Caravan migrants break up to take work in Tijuana

American Thinker ^ | 12/09/2018 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

In Tijuana, you often hear hard truths that no one would dare express here.  Get a load of this bit of jarring advice from a Tijuana man to a caravan migrant who was seeking a job in Tijuana as he waited out his asylum claim to the U.S.

"Don't come here with the mentality of Honduras," he said.  "This is a new country, a new state where you can change yourself if you want to."

Cripes, what was that person talking about?  Was the Tijuana man suggesting that Hondurans are lazy?  I've never known any Latin American immigrants who had actual jobs who were lazy – not even Venezuelans, who are often derided as that by other Latin Americans.  The Honduran immigrants we know here in the U.S. who have jobs are famously hardworking. 

What it actually suggests is that maybe the first aim of the caravan migrants wasn't about finding work, but availing themselves of U.S. benefits, which was the original objection to the project all along from the Trump administration.  The big benefit banquet was pretty much all they were capable of assimilating into in the U.S., with the caravan's advanced poverty, which meant that admitting them was to import poverty.  There are signs the migrants saw it that way, too – they came in with an entitlement mentality, according to the locals in TJ, and that was what drew the local protests.  The caravan organizers told them it would be so easy to get into America, and from there, the goodies would flow.  Human nature being what it is, they were frustrated when it didn't come.

Since it's not happening, at least for large numbers (there are people slipping in illegally), now something more practical is taking place, and it's not a bad thing:

[SeekAndFind]

The migrants, largely military-aged young men, who are so poorly equipped to succeed in America, with no education, no skills, and no language capabilities, are taking jobs in Tijuana's maquiladoras, which are capable of absorbing their limited skills and educations, with their language capacities no liability.  

[Berlin_Freeper]

The migrants, largely military-aged young men,

Soldiers of Fortune

[pfflier]

Don’t believe this for a second. They guys traveled half a hemisphere to cross our border. They are not going to quit at Tijuana. They are moving towards less secure border crossings at Calexico, Yuma and San Luis.

[VTenigma]

Caravan migrants break up to take work in Tijuana

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Horse hockey. They are splitting up to sneak over the border in small groups. No one has any intension of working.

[353FMG]

Accept work in Tijuana and wait for a chance to invade the US at a later date. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

[butlerweave]

Digging tunnels to move Drugs ?

[rockinqsranch]

OK, so they are taking jobs from the Mexican people on the border to our country as they wait for a decision on their asylum request.

So now they have jobs with which to sustain themselves as they wait the opportunity to sneak across the border.