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Migrants Adopt Tactic for U.S. Entry: Come as a Family
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 16, 2018 | Ryan Dube and Robbie Whelan

Posted on 11/16/2018 8:10:55 AM PST by reaganaut1

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras—On this city’s violent outskirts, where families live in tin-roofed shacks on streets menaced by gangs, the word is out on how best to escape to the U.S.

Bring the children.

The number of Central American families with children arriving at the U.S. border seeking asylum has surged in recent years—and they keep coming, as more migrant caravans make their way through Mexico.

Having children in tow can be a successful tactic because of American immigration rules. Families from crime-ridden Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are able to gain entry by demonstrating a credible fear of returning home.

Then, as they wait for court hearings on their asylum claims in a process that can take years, most are released into the U.S. because of a 20-day limit on detaining minors; an adult traveling alone could be detained much longer.

Doris Paz, a 29-year-old mother of three, said that is how her sister-in-law reached San Antonio. It is how a neighbor recently crossed into the U.S. with two children. It is why a cousin grabbed her children and joined a caravan of migrants that left Honduras last month. And it is why Ms. Paz joined the same caravan with her 6-year-old son.

“They say that bringing your child is your ticket in,” said Ms. Paz. After a few days walking with her son under tropical heat, however, she turned around and went home.

In fiscal year 2018, which ran from October 2017 to September 2018, a record of 107,212 immigrants traveling in families were apprehended at the U.S. border with Mexico, compared with 14,855 in fiscal year 2013, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The number of apprehended families hit a new monthly record in October, with officials catching roughly 23,100 immigrants traveling as families.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; asylum; border; immigration; invasion; migrants
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1 posted on 11/16/2018 8:10:55 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Devious bastards.


2 posted on 11/16/2018 8:12:45 AM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: reaganaut1

Send the border crossers back home or to a ANWR for deportation processing. Being kind only generates more. if they have no hope of entering and staying, they will not come.


3 posted on 11/16/2018 8:14:59 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: reaganaut1

And then they can really hit the Uncle Sap jackpot by having an anchor baby as soon as they can find some sperm and a “free” welfare hospital.


4 posted on 11/16/2018 8:16:27 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: reaganaut1

They can just as easily be made to die as “a family” too.


5 posted on 11/16/2018 8:16:29 AM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: jmacusa

Well, that may have its surprises.....

Entry requires biometrics of everyone. DNA testing to see if “Mom” and “Dad” are really Mom and Dad.

One slight wrinkle...... Some of the Dads are not the genetic Dads....Ooops.


6 posted on 11/16/2018 8:17:06 AM PST by gandalftb
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To: reaganaut1

The person allowing entry should take them home with them and provide for them for one year. Is only fair


7 posted on 11/16/2018 8:17:18 AM PST by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: reaganaut1

I’m not confident that we can win this war.


8 posted on 11/16/2018 8:19:52 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: reaganaut1

So far the only “immigrants” I’ve seen at the border are unaccompanied young men. Not a woman or child in sight.


9 posted on 11/16/2018 8:20:02 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
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To: reaganaut1

President Trump had two years to do something about this, but the pernicious Republicans blocked him. Now we have to live with it.


10 posted on 11/16/2018 8:20:48 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: reaganaut1

Illegal scumbags, come on down! The US Army has a few tactics of its own.


11 posted on 11/16/2018 8:21:55 AM PST by LibWhacker
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“Doris Paz, a 29-year-old mother of three”

I think we have identified the “real problem!” Most of the women in these countries are simply stupid perambulating vaginas looking to be “penetrated!”


12 posted on 11/16/2018 8:23:40 AM PST by vette6387
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Is this a new "tactic"?

Weren't they doing this all along?

13 posted on 11/16/2018 8:27:47 AM PST by Salman (Twitter makes press conferences obsolete.)
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Send them home, as a family.

Send them all home, including the 30 million that are already here.


14 posted on 11/16/2018 8:28:14 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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I think we have identified the “real problem!” Most of the women in these countries are simply stupid perambulating vaginas looking to be “penetrated!”

We can object to people gaming the system without dehumanizing them. Lots of women have given birth to three children. My wife has. That does not make them what you called them.

15 posted on 11/16/2018 8:28:21 AM PST by reaganaut1
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To: vette6387

Lots of women have 3 kids by the age of 29——nothing wrong with that at all.

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16 posted on 11/16/2018 8:29:29 AM PST by Mears
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17 posted on 11/16/2018 8:29:55 AM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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I don't have a subscription to WSJ, so did they do the rest of the story?

Did they talk about how many children are being STOLEN, by SOBs, that grab kids off the street, just to get into the US?

I doubt it, because then they would have to say that Trump was right about separating children, from adults, until they are proven to be their REAL parents.

Mexico talks about their missing children periodically, but it seems to be a nothing to see here.......move on along type story in America.

18 posted on 11/16/2018 8:30:46 AM PST by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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“Entry requires biometrics of everyone. DNA testing to see if “Mom” and “Dad” are really Mom and Dad.”

Include pictures of tattoos.


19 posted on 11/16/2018 8:32:11 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (EVERYONE IS UNIQUE! JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Bush League Republicans and Democrats have been carrying out a bipartisan plan to flood America with fraudulently documented foreigners for 30 years and blocking any attempt by the citizens to stop it.


20 posted on 11/16/2018 8:32:43 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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