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We Are Hungry!' Migrants Wail at Mexico-Guatemala Border
New York Times ^ | 10/20/2018 | AP via NYT

Posted on 10/19/2018 9:50:17 PM PDT by Rusty0604

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala — A standoff between thousands of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States and Mexican police stretched through the night with some migrants hanging from the closed border gate wailing "there are children here" while others slept on the crowded bridge linking Guatemala to Mexico.

But they were met Friday by a wall of police with riot shields on the Mexican side of the bridge. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated, joining the sea of humanity on the bridge.

Police and immigration agents began letting small groups of 10, 20 or 30 people through the gates if they wanted to apply for refugee status. Once they file a claim, they can go to a shelter to spend the night.

As night fell on the bridge, the migrants' frustration turned to despair as women clutching small children took up the rows in front of the gate pleading with the Mexican federal police. Some migrants yelled "We are hungry!" Others wailed that they had children while others set up tarps to prepare for the night sleeping on the increasingly dirty and befouled bridge.

A Mexican marine official with a loudspeaker approached the gate and told migrants they would be taken in trucks to "a humanitarian attention center" in Tapachula, a border city in the Mexican state of Chiapas. But the official did not say when this would happen.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; braking; caravan; gohome; guatemala; honduras; hondurascaravan; illegals; illegalsinvasion; immigration; returnhome; trump; wompwomp
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“increasingly dirty and befouled bridge. “

and there you have it ...


221 posted on 10/20/2018 8:55:31 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: bgill

either there is law or there is invasion, politicians want to play in between, normal folks want their country back, time for a stand..they gotta go, this violent protest stuff needs putting down too..no civility leads to ass whoopin, until folks are tired of being beat by those they choose to abuse


222 posted on 10/20/2018 8:56:11 AM PDT by aces
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To: Leep

New Demonrat motto for the Statue of Liberty: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning for FREE sh*t!


223 posted on 10/20/2018 8:59:51 AM PDT by bigiron
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To: Rusty0604

“It was part of the trade deal.”
_________________________________

I didn’t know that! That’s interesting.

I wonder what the penalty is for the Mexicans not keeping their end of the deal.

Does it apply to Mexican citizens, too? If not, it should.


224 posted on 10/20/2018 9:05:05 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hey liberals! Trump in 2020. Because, 'eff you!)
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To: Rusty0604
Who did she think was going to provide her with these necessities?

First, George Soros.

Second, the U.S, taxpayers via the Welfare State.

225 posted on 10/20/2018 9:08:41 AM PDT by Gritty (Progressives think that power should only be in expert hands-their own - Angelo Codevilla)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Awww, poor babies. This is a plastic hotdog. We should buy a couple thousand of them and air drop them on the crowed.


226 posted on 10/20/2018 9:23:08 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

The deal hasn’t gone into effect yet, so we’ll see how they do. I need to see if any progress has been made overnight.


227 posted on 10/20/2018 9:57:15 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Covenantor
👍👍👍
228 posted on 10/20/2018 9:58:22 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: fieldmarshaldj

229 posted on 10/20/2018 10:06:39 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
re: some migrants hanging from the closed border gate wailing "there are children here"

Has anyone suggested to those on the bridge that they turn around and go home? AND feed *their* children there?

Prolly not ... and it would never occur to the nooze media either that that was an option.

230 posted on 10/20/2018 10:12:11 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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To: Gritty
re: "First, George Soros."

Ya ... en route to the US ... where the *real* goodies are ...

231 posted on 10/20/2018 10:14:07 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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re: "Some migrants yelled "We are hungry!" Others wailed that they had children while others set up tarps to prepare for the night sleeping on the increasingly dirty and befouled bridge."

Ben Franklin wrote: "that which hurts instructs". Maybe they are learning a lesson ...

232 posted on 10/20/2018 10:16:05 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
increasingly dirty and befouled bridge.

that's a nice touch

233 posted on 10/20/2018 10:25:33 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: _Jim

Maybe the organizations/persons who transported the migrants to the Mexican border expected a new group to provide transportation, food, shelter, sanitary facilities after the migrants crossed the border into Mexico. Maybe the extra day(s) at the border we’re not included in the money that the would-be invaders already paid.


234 posted on 10/20/2018 10:30:11 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Cry me a river


235 posted on 10/20/2018 10:30:28 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: Rusty0604

Visa overstayers are as big a problem as border crossers. Our government can know if tourist/student visa people leave when their time is up but they don’t want to. All of this invasion is the fault of Congress.


236 posted on 10/20/2018 10:36:39 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: Freee-dame
re: the link to Breitbart

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/10/19/watch-migrant-caravan-tears-down-border-fence-storms-mexico/

I don't see any *signs* that said "USA or bust"

just some foreign blue-striped flag of some sort ... BUT THEY ARE STILL COMING THIS WAY STILL CARRYING THEIR FOREIGN FLAG ...

237 posted on 10/20/2018 10:48:38 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Make Shitholia Great Again


238 posted on 10/20/2018 10:52:50 AM PDT by gasport (The dung beatle should be the symbol of the Democrat Party)
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To: Freee-dame

- COWS: Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. They also tracked her calves to their stalls . but they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.

Attributed to George Carlin


239 posted on 10/20/2018 10:56:34 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: _Jim

The flag of Honduras. They are flying the flag of Honduras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Honduras


240 posted on 10/20/2018 11:01:44 AM PDT by _Jim (Conspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak-minded.)
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