Migrant Caravan

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They didn't even make it to the border yet how did they protest Carlson? Or did you change the conversation from the Carlson protestor's back to the Caravan?
 
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Is the Army going to move that thousand miles over to where the caravan is or are they going to bus the migrants over to where the Army is?

Some deluge. Somebody screwed up, again.
 
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Mother in migrant caravan makes appeal to Trump: "Open the doors for us, I beg you"

With each passing day, more migrants make it to Mexico's side of the U.S.-Mexico border. But for those who make it across, another difficult journey through the American asylum process, which requires them to prove they've fled persecution at home, awaits.
More than 75 percent of asylum cases from Central America were denied from 2012 to 2017, CBS News' Adriana Diaz reports.
Those odds aren't deterring a Nicaraguan family that Diaz met in Mexico. They hope to receive political asylum in the U.S.
When asked why, Idenia Molina Rocha held up a newspaper. She said it shows her family on the front page, along with a photo of their home. They support those who are against their president, and they're being persecuted for those beliefs.
Rocha claims that pro-government forces opened fire on her 14-year-old son in July and detonated a homemade bomb that lodged shrapnel in his leg, forcing him to hobble on crutches along the caravan route. Rocha's son said he was with a friend when they were shot at. He said his friend pushed him down and was killed. When they retreated to the mountains, he said people helped take the shrapnel out with nail clippers, but he thinks there are still pieces in his leg.
Rocha said "wanted" signs for her family were posted in town, so they left Nicaragua, traversed Guatemala and eventually made it to southern Mexico. They stayed there a month and then word spread about a caravan approaching.
Rocha, appealing directly to President Trump, said, "I would get on my knees and beg."
"Don't send us back," she said. "We're walking and scared. You say you will militarize the border but I pray to God that with our evidence of persecution you won't send us back. I fear for my family's life. Please Mr. Trump, open the doors for us, I beg you."
After using the issue of migrant caravans as an election campaign issue, Mr. Trump has once again focused on it. In a series of tweets Friday, he questioned the motive of migrants who are planning to seek asylum in the U.S., calling it a "BIG CON."
One woman told CBS News' Diaz she won't cross illegally but will instead seek asylum at an official port of entry. She's part of a group of LGBT migrants that is among the early arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border. Many said they were persecuted in their home countries because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Earlier in the journey in southern Mexico, Diaz met a transgender woman who claims she was targeted in Honduras by gang members and was attacked by more than a dozen armed men who broke into her home. She said she's been beaten up and has a scar from the attack but doesn't like to show it because it traumatizes her more. She fears for her life in Honduras since the gang members know where she lives and have a photo of her.
Still, if she makes it to the U.S. border and presents her asylum case, the odds are against her.
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Migrants met with fear, disdain in Tijuana, Mexico

TIJUANA, Mexico — In 2016, when as many as 3,000 Haitians who fled Hurricane Matthew ended up stuck in Tijuana without a legal way north, locals and leaders offered housing, clothing and jobs.
"It's something people in Tijuana would cite with pride," said Everard Meade, director of the Trans Border Institute at the University of San Diego. He summarizes Tijuana's response: "The United States couldn't do anything for them, but we did."
Mexico has long been a welcoming crossroads of the Americas with Tijuana its northern beacon. But this time, with an estimated 10,000 Central American migrants aiming to cross the U.S. border, good will is fading and hostility is growing.
Tijuana's conservative mayor, Juan Manuel Gastelum, has complained bitterly about the influx, local news outlets have asked who organized the caravan and social media platforms have spread stories of Central Americans using drugs.
"Human rights should be reserved for righteous humans," Gastelum said last week.
Like many places in the world, Tijuana has been infatuated with the kind of neo-nationalism embraced by President Trump, and some political leaders are all too willing to tap it for headlines, Meade said.
"Trump has infected the mayor of Tijuana," said Enrique Morones, founder of Border Angels, a pro-migrant group with members in the U.S. and Mexico.
On Wednesday, not-in-my-backyard locals in upper-middle-class Playas de Tijuana neighborhood, where some migrants are staying, clashed physically with some of the newcomers.
There are a lot of expressions of xenophobia against them," said Victor Clark-Alfaro, a San Diego State University Latin American studies professor who lives in Tijuana." There's a division in our society because there are more people who residents don't want to be here."
Protesters planned to rally Sunday at the monument to Aztec ruler Cuauhtémoc in the city's Zona Rio shopping and nightlife district against the estimated 2,600 migrants in Tijuana
At a news conference Saturday outside Border Angels' Playas de Tijuana migrant shelter, the group's president emeritus, Sara Gurling, called the mayor's quip on human rights "very dangerous."
"People of good conscience need to be calling on this mayor to stop these words," she said. "He's calling on the worst of the human spirit to rise up against the most vulnerable."
But the mayor found an issue that resonates. He has generated headlines in the United States, where the conservative Daily Caller noted that Gastelum describes the Central American migrants as an unwelcome "horde."
Santiago Alvarado, 29, watched the pro-migrant news conference with skepticism.
"People are afraid to come here," he said, surveying a beach divided by bollards that mark the border. Alvarado said the caravan was filled with MS-13 gang members, a claim discounted by those traveling with the migrants. "They have a lot of mara salvatruchas."
He echoed another claim among some of the migrants' critics in Tijuana: "They're not thankful for what people have done for them."
"This country is not yours," he said.
Meade of the University of San Diego said that while local and state governments might not have the resources to help the migrants, it won't likely become a humanitarian crisis in Tijuana, as some have predicted.
He said there are thousands of job openings, particularly in the manufacturing and construction industries, in Tijuana, a metro area with up to 2 million residents.
"Anyone can work in Tijuana right now," he said.
Some in Playas de Tijuana are upset because the caravan inspired Trump to harden border crossings by closing lanes at the Southwest ports of entry, making life miserable for an estimated 30,000 Tijuana residents who work in the United States.
"I was born and raised in Tijuana," said resident Marco-Antonio Gonzalez, 47, who said his two sons were living in the United States as citizens. "The way this [caravan] was done was disrespectful. They cause trouble. We don't know who they are."
He said he's seen migrants toss unwanted food and discard donated clothing that's not brand-name.
"You have to be humble," Gonzalez said.
But Honduran Freddy Mendez, 33, said he only came to Tijuana to get to the other side. He emphasized he was thankful even though he's faced "a lot of criticism" here.
"Yo soy muy agradecido," he said — "I am very grateful."
As migrants set up tents at a local sports park and others stayed in churches and the half-dozen shelters in the area, Border Angels' leader in Tijuana, Hugo Castro, said, "There's an environment of fear."
The travelers have been on foot for weeks, sometimes for 12 or more hours a day, he said, and that might mean they don't appear to be enthusiastic.
"They are very tired," Castro said.
On the beach, families frolicked in the water. The fall sun was brighter than chrome. A mariscos joint blasted a cumbia version of native son Carlos Santana's "Oye Como Va" on a loudspeaker.
Even as she kneeled in the sand to help a new arrival translate paperwork, Tijuana resident Audra Farias complained, "It's too many people."
The person she was helping was Leonel Lagos, 23, of Honduras, who carried photocopies of pictures of his gutted home, destroyed by gangsters who were trying to shake him down. He was hoping to apply for asylum in the U.S.
Asked if it was true that migrants were doing drugs and displaying ungrateful attitudes, Lagos, who appeared to be exhausted as he slumped on the beach, surrounded by the curious, shrugged.
"I just got here," he said.
It's unlikely the migrants will be granted asylum, experts say, but those who make it to the border crossing will be greeted with a sculpture, modeled after Philadelphia's Robert Indiana LOVE sculpture. It reads TJTQ, for Tijuana Loves You.
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Looks like the bums, gang bangers, child traffickers, and IRANian terrorists made the long walk for nothing after all...


As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans

SALINAS, Calif. — As a boy, Abel Montoya remembers his father arriving home from the lettuce fields each evening, the picture of exhaustion, mud caked knee-high on his trousers. “Dad wanted me to stay away from manual labor. He was keen for me to stick to the books,” Mr. Montoya said. So he did, and went to college.

Yet Mr. Montoya, a 28-year-old immigrant’s son, recently took a job at a lettuce-packing facility, where it is wet, loud, freezing — and much of the work is physically taxing, even mind-numbing.

Now, though, he can delegate some of the worst work to robots.

Mr. Montoya is among a new generation of farmworkers here at Taylor Farms, one of the world’s largest producers and sellers of fresh-cut vegetables, which recently unveiled a fleet of robots designed to replace humans — one of the agriculture industry’s latest answers to a diminishing supply of immigrant labor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/us/farmworkers-immigrant-labor-robots.html



HEH, so we need robots because of "vanishing migrant labor"?
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wow, the press is really wrecked on propaganda crack these days.
 
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Trump to give troops authority to protect border agents

President Donald Trump is expected to grant new authority to US troops on the Southwest border with Mexico to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel from migrants if they engage in violence, according to two defense officials and another US official directly familiar with the plans. An additional administration official tells CNN that the authority will also authorize protection of federal property.
Currently troops do not have any authorities that would allow them to intervene if CBP personnel came under attack unless they need to act in their own self-defense.
There are 5,800 to 5,900 troops assigned to the border mission.
The move could be announced as soon as Monday evening, officials said. The mission will be characterized solely as "protection of CBP" personnel, according to the administration official.
This comes as Department of Homeland Security officials said Monday that they had started to get information from "multiple sources including individuals in the Mexican government" of potential waves or groups of individuals who were discussing an incursion into legal ports of entry in California by attempting to pass through vehicle lanes.
Any potential use of force by US troops to protect CBP personnel must be "proportional," the official said.
It is expected the Pentagon and US Northern Command will amend the current document detailing the rules governing the "use of force" on the border mission.
All three officials are adamant that the change is not about troops firing weapons at migrants crossing the border. Instead the new rules will be aimed at providing the basic authorities to allow for protective measures. Previously troops did not have any authorities that would allow them to intervene if CBP personnel came under attack.
The Pentagon has been working for the last several days on options for how troops can protect CBP.
The defense officials are also emphasizing that National Guard forces activated by governors, as well as state and local civilian law enforcement authorities in a given area, should be relied upon as much as possible.
DHS spokesperson Katie Waldman told CNN, "As Secretary Nielsen has said, we will not allow our frontline personnel to be in harm's way. We will do everything we can to protect those who defend our nation's sovereignty and secure our border. We appreciate the Department of Defense stepping in to assist the Department of Homeland Security as needed."
The White House did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
Last week while visiting troops along the Texas border, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said CBP is doing "all the work, but we're standing behind them as a confidence builder," referring to the request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide support.
More than 2,000 Central American migrants arrived in the border city of Tijuana in recent days, and about 3,000 more migrants are estimated to be in Mexicali, Mexico, another border city about 100 miles away, a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman told CNN.
As CNN has previously reported, the Department of Homeland Security originally asked the Pentagon to provide protection for CBP but that request was turned down by Mattis because it was deemed by the Pentagon to be asking troops to perform law enforcement duties that needed to be directly approved by President Trump. At the time of the original request, the Defense Department said that if Homeland Security officials still wanted troops to perform a protection role, they should ask the White House to formally grant the Pentagon the authorities to perform those additional functions.
At the outset the troops were assigned to provide assistance to Customs and Border Protection including engineering support with building temporary barriers, barricades and fencing, providing aviation support to move US Customs and Border Protection personnel, providing medical teams to triage, treat and prepare for commercial transport of patients and constructing temporary housing and personal protective equipment for CBP personnel.
Last week CNN reported that the US troops on the Texas border with Mexico were close to finishing their assigned task of reinforcing border crossing points, largely with concertina wire.
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I'm shocked that the Libs are so silent about what is going on in Tijuana, Mexico.


And where is Trudeau on this? No offers?


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EagleSmack said:
I'm shocked that the Libs are so silent about what is going on in Tijuana, Mexico.
And where is Trudeau on this? No offers?
*snicker*
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The US Army is packing up and leaving the Mexican border, now that the Mid-Term Elections have been concluded.

*snicker*
 
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