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How I’d Handle The Caravan
Medium.com ^ | November 25, 2018 | <s>Roberts</s>Beto O'Rourke

Posted on 11/26/2018 8:55:16 AM PST by C19fan

It should tell us something about her home country that a mother is willing to travel 2,000 miles with her 4-month old son to come here. Should tell us something about our country that we only respond to this desperate need once she is at our border. So far, in this administration, that response has included taking kids from their parents, locking them up in cages, and now tear gassing them at the border.

People are leaving violent countries where they fear for their lives. Without money, they are subsisting on hope for their kids, for themselves, that they can get to safety. After being denied the ability to lawfully petition for asylum for the last 10 days, they are desperate.

We choose how to respond to this challenge.

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To: faithhopecharity

“she is welcome to apply for admission as an immigrant or for ‘asylum’...from home”

Wow! That’s really true?


41 posted on 11/26/2018 9:28:41 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: C19fan

What about the other 9 million in Honduras? What about the other 7 billion people in the world? What about them? We obviously can’t house 7 billion people in our country so the solution must lie elsewhere.

The countries throughout the world must fix their problems and make their countries livable. That is the only solution.


42 posted on 11/26/2018 9:29:13 AM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk
What about the other 9 million in Honduras? What about the other 7 billion people in the world? What about them? We obviously can’t house 7 billion people in our country so the solution must lie elsewhere.

The thing is, if the US took over Honduras to try to fix it, they'd be the first to chant "Yanqui Go Home!"

43 posted on 11/26/2018 9:31:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

How much foreign aid do we send annually to the various South American countries, eh, “Beto?”


44 posted on 11/26/2018 9:32:20 AM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: C19fan

He pretty much says what Trump says.

But, he doesn’t say how he is going to do it.

Should be move asylum applicant processors from other Ports of Entry because all of these clowns went to one location? Or is he going to suggest we hire a whole bunch more to run the applications at the border.

So, what he is saying is that all of the people that are doing this”right” should wait longer as we move resources to handle these people?

And, typical of a politician they state the problem not in terms of something that can be solved, but in terms of tugging on your heart: This poor mother, bringing her children here...

What makes me think that there were not the same heart strings pulled at the turn of the last century when my wife’s family was coming in from Italy and Poland? (My family came here when there were no borders.)

This is an article to keep his name in front of simpletons who will just read this and nod their heads about what a calm, decent, compassionate man he is...


45 posted on 11/26/2018 9:32:40 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: C19fan

They can go to the US embassy in their own country.

They could have accepted mexican asylum and a job

they could have stayed home and got another candidate elected last time.

Plenty of options.


46 posted on 11/26/2018 9:32:55 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: C19fan

Help Mexico build facilities to hold these people and process them in an orderly fashion. Send officers down there to begin processing any legitimate asylum claims. (I don’t suspect there are many, if any, but let’s process the two or three that may be legit and use the process to screen out the rest.)

Maybe even help train these people for jobs — there, not here.

We tell Mexico that it either agrees to that, or we build an even wider, higher, deeper wall and they get zero dollars from the United States. Take it or leave it.


47 posted on 11/26/2018 9:36:46 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: C19fan

We need more immigration/asylum magistrates, and we also need more Border Patrol and ICE agents.


48 posted on 11/26/2018 9:37:42 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: C19fan

This isn’t one sided is it?


49 posted on 11/26/2018 9:38:14 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: C19fan
It should tell us something that the invasion organizers are using women and children as battering rams.

50 posted on 11/26/2018 9:39:43 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: C19fan

Drones dropping pungent odors, alarming sounds of predatory animals and suggestive lights implying there could be a fire. Anything that would increase the perception of more risk.

Set up asylum processing offices at locations that would require them to turn around to apply and Shut down the border so the best option is to go back.

Drop leaflets detailing exactly what to expect should the cross illegally and then prove it when ever someone crosses.


51 posted on 11/26/2018 9:40:38 AM PST by jmclemore (Go Trump)
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To: C19fan

Drones dropping pungent odors, alarming sounds of predatory animals and suggestive lights implying there could be a fire. Anything that would increase the perception of more risk.

Set up asylum processing offices at locations that would require them to turn around to apply and Shut down the border so the best option is to go back.

Drop leaflets detailing exactly what to expect should the cross illegally and then prove it when ever someone crosses.


52 posted on 11/26/2018 9:40:39 AM PST by jmclemore (Go Trump)
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To: C19fan

I refuse to call Robert Francis O’Rourke by hsi cultural appropriation nickname.


53 posted on 11/26/2018 9:40:44 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: C19fan

I refuse to call Robert Francis O’Rourke by his cultural appropriation nickname.


54 posted on 11/26/2018 9:41:06 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: C19fan

Once an asshole always an asshole. Beto, bum bum boy.


55 posted on 11/26/2018 9:42:49 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’d handle them just like any other invaders.


56 posted on 11/26/2018 9:43:55 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: C19fan

How I would handle the wall and Mexico.

WE will not shut Mexico down by shutting down the entire border...there by destroying your economy.

IF:

1)You pay for half of the wall.
2) you allow U.S. to patrol a one hundred foot strip of land (No lo ZONE) across the entire mexican side of the border until the end of time.
With the right to stop and detain anyone who enters the 100 foot no zone.


57 posted on 11/26/2018 9:49:06 AM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: C19fan

So Beta thinks all of the problems of Central America are our fault and our responsibility. Somehow it is our fault that criminals in Central America are sending contraband to our country to poison our people. Somehow we are responsible for everything happening in those countries today because we intervened politically to fight Communism there 30 years ago.

You lost, Beta. Just go away.


58 posted on 11/26/2018 9:52:16 AM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

He should get his rich Betobutt down to South America and fix things where these people are not scared for their lives. Then, he can be a winner here in the USA...

but, all they do is throw wood on a fire and run away, creaps!


59 posted on 11/26/2018 9:53:14 AM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: Leep

Fence in that 100 foot zone and populate it with a bunch of those feral boars you see hunted on YouTube videos. Critters like that probably like them some refugee.


60 posted on 11/26/2018 9:58:37 AM PST by VietVet876
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