Posted on 04/04/2018 9:35:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's Note: John Schlafly co-wrote this column.
During the Easter weekend, when many Americans were watching the college basketball championships, President Donald Trump kept his eye on America’s southern border. It’s long overdue for a president to defend our borders.
“Getting more dangerous,” Trump tweeted on Easter Sunday before attending church with his wife, Melania, in Palm Beach. “‘Caravans’ coming.”
The president was referring to the “caravan” (their word) of some 1,200 men, women and children who were spotted in southern Mexico, heading toward the United States. Photographs showed a massive column of people walking north, herded by a few vehicles alongside.
A “caravan” is a group of migrants traveling together with all their belongings, often on foot or with covered wagons, stopping at makeshift camps along the way to eat and sleep. The word originated in the Middle East centuries ago when crossing the desert by caravan was a common sight.
In the frontier era of the 19th century, Americans traveled west by covered wagon for mutual protection as they crossed through hostile Indian country. Caravans are rarely seen in modern America, but it’s a different world south of the border, where millions of people live in primitive conditions that would have challenged our ancestors.
In this case, a caravan consisting of hundreds of men, women and children from Central America, mostly Honduras, crossed into Mexico on March 25, heading north. By April 1 they had traveled 140 miles to the town of Matías Romero.
A thousand people do not embark on a journey of over 1,000 miles without organization and financial support. The caravan now making its way through Mexico is being coordinated by a group called Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which means Town Without Borders (or People Without Borders).
The New York Times describes Pueblo Sin Fronteras as a “transnational advocacy group” whose leader, Irineo Mujica, is a “Mexican-American who holds dual citizenship.” There are so many things wrong with those phrases that it’s difficult to know where to start.
To begin with, the United States does not recognize dual citizenship, except in rare cases. A person from Mexico or anywhere else who goes through the process of becoming a U.S. citizen is required to take an oath swearing to totally renounce his previous allegiances.
Similarly, a “transnational” group is not allowed to exist in many countries without first registering to do business or conduct its activities legally in that country. We have enough problems with the outlaw transnational group called MS-13, which has committed murders of incredible savagery, primarily in areas populated by recent immigrants from Central America.
The caravan’s next stop is the town of Puebla, near Mexico City, which the migrants hope to reach by April 5. There they expect to attend two days of “workshops, led by volunteer lawyers” to learn about “their options for legal protections in the United States.”
During the Obama administration, lawyers would coach illegal migrants, who do not speak English, how to keep repeating the English phrase “credible fear.” When people show up at the border claiming a credible fear of persecution in their home country, they are treated as refugees with a right to stay here indefinitely until their claims are adjudicated.
“As ridiculous as it sounds,” Trump tweeted on Monday, “the laws of our country do not easily allow us to send those crossing our Southern Border back where they came from. A whole big wasted procedure must take place.”
If those people truly have a credible fear in Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, why don’t they apply for asylum right where they are, in Mexico? Under international law, according to a ruling of the European Court of Justice last year, migrants must seek refuge or claim asylum in the first safe country they reach, which in this case is Mexico.
Fortunately, the Trump administration has tightened the requirements for would-be refugees and expedited the processing of their claims. But there’s still a huge backlog of refugee cases from the Obama administration, so we need to pressure Mexico to cut off the caravan before it gets here.
The renegotiation of NAFTA gives Trump leverage, as he tweeted on Tuesday: “Mexico is making a fortune on NAFTA. With all of the money they make from the U.S., hopefully they will stop people from coming through their country and into ours, at least until Congress changes our immigration laws!”
The alleged rights of illegal aliens know no bounds. Last week an Obama-appointed federal judge entered a sweeping order that teenage girls who illegally crossed our southern border without their parents have a constitutional right to an abortion in the United States.
An American teenage girl cannot ordinarily obtain an abortion in Texas without parental consent. But according to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was born in Jamaica, an illegal alien teenage girl can get an abortion here without parental notice or consent, even though abortions are illegal in her home country.
“...Last week an Obama-appointed federal judge entered a sweeping order that teenage girls who illegally crossed our southern border without their parents have a constitutional right to an abortion in the United States....”
Just another attempt to get MORE ILLEGALS into the USA. The radical RATS at work.
And the National Guard has been summoned to meet them.
This has already backfired on Metico.
Had they disbanded the hord and deported them much earlier
Trump would not have called for military at the border.
Having military at the border will decrease all illegals and drugs
coming in.
Having military at the border will decrease all illegals and drugs coming in
It’s like a small time operator has found a back door into a company to rip off a few dollars every day, but a big player makes a public move to use that doorway to take large sums. So the company puts heavy guards on the door. The little guy just got shut down.
Military at the border becomes cost effective if it is stopping an overt invasion and has the added benefit of stopping all the other stuff too.
The Munchkins Are Coming!
The Munchkins Are Coming!
So we heard, but there’s still news of them progressing.
Since the news isn’t interested in reporting facts, hard to know what’s happening.
Just a random thought, if a caravan reaches US soil then are rounded up by the National Guard, would the illegals be subject to catch and release rules currently in place?
Wishful thinking. Already they have declared that the National Guard will only help with intel.
Heck any kid with an iPhone can record them coming across the border that is not the important part. Stopping them is the important part and the National Guard or for that matter the Border Patrol can not prevent them from coming in.
The President must declare Martial Law in a border buffer zone and arrest and expel the illegals without depending on the courts. He won't and the invasion will continue. La Raza lives.
Quit feeding the Bears!
Problem Solved.
They walked here.....they can walk home.
Just a random thought, if a caravan reaches US soil then
are rounded up by the National Guard, would the illegals
be subject to catch and release rules currently in place?
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Good question....
But, don’t they come in and asked for asylum?
Then what do you do?
Using the National Guard would be a joke. First, they would be issued no ammunition and would be in fear of prosecution if just one illegal were to be injured or have “his feelings hurt.” Libtards are that vicious. Far better not to use the Guard than to see them publicly humiliated.
From what I’ve seen so far, these “caravans” are going to drive up the obesity rates in this country. Lots of four and five hundred pounders coming in. “Poor people” my @$$.
Somebody wants this confrontation and has expended a lot of resources to construct this engagement. These are not a horde of random people who rolled out of bed on day and all coincidentally decided to march thousands of miles through Mexico and into the United States.
There is far more sinister to all this.
Not wishful thinking. Reality!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/us/politics/trump-border-immigration-caravan.html
Having Military at the border will be money wasted and will do nothing to slow the hordes.
The last time they were deployed they were stationed 60 miles inland of the border so what possible positive effect could they have? FOX news military analyst already announced they would have no authority to arrest or detain so they are only going to be there to facilitate the invasion, you know provide food, water and transportation.
As soon as The President changed from Military to National Guard I knew he wasn't serious about Military on the border to prevent entry. I also said yesterday that the Mexican claim they would break up the Caravan was fake.
By International Law standards, Mexico is perpetrating an Act of War on the USA. This outlines what is at stake here:
“The 1500 man Honduran “caravan” on its way to the Southern border is more than it seems. Of course they will be denied entry. But this is intended by the US liberal fascist left to be the beginning os a refugee camp on the Mexican side of the border. Once it becomes a UN approved refugee camp, it will be funded by the Muslim countries who control much of the UNs “refugee” program.
“It will then be only a short time before the men of that camp will be armed by Iran, North Korea and other Muslim States. One can see the Arab Spring hand of our magic negro community organizers at work. Mexico will sit back and allow it all, what have they got to lose? The entire Northern tier of Mexican states is controlled by Mexican gangs.
“PDJT has only a short time to act, but he has a weaponized FBI, DOJ and CIA. Who knows what will happen now? Our country cannot permit the establishment of a UN approved refugee camp on our Southern border. PDJT has either a military option or he must grant asylum to the 1500 and process them immediately. Both are only short term stop gaps.
“If PJDT can draw the attention of America to the incredible risk to our national security as an election issue, he may actually see the November election bring full Republican control of the Senate and the House. But that has its own uncertainty.
“These factors will begin to play out over the next few months. Congress will rue the day they ever refused to implement some kind of solution to settle the DACA issue. Now the rage of the American people is about to be felt at the polls. One can only hope that it wil come against the Democrat party and its deep state cabal , a criminal syndicate of liberal fascists who seek to destroy America. This is why President Trump must fire both Mueller and Rosenstein, replace Sessions and clean these liberal fascist mafia from the higher echelons of the federal government.
“The invasion of our country is about to begin.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3644194/posts?page=139#139
They would be there mostly:
#1 to back up ICE
#2 As a presence
#3 Training
In truth it began some time ago, but may be impossible to hide from the little people any longer. California is a hostile occupied territory and few people even notice it happened. Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado are next. Oregon and Washington are well on the way with them but with different goals.
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