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TIJUANA MAYOR CALLS FOR ARREST OF CARAVAN ORGANIZERS
The Central American caravan seeking entrance to America has been wreaking havoc on Tijuana, Mexico, and the mayor of that town is now looking for justice

The Central American caravan seeking entrance to America has been wreaking havoc on Tijuana, Mexico, and the mayor of that town is now looking for justice.

Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum tells Fox News he has a “humanitarian crisis” in his town and blames the organizers from outside his community.
https://www.infowars.com/tijuana-mayor-calls-for-arrest-of-caravan-organizers/

trumphaters are despicable.
 
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Border Agents Discover Body Of 6-Year-Old Girl: “She Was Raped By 30 Men”

Published on Dec 2, 2018
Border Agents Discover Body Of 6-Year-Old Girl: “She Was Raped By 30 Men”
The body of a 6-year-old girl at the US-Mexico border had been raped by at least 30 men, according to military physicians. The discovery was made after a group of mothers decided to travel to the southern border to discover just how widespread a problem human trafficking really is. What they found was truly despicable.

Theblaze.com reports: Moms For America President Kimberly Fletcher and Aisha Owmby, the founder of Black Women Walk, organized the trip, which they hope will help others understand why they believe a wall along the U.S.-Mexico wall is needed to protect American families.

Fletcher told TheBlaze during an interview Monday evening that one of the most compelling reasons for supporting a border wall is for the children. “Kids won’t have to worry about the spray of bullets” from...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=#topstories
https://newspunch.com/border-agents-body-6-year-old-girl-raped-30-men/

Ted Cruz Introduces The WALL Act To FULLY Fund Trump’s Border Wall!

Published on Dec 7, 2018
Ted Cruz Introduces The WALL Act To FULLY Fund Trump’s Border Wall!
It was just two days ago that we reported Ted Cruz had fully burried the hatchet with Donald Trump. And now today comes word that the two are teaming up on a big effort: building the wall!

Today Sen. Cruz officially introduced The WALL Act, which will fully fund the border and close existing border loopholes! Love it Ted, great work! Take a look at his announcements on Twitter: The WALL Act would fully fund the border wall by closing existing loopholes that provide illegal immigrants with federal benefits and tax credits, without affecting the benefits and tax credits used by Americans. — https://t.co/ZdojM81stg — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) December 6, 2018 From Ted's official Senate website. U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and John Kennedy (R...
 
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Mexico pledges $30 billion in development aid in part to deter migration

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's new government - under pressure from the Trump administration to curb illegal immigration to the U.S. - will pump more than $30 billion into development for southern Mexico, an investment plan meant in part to deter illicit migration from Central America, the country's top diplomat said Monday.
Speaking at a global migration conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard pledged that Mexico would embark on a five-year investment scheme for job-creating projects in impoverished southern Mexico that would also help spur development in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Those three so-called Northern Triangle nations account for most U.S.-bound migrants, including members of the controversial "caravans" that have converged on Tijuana, Mexico.
The idea, Ebrard said, was to reduce poverty - a major root cause of migration - and thus cut an incentive for people to leave their homelands.
Mexico hopes to "compete in a successful way with the narrative that is being imposed in much of the world, including in the Americas, that the best way to confront migration is to exclude it and control it," Ebrard, accompanied by Central American diplomats, said in Marrakech.
But Mexico's new foreign secretary did not specify how money spent in the south of his nation would aid development in Central America. Authorities said more specifics would be available in coming weeks.
No additional U.S. aid was mentioned, but Ebrard said other countries had expressed "much interest" in the plan.
The plan comes as the Trump administration increases pressure on Mexico to take more forceful actions to halt Central American migration. President Donald Trump has threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico and cut off aid to Central American countries if asylum seekers and others continue to press for entry into the United States.
Meanwhile, talks continued between Mexican government representatives and Trump administration officials as Washington seeks to implement a new policy that would force Central American asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their claims are processed.
U.S. immigrant advocates question the legality of the Trump administration plan - known as "Remain in Mexico."
Mexico has resisted this proposal, which the White House views as a means to reduce escalating numbers of Central Americans trying to enter U.S. territory. Some Mexican officials are wary of acceding to Trump's wishes and placing a new burden on the country's northern border towns.
Ebrard met this month in Washington with Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, but no new agreement on migration has been announced.
Asked how the negotiations were proceeding, a State Department spokesperson said, "The United States enjoys excellent cooperation with Mexico on a broad range of political, security, migration and economic issues. Secretary Pompeo speaks frequently with his Mexican counterpart."
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador unveiled a "comprehensive development plan" for the three Central American nations on Dec. 1, the day of his inauguration. But his foreign secretary's comments on Monday mark the first official commitment of Mexican funds to the project - though all of the money, at least for now, appears earmarked for Mexico.
"This (plan) at least deals with the fact that you can't stop migrants from coming unless you create conditions to allow them to stay at home," said Maureen Meyer at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy organization.
The new development program does not appear to address the issue of crime in Central America, another major factor in pushing migrants northward. And it was unclear what if any anti-corruption safeguards would be envisioned if additional aid were sent to Central America, where graft has long been a major problem.
Eric Olson, a consultant to the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, called Mexico's sweeping plans more "notional" than actual, noting that the country was already facing major financial challenges on a number of fronts.
Lopez Obrador has announced a number of costly new infrastructure and social welfare programs for Mexico, though he has also said that the country was "bankrupt." Many observers are skeptical of his vows to fund his ambitious agenda by reducing corruption and cutting government spending.
The topic of migration remains a sensitive one in Mexico, long a major source of immigrants - going both legally and illegally - to the United States.
Mexico's new president has consistently vowed to respect the "human rights" of migrants and argued that job-creating investment - not increased law enforcement - was the best means to deter illicit migration. He has offered to provide working papers and temporary residency for Central Americans living in Mexico.
"We want migration to be optional, and not an obligation," Lopez Obrador said repeatedly before taking office.
Lopez Obrador's predecessor, former President Enrique Pena Nieto, complied with U.S. demands to bolster enforcement along Mexico's southern border with Guatemala. Mexican authorities have deported tens of thousands of Central Americans in recent years, drawing charges that Mexico City was doing Washington's "dirty work" along its southern frontier.
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So much for the new President being pro open borders and pro migration.
 
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I would think the ones that were meant to be spirited into the US area already having their 1st BBQ and hooker.
 
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Bit closer to the subject than I want to get.

I was hoping for a softwood lumber fence build by the side that will scale it the most, the Mexicans
 
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U.S. immigration officials: 7-year-old girl who died in custody had not appeared ill
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December 14, 2018
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December 14, 2018 9:56 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol agent patrols Sunland Park along the U.S.-Mexico border next to Ciudad Juarez. A 7-year-old girl who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her father, died after being taken into the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol, federal immigration authorities confirmed Thursday, Dec. 13.Russell Contreras / AP
WASHINGTON — Just 7 years old, Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin was picked up by U.S. authorities with her father and other migrants this month in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. Some seven hours later, she was put on a bus to the nearest Border Patrol station but soon began vomiting. By the end of the two-hour drive, she had stopped breathing.
Jakelin hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for days, her father later told U.S. officials.
The death of the Guatemalan girl is the latest demonstration of the desperation of a growing number of Central American families and children showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border, often hoping to claim asylum, and it raises new questions about how well authorities are prepared.
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Customs and Border Protection said Friday that the girl initially appeared healthy and that an interview raised no signs of trouble. Authorities said her father spoke in Spanish to Border agents and signed a form indicating she was in good health, though a Guatemalan official said late Friday that the family’s native language was a Mayan dialect.
CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said agents “did everything in their power” to save her.
The episode drew immediate questions from members of Congress and others about whether more could have been done. There were only four agents working with a group of 163 migrants, including 50 unaccompanied children, and only one bus to take them to the nearest station 94 miles away. The protocols the agents followed failed to alert them to any signs of distress until it was too late.
“A 7-year-old girl should not be dying of dehydration and shock in Customs and Border Protection custody,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted.
The Rev. John L. McCullough, president of Church World Service, said her death was a result of “the administration’s immoral war on immigrants.” He declared, “People don’t walk thousands of miles unless they are desperate for freedom at the end of their journey.”
The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general opened an investigation, and congressional leaders promised one as well.
The girl and her father, 29-year-old Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz, were arrested with the large group near the Antelope Wells border crossing at about 9:15 p.m. Dec. 6. The rugged, mountainous area is home to ghost towns and abandoned buildings from Old West homesteader days. It’s an unforgiving terrain where Geronimo made his last stand and remains largely isolated with no cell service and few unpaved roads. The sparsely used official port of entry is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The group was held at one of 17 “forward operating bases” in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — spartan facilities built in recent years to increase official U.S. presence in extremely remote areas. Agents live there on weeklong assignments because driving back and forth every day from their stations would consume enormous amounts of time.
Jakelin and her father were held in the facility with food and water but no medical aid.
CBP officials say the drive from Antelope Wells to the nearest Border Patrol station in Lordsburg can take hours.
With the migrants, the agents went over an intake form that reads: “Receiving screening will be performed by professional or paraprofessional personnel trained to recognize the state of conscious, quality of gross motor function, fever or other signs of illness upon arrival at the facility.”
According to the form, the girl showed no sign of illness. She was not sweating, had no tremors, jaundice or visible trauma and was mentally alert.
“Claims good health,” the form reads. Jakelin’s father appeared to have signed the form, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
The final question is whether she should be in a general population, referred for non-emergency medical care or referred for emergency medical care. The “general population” box is checked.
Arresting such large groups poses logistical problems for agents, who have to wait on transport vans that are equipped with baby seats to take the migrants to processing facilities, some which are far from the border.
There is a single bus that transports migrants to and from this area to the base in Lordsburg, and, following protocol, the other minors filled the first bus while the daughter and her father waited.
It’s not clear whether Jakelin ate or drank anything while in custody.
The father and daughter did not board the bus until 4:30 a.m. She began vomiting at 5. The bus continued — there was no way to receive medical care where they were, officials said — and radioed ahead to have emergency medical technicians available when they arrived in Lordsburg. By the time they arrived, at 6:30, she had stopped breathing.
Emergency crews revived her, and she was airlifted to an El Paso, Texas, hospital, while the father was driven there. The girl died at about 12:30 a.m. Dec. 8. Officials said she had swelling on her brain and liver failure. An autopsy was scheduled to determine the cause of death. The results could take weeks.
CBP said Friday it didn’t immediately publicize the death out of respect for the family but is reviewing its disclosure practices. Commissioner McAleenan didn’t mention the girl’s death when he was questioned by senators this week on border issues.
“The agents involved are deeply affected and empathize with the father over the loss of his daughter,” McAleenan said Friday. “We cannot stress enough the dangers posed by travelling long distances, in crowded transportation, or in the natural elements through remote desert areas without food, water and other supplies.”
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley described Jakelin’s death as “a horrific, tragic situation” and called for “commonsense laws to disincentivize people from coming up from the border,” crossing illegally.
Guatemalan consular officials said they had spoken with the father who was deeply upset. Tekandi Paniagua, the Guatemalan consul in Del Rio, Texas, told Univision said the family’s native language was Ki’che’, a Mayan dialect spoken in the country’s highlands.
Arrests in the U.S. have surged since summer, with many prospective migrants coming from the highlands, where Mayan dialects flourish.
In many ways, the group of 163 migrants that included the girl offers a snapshot of how dramatically the border has changed in recent years. In November, there were 51,001 arrests of people entering the country illegally from Mexico — the highest of Donald Trump’s presidency — and more than half were travelling as families or unaccompanied children.
It was unclear if any in the group expressed fear of returning home, but families and children increasingly seek out agents to pursue asylum or other humanitarian protection, avoiding an often life-threatening effort to elude capture in remote areas.
The Trump administration has made curbing illegal immigration a signature issue — and some advocates say its policies are prompting more people to cross in perilous ways. Immigration officials say their system is strained and not equipped to handle such a high volume of families who can’t be easily returned, but there is resistance to suggestions to change facilities to better accommodate families. The government notes there are many other border missions, including trade, commerce and counterterror efforts.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/7-year-old-immigrant-girl-dies-after-u-s-border-patrol-arrest
 
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To put a face on this little girl... Jakelin Amei Rosemery Caal Maquin. Died in hands of Border Patrol.
 
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