Posted on 11/01/2018 9:06:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bandaged feet, bleeding hands, violent coughs: The caravan takes its toll
By Michael E. Miller 9-11 minutes
JUCHITAN, Mexico — The buses they were waiting for had never arrived, so now the migrant caravan was moving again — a sea of weary men, women and children, borne forward in waves by nothing more than their blistered, bleeding and bandaged feet.
As the migrants streamed past her in the pre-dawn darkness, Roxana Orellana stood on a concrete curb, rubbing the small belly that showed through her sleeveless green shirt.
The 21-year-old was five months pregnant. Her back ached and her feet throbbed from three weeks on the road. She had hoped she wouldn’t have to push her toddler’s stroller today as the sun rose and the temperature soared and her family’s water ran out.
But now that hope was gone.
“There are no buses,” she said. “So it looks like we’ll have to keep walking.”
On the 20th day of the caravan’s journey north from Central America, signs of its physical toll were everywhere — in the bright white bandages that stand out against dust-caked clothes, in the chorus of coughs that fill their camps at night, in their limping gaits and bloodshot eyes as they set out each morning.
In recent days, at least two women in the caravan have been rushed to hospitals to give birth.
As the caravan has wound its way north, it has drawn the ire of President Trump and the anxiety of federal officials in Mexico, many of whom do not want to be seen as helping migrants reach the United States in the final days before the American midterm elections.
But without buses — blocked by the Mexican federal government Wednesday night...........
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Hypocrites.............
Well, tough hop.
Rub some dirt on it.
Awwwwwww. Somebody fetch me the tiniest violin EVER. No one told you to join an invasion of the United State, honey. And, I see no mention of a “husband”. I guess you were looking for Uncle Sugar to pay for your brats, both the one on the ground and the one in your belly.
Playing the sympathy card.
The best fix would be to advise governments south of the border on how best to develop and stop being crapperholes.
Tough titty!
So the point of this article, is for us to feel sorry that nobody provided them free transportation to the border??
What the heck???
Well, the good news is Atleast two foreign babies won’t be given automatic US citizenship....wonder if Mexico had to pay the birth costs?
And they can keep their “violent” coughs in the old country. We don’t want it - or any part of them - here in ours’.
Oh, boo-hoo.
From the article you would think there were only women, children and handicapped traveling in the caravan.
Pure propoganda designed to elicit sympathy. Not gonna work.
Shoulda stayed home.
Ahhhh, that’s to bad!
Don’t try to break into another man’s house and maybe you won’t hurt yourself.
So they are walking 95 miles a day... right...
They have zero rights to demand to be here.
Zero.
Their own arrogance disqualifies them.
I have no sympathy. They can blame those who encouraged them for their misery.
Correct. After the thieves and murderers from the Central American Sh!tholes enter this country, they wreak havoc with the US citizens, taking a toll.
Go home.
“at least two women in the caravan have been rushed to hospitals to give birth.”
Better there than here. Are the kids Mexican citizens automatically now?
Pregnant women decided to walk to the US from Honduras. Genius.
Maybe they figured they’d make it here in time to deliver their new American citizen with benefits for life.
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