Posted on 11/25/2018 9:26:51 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Caravan storms the border: US agents fire tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of migrants trying to force their way into America, as Trump closes crossing between San Diego and Tijuana
US Border Patrol shot tear gas and rubber bullets at a group of migrants, including toddlers, as members of the caravan tried to storm the border.
Children were screaming and coughing in the mayhem at the San Ysidro Port of Entry when American agents tried to push the surging Central Americans back.
They started to use crowd control on Sunday afternoon when migrants tried to cut a hole in the concertina wire gap on the Mexican side of the fence.
The tensions prompted US officials to close the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego, stopping thousands of people travelling legitimately between the US and Mexico.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she would not put up with this 'lawlessness' and threatened harsh punishments on anyone who 'anyone who destroys federal property, endangers our frontline operators, or violates our sovereignty'.
She later added that border personnel were 'struck by projectiles thrown by caravan members'. She condemned those responsible for their 'dangerous' actions that were 'not consistent with peacefully seeking asylum'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Soros is doing more with this caravan stunt to build support for the border wall than 2 years of the GOP worms in control of Congress ever did.
They got hit by military helicopters too.
They got hit by the helicopters with what?
I was hoping the copters were doing more than just hovering and ‘observing’.
Mexico has apparently gotten the message. If Mexico sends them back and enforces its southern border, we are well on the way to securing our border. Still need to keep all illegals from entering and deporting all that are already hear.
I am all for work visas, but their families must return home.
If the UN wants to be useful, maybe thsy can do an investigation into why things suck so much in Csntral America.
There’s that word ‘migrants’ again, four times this time.
Tear gas bombs.
I doubt we have deployed the ‘heavy hitters’ in crowd control yet...
Rubber bullets too ???
They don’t want to work for a living in Mexico.
They want to vote for a living in the U.S.
I saw a report where officials said the rush was a staged event. They drug along the women and children. Officials said that there were people organizing the migrants. Then the men started throwing projectiles at US Border Patrol. Mayhem, running, crying, screaming and the loathesome media got their snaps of crying children.
Mexico's surplus population has been sent to the US and the Mexican illegal alien border traffic has reached a rough equilibrium where illegals returning to Mexico number about the same as those crossing the border back to the US resulting in an effectively zero net increase or decrease in the US.
The Mexican demographics show roughly 20 million Mexicans have vanished out of Mexico in the last 15 years or so.
The big impact of Mexican illegals has been on the massive increase on anchor babies born to Mexican illegal aliens.
The recent waves of illegals are primarily from Central America, or they are Mexicans returning back to the US after going home to visit
Here is the report I saw.
http://www.cbs8.com/story/24088325/dramatic-video-of-border-rush#.W_uCcgE2yRA.twitter
The UN isn’t needed for investigations
as to why these invaders are headed our
way. The problem is, they’re cowards,
and won’t take it upon themselves to
fix their problems.
El Salvador:
Prosecutors in El Salvador have ordered the arrests of former President Mauricio Funes and 30 members of his inner circle on a range of corruption charges for allegedly siphoning $351 million from public coffers,
Guatemala:
Guatemalan protesters march against Morales’s decision to end the work of a UN-backed anti-corruption body.
Honduras:
Hondurans marched in protest Sunday, demanding an impartial count of the results of last week’s presidential election and chanting their opposition to President Juan Orlando Hernández’s bid for a second term.
singing Gene McDaniel’s song “A Tear”.
That I would pay to see.
“I am all for work visas, but their families must return home.”
Back in the fifties and early sixties we had the bracero program. Many workers would come to the USA (without their families) and work the farms. We needed their labor and they needed the work. It was all legal. After harvest season they would go back to Mexico with their money and many would return for the next season of harvest.
Oddly one of the braceros of great talent became the manager of the farm after my grandfather retired. He became a United States Citizen the legal way and joined the American Dream. My Grandfather selected him to manage a vast farm as he knew he was the man to do it. His name was “little Jose” as his father was one of the braceros that had worked for my grandfather for many years. His name was “Big Jose.” In reality their names were Jesus but were called Jose.
I have many fond memories of the farm as a kid. My playmates were Mexicans kids of those that lived on the farm that were USA citizens. They were permanent residents on the farm and their parents were integral to the function of the farm. They did not speak English as they had not started school yet. It was all Spanish.
I would go to my friends home (it was very humble) and his grandmother would smother me with love and affection. She also would feed us with the most wonderful Mexican food. She ran a little canteen in her home to make a few dollars. I would sit down at a long table and eat with the braceros. She spoke little English. It was a paradise for a young kid in West Texas. I miss those days dearly in those times when politicians did not try to divide us by race and culture.
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