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Among those who have been dissuaded, at least for now, is Natali, 32, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she feared for her safety. Speaking from her modest apartment atop a steep hill in western Tijuana, she explained that she and her husband had fled their home in El Progreso, Honduras, after she witnessed a murder carried out by a local criminal gang. Soon after, she began to receive threats in the mail warning her to keep quiet.

Once in Mexico, they heard about the increasingly long odds of receiving asylum in the United States, and feared more than anything that officials there would return them to their home country. Rather than crossing the border, they decided to seek humanitarian visas to remain in Mexico legally for at least one year, and have slowly begun to build a life.

She still believes she might ask for asylum in the United States, but is realistic about her chances. “I like Tijuana,” she said. “It’s a very pretty city and there’s a lot of work.” More than anything, she fears the United States would deport her back to Honduras.

Work in Tijuana ... she speaks the local language ... safe from Honduran criminals. Sounds like a legitimate refugee who is in an appropriate spot.

...she witnessed a murder carried out by a local criminal gang. Soon after, she began to receive threat...

She'd most likely end up living in an urban American city run by Democrats where she will be just as likely to experience the exact same thing same thing

What country will she flee to then?

I really hope and pray that Latin America learns how to fix its own ills rather than cruising along in corruption and using the USA as a too-easy emergency escape valve.

Too often, the permission to do something turns into something like an expectation to do it, which is what open borders advocates seem to rarely see. If you are Honduran and we are Honduras and we can sweep you out the door to the USA and you are inconvenient — we will sweep you out the door.

Faith in God and not in idols will have to top the list of social desiderata. A government shouldn’t run a church, but it should make it as easy as possible for the church to run.

Wow, how bad do things have to be where someone came from for them to describe Tijuana as “pretty”? That said, Mexico is the perfect refuge for these folks and I do wish the non-criminal ones well. Just don’t want them here, however.