Posted on 10/24/2018 1:57:09 PM PDT by jazusamo
The migrant caravan marching northbound through Central America is an “elaborately planned” movement that’s benefiting human smugglers and bringing disturbing numbers of violent gang members and other criminal elements through Guatemala, according to government sources in the capital city. “MS-13 gang members have been detained and coyotes (human smugglers) are joining the march with clients who pay to get smuggled into the United States,” a Guatemalan official told Judicial Watch. People from Asian countries waiting to get smuggled into the U.S. through Central America are also integrating with poor Hondurans in the caravan, a high-level Guatemalan government source confirmed. Among them are nationals of Bangladesh, a south Asian Islamic country that’s well known as a recruiting ground for terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). “There are lots of dirty businesses associated with this,” Guatemalan authorities told Judicial Watch. “There’s lots of human trafficking.”
Sandwiched between Honduras and Mexico, Guatemala has been overrun with the onslaught of migrants that began their journey last week in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. At last count around 7,000 have participated in the trek, a great deal of them rowdy, angry men ages 17 to 40 . President Jimmy Morales has ordered the military and police to detain all of the migrants and facilitate their safe return back to Honduras, though thousands have already reached the Mexican border. In a morning interview with Judicial Watch at the Guatemalan Ministry of Defense, Secretary of Defense General Luis Miguel Ralda Moreno said more than 2,000 Hondurans have been sent back home on buses. “We’re doing everything possible to stop the caravan while still respecting human rights,” General Moreno said.
During an afternoon interview at the National Palace, President Morales said that Guatemala has absorbed the huge cost of mobilizing police and military to return thousands of people to Honduras. He would like the United States to help him find the organizers of the caravan so they can face legal consequences. “Mass immigration like this endangers lives,” Morales said. “This is unprecedented. We are in the process of investigating who is behind the caravan.” Morales assures that Guatemala is doing everything possible to curb illegal immigration and asked for cooperation from the United States.
It has been a delicate and complicated task, Guatemalan officials say, because the caravan is a very organized movement that has been well orchestrated. There are rest points along the route with food, water and shelter for the migrants as well as medical care in some areas. “It’s very strategic and extremely organized,” a Guatemalan government source told Judicial Watch. “It is very complex, not a simple march. There is nothing spontaneous about it.” During a visit to the Guatemalan-Honduran border this week Judicial Watch interviewed multiple migrants who repeated the same rehearsed line when asked who organized the caravan, insisting it was a spontaneous event even though there were clearly organizers shouting instructions in Spanish and putting select persons in front of cameras for interviews. All of them said the caravan was not about politics but rather poverty.
Guatemalan officials disagree, estimating that the caravan is a movement of radicalized forces to destabilize Central American countries. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a conservative, echoes that assessment. In a local newspaper report published last week Hernández asserted that leftist interests seeking to destabilize the country are manipulating migrants. Women and children are being used without regard to the risks to their lives, Hernández said. “The irregular mobilization was organized for political reasons to negatively affect the governance and image of Honduras and to destabilize the peace of neighboring countries,” the president said, adding that many have returned to the country after realizing they’ve been fooled.
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Back in the day when I was marching to the USA from Honduras,
I was honest enough to admit I was just coming for the American Chicks
and the cheap tacos and beer. Why they wanna complicate things?
It’s the RATs, they complicate everything.
Many, many more are watching to see if these get in.
If they do, the deluge will be overwhelming.
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Ok, from the article it appears some or perhaps even many Guatemalan officials are good guys; our people likely know for sure.
In any event, someone needs to snatch one of the "organizers" and ask them in a polite "Guatemalan", or a "U.S. national security" manner, "WTF hired you"?
This appears very much like enemy forces advancing behind a shield of women and children - except it may be easier to deal with.
What are the marchers doing with American Flags?
A couple of Honduran invaders decided that they would burn an American flag with a swastika painted on it. This picture says all you need to know about this caravan of 7,000+ that is heading towards the United States. These brown savages don’t want to assimilate and become Americans, they hate America and hate the White people who have built and maintained it.
Overall they are using women and children for shields.
But if these people interviewed are telling the truth they don’t qualify as refugees, a job doesn’t qualify for refugee status.
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American chicks like boys with money, so you have to either work or at least do something illegal. But I see your point.
The last “caravan” (what was left of it) got catch and release after we were promised they would be stopped.
Judicial Watch is one of my news sources I trust the most. They are apolitical, seeking justice when crimes are committed.
Common sense would indicate you are correct; unemployment, high crime rate, lousy schools, crummy neighbors, etc., ought not be in play. The FDR dems in the 40's didn't even recognize those who were fleeing massacre by their government.
Not sure on what basis we granted entry in the early 1900's but after Obama imported all manner of people and salted them around the country, none of which had any obvious means of contributing to the impacted communitites, it may be a moot point.
I agree, they’re doing a great job.
Is there any evidence yet of who’s organizing, orchestrating, and paying for this caravan?
We all know who the suspects are... but any real proof?
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From what I’ve read about immigrants in the early 1900s they had to have a sponsor and a certain amount of money to come here.
They had to be self sustaining, no welfare. Many started small businesses or worked in trades they had learned in their home countries or did manual labor.
They came here wanting to be American citizens and assimilated as a general rule.
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