Migrant Caravan Masses Near Mexico's Southern Border

with trump's threats to send the military to the border if something doesn't get worked out.

as I posted yesterday. Not to mention closing the border as threatened.

The repukes are going to use this as an October surprise to turn out their voters in November. Undocumented Immigration has been a big voting incentive for the orange maggot.

Which means that if Mexico doesn't stop them... they will likely arrive at the US border in about a week or two ( just in time for a "border immigrant crises" to hit the news just days before the midterm election).

I would not be surprised to find that certain right wing groups here have paid for the passage and the creation of this caravan just to highlight the issue for Trump voters.

Not that the refugees aren't fleeing for their lives... they are... but the passage costs money...

These people aren't carrying any belongings. Something is very strange here. How are they staying fed?

Hearing firsthand from some of these folks is very illuminating.

travellers, but where do they expect to live if they get to the US? Where will they work? Do they speak English? Do they think the US can give them housing and jobs? Something must be done to help them I agree, but did they not pass through any towns on their journey, that they could have settled in? Why the US?

Are you seriously asking this question?

Thousands of migrants who’ve trekked from Honduras in hopes of making it to the United States broke down a metal gate at the Mexico-Guatemala border Friday afternoon, according to a report. The caravan of migrants rushed toward a border bridge in Mexico just after noon local time — as hundreds of federal police and Guatemalan cops in riot gear stood guard.

The scores of men, women and children waved Honduran flags and chanted, “One way or another, we will pass” and “We are not smugglers, we are immigrants” as they gathered along the muddy Suchiate River.

The group then rushed a border bridge about 150 yards away, with about 50 people pushing their way through as police unleashed pepper spray. Some members of the caravan also threw rocks. “We need you to stop the aggression,” a federal police officer yelled at the crowd from a loudspeaker.

Luis Manuel Lopez Moreno, Mexico’s ambassador to Guatemala, said his country would enforce a policy of “metered entry” and agreed to grant humanitarian and asylum visas to the migrants, the Wall Street Journal reported. Moreno said some 100 migrants a day would be allowed into the country to have their asylum requests reviewed.

The process will allow them to enter Mexico legally until their cases are resolved and let them travel freely about the country. If approved, they’ll be permitted to stay in Mexico permanently.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/19/migrant-caravan-heading-for-us-turns-around-in-mexico/

Migrant caravan clashes with Mexican police

Tapachula, Mexico (CNN)Honduran migrants in a massive caravan surged across a bridge leading to Mexico on Friday before they were halted in a chaotic confrontation with a phalanx of Mexican police in riot gear.

Chanting and cheering migrants pushed through or climbed over a steel gate until police threw tear gas and smoke canisters and pushed the migrants back. Video showed coughing and weeping migrants collapsed on the bridge. Several police and an undetermined number of migrants were injured.





https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/americas/caravan-mexico-border/index.html

against violent immigrants? Wonderful.