Yeah, right. You call this a wall? Where is your S/OFF tag?
Posted on 03/02/2016 5:06:07 AM PST by 11th_VA
There has been a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Mexican border to enter US fearing Trump's presidency.
Gang violence and poverty have for years pushed Mexicans and Central Americans north to the United States, but recently a new driver has emerged: the anti-immigrant tone of leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
From the slums of Central America to close-knit migrant communities in US cities, Trump's rise to the front of the Republican pack has not gone unnoticed and is partly behind a spike in the numbers of migrants trying to enter the country, including children travelling without guardians
Interviews with migrants, people smugglers and officials show many migrants are trying to cross now instead of facing tighter policing and new policies to halt illegal immigration if Trump or another Republican wins the November 8 election.
"If Trump wins, we're all screwed and all Latinos are screwed," Isaias Franco, a 46-year-old from El Salvador who was deported from the United States late last year and is now trying to get back, said at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows 150,304 migrants were detained trying to cross the US-Mexico border between October and February, up 24 percent from the same period last year.
Similar data for "unaccompanied" child migrants - those traveling without a guardian - is not yet available, but between October and January, 20,455 kids were apprehended on the southwest border, up over 100 percent from a year ago.
The numbers of migrants typically rise as summer approaches. Like other migrants, Franco is aware of the US presidential race and Trump's vow, matched by fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz, to deport all the illegal immigrants in the United States, estimated at more than 11 million.
"You watch the news ... There's a lot of fear among Latinos," Franco said, adding that a Republican victory would spell the end for proposed reforms to give many immigrants greater legal security. Blanca Rivera, who manages the Ciudad Juarez migrant shelter, said she had noticed a recent surge in the numbers of migrants and also blamed the inflammatory rhetoric. "They think they need to take advantage while they can."
NOW OR NEVER
Trump has built a strong lead in the race for the Republican nomination in part by taking a tough stance on immigration.
He says Mexico is "killing" the United States with cheap labor and has sent "criminals" and "rapists" across the border. He is also promising to build a huge border wall and proposed a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
Although Trump has been the most outspoken candidate, his main rivals also say the government must stop the flow of illegal migrants into the country, mainly from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Trump, Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio all say they would overturn President Barack Obama's executive orders that shield some illegal immigrants from deportation. In 2014, tens of thousands of child migrants travelling without family members overwhelmed the southern US border, sparking a political crisis. The flow then fell in most of 2015 but has surged again in recent months.
Brenda Barrios, a 30-year-old Guatemalan based in Silver Spring, Maryland, crossed illegally into the United States in 2003 with her parents and two sisters. Her parents were later deported back to Guatemala, and they think it is too dangerous to return but Brenda is encouraging them to come before the end of the year in case Trump wins.
"He's one of the reasons why people are crossing the border. They think he looks like a dictator," she said. "It's very dangerous for them to cross. But it will be worse if Trump is president ... Life will be very difficult for us. He doesn't want us here."
Still, Barrios and other migrants interviewed said the United States, even under an administration seeking to halt illegal immigration, would still be better than the poverty and violence of their home countries. Since 2014, the murder rate in El Salvador has risen dramatically amid an escalation of gang violence and a regional drought has forced thousands of people, particularly from Guatemala, to head north. But there are also signs that human smugglers, or "coyotes", are taking advantage of the anti-immigrant rhetoric and peddling the idea that now is the time to go.
Victoria Cordova and her 11-year-old daughter Genesis were deported back to Honduras in 2014, after hiking through Mexico and being detained trying to cross into Texas. She said coyotes in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa - who charge about $7,000 per person - have been telling people now is the time to leave.
"Lots of the women here were talking about it, and asked me if I was going to go," she said. "People here were saying that in June of this year they were going to give new entry permits." Ruben Garcia, the director of the Annunciation House migrant shelter in El Paso said the next US president, whoever it is, will face the same challenge of migration flows. "Things in Central America are terrible," he said. "People are going to continue to flee because it's just really hard for people to survive right now."
Why only if Trump wins. Why no Rubio, or Cruz?
no = not
“Trump’s fault” replacing “Bush’s fault” already?
Do you really have to ask this question?
Rubio nor Cruz will do ANYTHING to combat illegal immigration, let alone build any wall.
Beating a wall does no good if they are going to be deported all the same.
There already is a wall.
He believes that he has a right to be in the United States even though he has been deported. We have a right to limit immigration to those that provide a benefit to this country, and our government officials have a responsibility to enforce our immigration laws.
I hope Trump wins. Trump is our only hope to stop the illegals invasion of the U.S.A. that will turn the U.S. socialist as immigrants vote for socialism(Read Ann Coulter’s book).
Cruz is a fraud.
Cruz has done nothing to stop the invasion of socialist 3rd world illegal immigrants that will turn the USA socialist. If Cruz were really a conservative then he would have done something to try to stop the invasion as he has been a Senator for years . But Cruz has tried to pass no good laws that help America but only the worst laws ever TPA TPP(Trojan horse for Obama immigration agenda) and the corker bill .
The Club for growth an open borders lobby is running ads for Cruz . That’s another Clue. All this is on Google and more. Cruz is not a conservative but is putting on an act to get rich.
Cruz voted for the Corker bill which allows Iran to build nuclear weapons.
Mark Levin has been shouting until he is blue in the face that this truly awful nuclear deal with Iran has been made possible only with the help of Senate Republicans, who passed a bill (99-1, with Tom Cotton of Arkansas the only sane dissenter) making it nearly impossible to stop Obama’s agreement with the ayatollahs:
Normally, here’s how treaties work: the President negotiates a treaty with another country, like the deal he is negotiating with Iran over its nuclear weapons development. Once the treaty is negotiated, it’s submitted to the Senate. Two thirds of the Senate has to vote to approve, or ratify, the treaty. If two thirds do not support it, it is not binding.
But the bill the Congress sent to the President turns things on its head. It will allow the President to lift sanctions on Iran, and unless Congress objects with a 2/3 vote within 30 days, the President’s actions are allowed to stand. See the reversal? Formerly, the President needed a 2/3 vote to act, and now the Congress needs a 2/3 vote to stop him from acting. And be assured the Democrats will never let the Republicans get that many votes.
Cruz, Rubio and Paul fought this measure procedurely, at first... but then voted for it on final passage. Totally inexplicable. And totally wrong, from a policy and constitutional perspective.
Well if we just add school buses on a weekend to the deportation fleet we can handle the extra flow.
Except for 1,300 miles where there is nothing. Or, where much of it is too short, or where part of it is made of surplus Viet Nam era runway landing strip mesh that has a design consisting of 1 1/2 inch X 4 inch metal rectangles that are ready made ladder steps.
Cruz is for entirely eliminating the border between the US & Mexico. Don’t believe what he says. Watch what he *does*.
Didja notice that alliance between former governor Rick Perry & Ted Cruz? He’s another politician who is highly sympathetic to illegals at the expense of American citizens.
But there’s more to it than that. Have you ever heard of the Trans Texas Corridor? Betcha there’s ‘a little sumthin’ in that- should it be revived & go through, for Perry, Cruz, & their globalist buddies, all. Some/ much of that has already been built (toll roads, for now TX-130 is one). It just needs to be implemented.
they love rubio and cruz.
I’d forgotten that, along with Kansas City being a major NAFTA/NAU hub.
Illegal squatters and their children should be sent back to their legal residences. We do not need more criminals in our country. We have more than enough native criminals.
“Cruz is for entirely eliminating the border between the US & Mexico. Don’t believe what he says. Watch what he *does*.”
Yes you are right. Cruz has done nothing to stop the invasion of socialist illegals into the U.S.A. that will vote to turn the U.S.A. socialist. Cruz is a fraud.
This web page shows how all of Cruz’s flip flops on trade and immigration prove he is a fraud and is for open borders:
Not to worry. Trump is going to commandeer a bunch of busses, go around collecting people who speak Spanish and bus them back to Mexico pronto.
Then he’ll let back in the “good” ones-maybe the ones who can speak English as well as Spanish - who the heck knows what the criteria will be.
I’m still waiting to hear how he plans to do all this and how it is Constitutional.
This is pure BS.
trump does not have an ‘anti-immigrant’ tone.
He is against illegal immigrants.
Libs try to cloud the diff, but it is huge.
I wonder, do you apply the same standard to Trump?
Yeah, right. You call this a wall? Where is your S/OFF tag?
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