Posted on 10/18/2018 3:35:46 PM PDT by blam
Mexico deployed hundreds of riot police on Thursday to intercept a caravan of more than 4,000 Central American migrants, following demands by President Trump that Mexio, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador intervene before he has to deploy US troops.
“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.
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On Tuesday, Trump threatened to cut off aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador if they “allow their citizens, or others, to journey through their borders and up to the United States.”
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Mexico said in a Thursday statement that it would also seek assistance from the United Nations refugee agency for help coordinating with Central American governments of countries from which the migrants originated.
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Hundreds of federal police in riot gear fanned out on the international bridge in Suchiate, on the Mexican-Guatemalan border, as the caravan of several thousand Honduran migrants trekked toward the crossing.
Guatemala also sent police reinforcements to its side of the border, after Trump threatened to cut aid to the region, deploy the military and close the US-Mexican border if the migrants were allowed to continue.
A first group of several hundred migrants arrived late Wednesday in the border town of Tecun Uman, Guatemala, where they overflowed a local shelter, leaving many to sleep in the town square or on the street, an AFP correspondent said. –AFP
The new caravan, which began in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula with 150 migrants, is the second caravan from Honduras this year. The first caravan was largely disbanded, though a few asylum seekers successfully made it to US soil and were taken into custody.
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I didn’t see your post before I posted the same idea (except one kilometer, more strategic depth). GMTA.
“I didn’t see your post before I posted the same idea (except one kilometer, more strategic depth). GMTA.”
I was soft-selling it because, once you take 100 feet, why not 100 miles? I not only believe that we should take a wide swath along the Mexican border I think that America should take the entire Pacific coast of Mexico west of the continental divide all the way down to the tip of southern Mexico. He area that I’m talking about has only 4-6 million Mexicans because most of the population is concentrating concentrated in eastern Mexico - especially around and in Mexico City.
Once we take all that empty territory we should allow all the illegal aliens in America to homestead back in their own country in the territory we siezed.
Good article. FWIW, my Web of Trust (WOT) threw a fit when I clicked on the article’s link. Went there anyway.
They correctly assumed that our President doesn’t f*ck around.
Yeah that’s right, Tump send the military to the border to watch them invade. Right? America has lost it’s guts.
Will be interesting to see how many of the invaders stick it out and how many can produce papers...and how many are not who they seem to be.........
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