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Another blown narrative: USC study shows migrant caravan not about escaping 'violence'
American Thinker ^ | 11/30/2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 11/30/2018 6:38:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A new study on Central American migrants by the University of Southern California, hardly a conservative source, finds that caravan migrants and others like them are overwhelmingly job seekers and people looking to join their families. What they're not is people fleeing violence and persecution. So the asylum 'narrrative' promoted in the press and by the leftwing lawyers now stands exposed as phony.

According to the Washington Times:

And while they are often referred to as asylum-seekers, few of the migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — the chief sending countries — are likely to end up winning asylum in the U.S., according to the study by academics at the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California, and the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Adults are most likely to come for better jobs, the researchers said. They can improve their incomes by 1,200 percent in moving from Central America to the U.S. Children, meanwhile, are coming for economic opportunities but also to reunite with family already in the U.S., they concluded.

“The standard wisdom [that] it’s all about violence could not be supported by our data,” said Detlof von Winterfeldt, a researcher at CREATE.

That's significant because the press has been playing up the asylum claims, and politicians such as California's governor-elect, has been whipping up political hay off it. Turning on the treacle, Newsom tried to frame Sunday's border charge as violence on people fleeing violence:


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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; caravan; elsalvador; guatemala; honduras; illegals; immigration; invaders; invasion; newsom; usc
BOTTOM LINE:

They just want stuff. Our stuff. Free stuff


1 posted on 11/30/2018 6:38:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They can come here. Just get in line.


2 posted on 11/30/2018 6:43:48 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind
Another blown narrative: USC study shows migrant caravan INVADING HORDES not about escaping 'violence'

Duh!

3 posted on 11/30/2018 6:44:25 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ancient Rome had this same problem.................

Learn from history or you are doomed to repeat it.............


4 posted on 11/30/2018 6:48:49 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

Monica, rapidly becoming a fav, sez, “The reality is: these guys dont’t want freedom, they’re just coming for the stuff.”

A big AMEN to you Monica. It’s been this way for years.

Hard to believe the Repubs have had the perfect setup for massive immigration reform for the last two years and little was done. President Trump has done more through his eo’s than the Repubs have. Shame on them. Now it’s too late.


5 posted on 11/30/2018 7:17:03 AM PST by upchuck (When hatred of culture becomes itself a part of culture, the life of the mind loses all meaning.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They want our stuff, but they don’t want it free.
That takes a few years in the melting pot.


6 posted on 11/30/2018 7:33:36 AM PST by CharleysPride (Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
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To: SeekAndFind

and people looking to join their families.
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Which is why we need to speed up deportations.

We do not have to wait until they are arrested and convicted of other offences.

DEPORT THEM ALL!!

BUILD THE WALL!!


7 posted on 11/30/2018 7:56:09 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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To: upchuck

Hard to believe the Repubs have had the perfect setup for massive immigration reform for the last two years and little was done.
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Not hard to believe at all.

Most of the elected GOP do not side with the citizens and the rule of law.

Bush League Republicans only care about one thing, completing the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)


8 posted on 11/30/2018 7:58:57 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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To: upchuck

And despite Flimsey Grahamnesty showing us and telling us that he sides with illegal aliens and their employers by backing every amnesty attempt since 2006, you’re going to re-elect him.


9 posted on 11/30/2018 8:00:57 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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To: SeekAndFind

When did USC go off the rails?


10 posted on 11/30/2018 8:55:47 AM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '20.)
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