan, that involves people they don't like.
which is typically people who dont look like them.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Vambo, I answered your question as to what I do to help others.
I asked you what you do to help others besides posting negative articles against minorities? Are you going to answer or not?
I donate food, clothing, blankets and money. I have help build shelters and fix up ones that already in place.
Wouldn't Mexico be a better place for them? They already speak the language and their cultures are similar so it should be much easier to assimilate into Mexican culture than American culture.
Vambo, I answered your question as to what I do to help others.
I asked you what you do to help others besides posting negative articles against minorities? Are you going to answer or not?
I donate food, clothing, blankets and money. I have help build shelters and fix up ones that already in place.
Wouldn't Mexico be a better place for them? They already speak the language and their cultures are similar so it should be much easier to assimilate into Mexican culture than American culture.
are you that clueless? millions upon millions of AMERICANS in this country speak spanish.
and culture? our culture is a combination of EVERYONES around the world.
i guess you probably dont understand why this country is a called a melting pot.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Hours before the sun rises above the horizon, Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas, are examining the streets to track down illegal immigrants attempting to cross what is the most heavily trafficked area along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Just minutes into the first hour of their shift, one agent gets a notification on his radio that multiple groups of illegal immigrants can be seen through infrared scanners. The agents hop out of their vans and cross a pair of train tracks into a wet, dewy field, where they find three illegal immigrants hiding in the bushes – one with an injured foot.
The agents pull these immigrants to the side of the road for questioning before they are taken in for processing. What complicates the matter is that U.S. officials say detention centers and holding facilities are at capacity, so many of the illegals seen being arrested will be released -- there is just nowhere for them to go.
This pattern continued hour after hour as different groups were continually captured, with dozens of illegals being arrested before 9 a.m. During a 12-hour shift in the Rio Grande Valley sector, a Fox News team witnessed more than 75 apprehensions by these Border Patrol agents – mostly groups of men in the morning followed by more families in the afternoon.
Raul Ortiz, who is the deputy chief of Border Patrol agents, called this business as usual -- agents are averaging up to 641 arrests every day.
“The family units will be processed and probably will be released after they receive a notice to appear at an immigration hearing date and the unaccompanied children will be turned over to HHS and placed into a shelter,” said Ortiz, adding that in the Rio Grande Valley alone they are seeing a 300 percent increase in family units crossing the border.
An overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants seized are labeled “OTM” or “Other Than Mexican.” These individuals migrate from countries such as Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, and they are coming over in record numbers.
More than 16,000 family members were apprehended last month, which is an 80 percent increase since July, when the Trump administration decided to reverse a zero tolerance policy on immigration.
More than 107,000 members of these “family units” were taken into custody in 2018, shattering the previous record of nearly 78,000 in 2016. Overall, that is more than 369,000 arrests along the border in 2018.
Most of these immigrants told Fox News they are coming to the United States for work, yet the increasing number of immigrants crossing the border has increased the demand for agents whose work is nonstop - each hour bringing a new group of arrests. This, as thousands of Central American migrants in a human caravan are streaming over the international bridge from Guatemala into Mexico after breaking through metal gates at the border fence.
Hell, I noticed that people were complaining about LeBron's program because Akron's schools were paying for a percentage of the school. LOL....Bro, they would have had to pay for 100 percent of those kid's education if LeBron never showed up.
They refuse to recognize what's going on in the 'hood. You ever try and buy food in the hood? What you see? Fast food joints. Gas stations. Convenient marts. The one grocery store has a limited selection and jacked prices. It's all part of keeping people down!
