[ April 19, 2024 ]
Hostile invasion.
Hundreds of migrants apparently try rushing toward California port of entry, as Trump threatens to close entire border
Images and videos posted on social media Sunday afternoon appeared to show hundreds of migrants from the leading Central American caravan rushing the border at the port of entry in San Ysidro, Calif., in a major test for both U.S. border authorities and Mexican officials.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have suspended northbound and southbound vehicle and pedestrian crossings at the San Ysidro port of entry, officials told Fox News. It was not immediately clear if any members of the caravan made it past the port of entry into the United States.
Fox News had confirmed early Sunday through an organizer for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the group helping organize the leading Central American migrant caravan, that members of the caravan were planning to attempt to cross the port of entry at San Ysidro on Sunday afternoon.Hundreds try to storm the border. Expect significant US response #tijuana pic.twitter.com/0T50XUnXtY
— Emma Murphy (@emmamurphyitv) November 25, 2018
Footage posted by ITV correspondent Emma Murphy also seemingly showed several Border Patrol helicopters flying near the Mexican side of the border. In anticipation of the planned migrant effort, U.S. border officials said they had deployed additional personnel to the San Ysidro port of entry on Sunday, including Air and Marine agents.
Other video showed migrants pushing toward a border fence chanting, “Yes we can.”
The major escalation came as Mexico’s incoming government denied reports Saturday that it had struck a deal with the White House to keep asylum-seekers in the country while their claims move through U.S. immigration courts. President Trump, for his part, again threatened to close the entire southern border if no deal could be reached between the two counties.
On Saturday, the first episode of caravan-related violence directed at U.S. authorities was reported by U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona, as a 31-year-old Honduran man who apparently split off from the caravan threw rocks at agents and a helicopter after setting a tree on fire.
Us military helicopters all over Mexican side of border now. Normal protocol bars this. pic.twitter.com/q5mfnmvX1z
— Emma Murphy (@emmamurphyitv) November 25, 2018
The prospective deal between the U.S. and Mexico was seen as a way to dissuade thousands of Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S., a process that can take years. The legal bar for claiming asylum is high and generally requires applicants to show a specific risk of persecution based on factors such as race, nationality, politics or religion.
Migrants break past a line of police as they run toward the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, near the San Ysidro entry point into the U.S. More than 5,000 migrants are camped in and around a sports complex in Tijuana after making their way through Mexico in recent weeks via caravan. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Trump administration officials have characterized the vast majority of asylum claims as fraudulent or legally insufficient, and have taken steps to reduce the backlog of asylum claims that they say are often used by migrants to gain entry into the U.S. and disappear into the country as their claims are adjudicated.
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“There is no agreement of any sort between the incoming Mexican government and the U.S. government,” future Interior Minister Olga Sanchez said in a statement.
Hours earlier, The Washington Post quoted her as saying that the incoming administration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had agreed to allow migrants to stay in Mexico as a “short-term solution” while the U.S. considered their applications for asylum. Lopez Obrador will take office on Dec. 1.
Migrants wave at U.S. border control helicopters flying near the Benito Juarez Sports Center serving as a temporary shelter for Central American migrants, in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and says that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived in the city.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that the Trump administration has won support from the Mexican president-elect’s team for a plan dubbed “Remain in Mexico.”
The newspaper also quoted Sanchez as saying: “For now, we have agreed to this policy of Remain in Mexico.” Sanchez did not explain in the statement why The Washington Post had quoted her as saying there had been an agreement.
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Early Sunday, Trump wrote on Twitter that it would be “very SMART” for Mexico to “stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border” to avoid future logistics challenges at the border.
There were signs last week that the Mexican government has received that message. Mexican immigration agents on Wednesday detained almost all of the Central American migrants on a fourth caravan that recently entered Mexico seeking to reach the U.S., with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute saying 213 migrants were detained and taken to a processing center. Those found to lack proper documents may face repatriation to their home countries.
Would be very SMART if Mexico would stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border, or if originating countries would not let them form (it is a way they get certain people out of their country and dump in U.S. No longer). Dems created this problem. No crossings!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2018
Other administration officials sounded notes of optimism despite the apparent confusion on how to handle the migrants.
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“President Trump has developed a strong relationship with the incoming [Lopez] Obrador administration, and we look forward to working with them on a wide range of issues,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said over the weekend.
Approximately 5,000 Central American migrants have arrived in recent days to Tijuana, just south of California, after making their way through Mexico via caravan. But agents at the San Diego port of entry process fewer than 100 claims per day.
Seven-year-old Honduran migrant Genesis Belen Mejia Flores waves an American flag at U.S. border control helicopters flying overhead near the Benito Juarez Sports Center serving as a temporary shelter for Central American migrants, in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and says that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived in the city. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
On Friday, the mayor of Tijuana declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city of 1.6 million people, saying he was asking the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants, most of whom were camped out inside a sports complex.
The comments by Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum came as city officials and volunteers worked together to assist the 4,976 men, women and children who had arrived after more than a month on the road.
Hundreds of Tijuana residents have protested their arrival, complaining that recent caravans forced their way into Mexico from Guatemala.
Trump threatened Thursday, and again on Saturday, to shut down the border crossing entirely if his administration determines that Mexico has lost “control” of the situation in Tijuana.
Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin, described the Remain in Mexico plan as a strategy to take away the ability of migrants to live and work in the U.S. while cases are processed.
“The hope is that asylum seekers will not want to live in [Mexico] for months/years and won’t come,” Leutert wrote on Twitter.
She added: “The big question is why would Mexico agree to this? … Mexico has its own migratory enforcement interests and the various caravans have been a huge headache.”
U.S. officials have said for months that they were working with Mexico on possible proposals. One variation, called “Safe Third,” would have denied asylum claims on the grounds that asylum seekers had found haven in Mexico. President Enrique Pena Nieto offered thousands of Central Americans asylum on Oct. 26 if they agreed to remain in southern Mexico. Close to 3,000 migrants took Mexico up on the offer.
Sanchez said Saturday that the next government does not plan for Mexico to become a “Safe Third” country.
Julieta Vences, a congresswoman with Lopez Obrador’s Morena party who is also president of Mexico’s congressional migrant affairs commission, told the AP that incoming Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has been discussing with U.S. officials how to handle a deluge of asylum claims at the border.
“They’re going to have to open the borders (for the migrants) to put in the request,” Vences said. “They will also give us dates, on what terms they will receive the (asylum) requests and in the case that they are not beneficiaries of this status, they will have to return here,” Vences said.
She said Mexico needs to examine how to accommodate the migrants without angering locals.
“When they come back, we need to see how … we can integrate them into an economic activity so that they can develop and not generate conflict with our own communities.”
Local churches and charities have been feeding the migrants, with assistance from state and federal agencies. They also have distributed thousands of blankets, thin mattresses and personal hygiene kits.
Trump reiterated on Twitter Saturday that he plans to do away with the U.S. catch-and-release system, which allows asylum seekers to work and study sometimes for years while their cases are pending.
“Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court,” Trump wrote. “We only will allow those who come into our Country legally. Other than that our very strong policy is Catch and Detain. No ‘Releasing’ into the U.S.”
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33 Comments
5 years ago
CLOSE THE BORDER, NOW!
This is a freaking INVASION!
They are testing us…..
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
They are ‘testing’ our resolve-which I predict will weaken significantly when Democrats are seated for their new terms in office. This thing is going downhill at breakneck speed. America will never be the same…
5 years ago
why the hell would the Mexicans want the Guatemalans “cutting their grass” pun intended?
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
So predictable!
Media Begin Full Propaganda Push to Create Victim Narrative around Migrants…
Posted on November 25, 2018 by sundance
With a migration force consisting of 95% military-aged males, the media photo journalists, aka. ‘optical narrative engineers’, desperately seek out pictures of the few women and children to accompany their print propaganda
…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/11/25/media-begin-full-propaganda-push-to-create-victim-narrative-around-migrants/#more-157020
5 years ago
Don’t allow any of these parasites in, repel them by any means necessary . If these parasites are finally allowed in, then you can bet that others of their countrymen will come in waves after them. Then I believe that the storm clouds that have been gathering for some time will come to a real day of reckoning.
5 years ago
Reply to
bill svara
The Muslim who mowed down the bikers and runners on that path in NY had “won” the immigration lottery….in the short time he was here he managed to bring in 27 of his relatives…..no telling how many of each of them brought in others…..that is what has to stop.
5 years ago
More Democrat voters….
OT;
Lest there be any doubt about the wicked witch of the West, Theresa May, I found this over at Breitbart:
Theresa May Refuses Asylum for Pakistani Christian Hunted by Lynch Mobs to Appease British Muslims
5 years ago
Reply to
Guessed Worker
Geesh…Yes, it is to appease the little demons known as Muslims.
I thought Italy was taking her in.
5 years ago
Reply to
Guessed Worker
T. May is a coward and a Cnut of the highest order and is guilty of plotting and double dealing against the British people in favour of the EU.
If she is allowed to sign the UN Migrant Compact in December then it’s another nail in the coffin of Britain and freedom.
THE WITCH NEEDS TO BURN!
5 years ago
Reply to
Guessed Worker
Maybe one should offer these savages a swap deal, Theresa May for the far more valuable girl.
5 years ago
One of the questions that should be asked is what groups and associations are supporting this large migration of people from Mexico to the United States. What were these people told that is motivating them to travel in this caravan to the United States? Is it possible that George Soros and the Open Society Foundation are involved in this? George Soros and the Open Society Foundation is already involved in a lot of the Muslim migration into Europe.
5 years ago
Reply to
David Grisez
What does Open Society mean , we know what it means, it is people coming to Western countries and not only getting everything free but also believing they can do anything they like. Committing crimes, rapes etc. That is what they are told by their friends and relatives and their clerics as well
5 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
The meaning is people replacement and it’s a world wide initiative.
This is the American front’ the European front is dealing with muslim and African migrants as is Australia.
And If T. May is allowed to sign the UN Migrant Compact in December then Britain’s problems multiply massively.
5 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
Even if I were not a veteran, for this gaggle to attempt to breach the border of a country not their homeland while waving the banner of a foreign sovereign still fits all the basic definitions of an invasion instead of a “humanitarian crisis”.
5 years ago
Reply to
David Grisez
It’s been reported that the main group organizing this is PEOPLE WITHOUT BORDERS; a globalist organization. It has also been reported that a lot of their funding comes from Soros. So, you got two or three globalists groups funding this.
Also, I follow Ann Corcoran’s site: Refugee Resettlement Watch. She has been tracking this for 11 years; including where Obummer put all the Muslim “refugees” in America. Most of her information points to the Catholic/Lutheran churches pouring in Muslims and Hispanics into our country….other organizations in the US receiving our tax dollars to bring in and “resettle” these invaders in our states and towns….
5 years ago
Reply to
David Grisez
In order to create embarrassment and problems for Trump one can be sure that the Clinton/Obama mob is involved with that as well.
5 years ago
As we in Europe discovered, there is no way to stop these illegal invasions at your border, you have to stop them much further back because if you let 100 in, how do you say “no” to the rest ?
America like us in UK is under siege and it’s only going to take the clown in Canada to organise flights northwards from Mexico for the open borders to be discovered there too.
These Soros organisations have to have cases brought against them before being shut down, likewise the UN top people behind this have to be subject to law because this cannot go on, it’s organised anarchy.
5 years ago
Despite what the left and their media lapdogs wish, the decision on who enters the US and who not constitutionally rests with the Executive branch, namely the President. Search “Section 1182”, subtitled “Inadmissible Aliens.”
Try living down here in close proximity to the Mexican border unarmed. I dare anyone.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
5 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
At least you have a clear view and clear vision of who the enemy is and how they are coming at you over the border.
Here in Las Vegas and around the country you have no idea which foreign person is legal or illegal….whether they are dangerous or not….I no longer go out at night and am very careful where I go in the daytime….
In the Summerlin area where it was always safe we now have daily break-ins by illegals…a lot of Somalia youth riding around on bikes casing houses…….one woman reported two days ago that someone broke into her back yard and stole her beloved German Shepherd…..no doubt to use it for dog fights….like the 3rd world criminals invading every day.
In my 7 decades of life I have never owned a security system…..I bought one two days ago.
5 years ago
We must do what Mexico does; REINFORCE THEIR BORDER and REPEL THE INVADERS.
Thanks from a little tip by our southern neighbor. 😉
5 years ago
Will they be marching directly to various dem0rat party headquarters to register as dem0rats and sign up for welfare bennies?
5 years ago
If I was in the USA right now I would get down to that southern border and guard it with my life.
It’s a massive stretch of land that the authorities Can Not protect alone.
I urge all patriots to lock load and head south.
PROTECT THE SOUTHERN BORDER!????????
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
….and the first time you shoot one YOU WILL BE ARRESTED…..that’s the irony…
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Well don’t shoot them.
Bludgeon them with sticks’ throw rocks at them’ catch them and fight fist to fist toe to toe.
Just stop the bastards from entering your country.
5 years ago
This is a Soros, UN, Globalist people replacement agenda in motion.
Don’t allow this to pass as many-many more will definitely follow.
PROTECT THE SOUTHERN BORDER!????????
5 years ago
“Seven-year-old Honduran migrant Genesis Belen Mejia Flores waves an American flag at U.S. border control helicopters”
Oh, the humanity!! My heart breaks!! How can the cruel Americans deny this little child?
(and his parents and grandparents and brothers and sisters and cousins and in-laws and their school’s junior hockey team and their friends and the corner shopkeeper and his parents and grandparent and . . . .
5 years ago
Reply to
Badger
…and every last one of them “qualify” for “entitlements”……food, housing, medical, etc.
We seniors can barely get into doctors anymore because they are filled up with illegals…
Our military go to foreign countries to fight to keep others free…..but right here at home we are no longer free to move about our own country without risks….
5 years ago
When you stop feeding and watering “stray animals,” they will move on. But as long as they are fed and watered, they will be an on going nuisance for as long as you nourish the problem! NO food, NO.water, NO PROBLEM! Simple Solution. The Liberal Democrats are nourishing this problem. Remove the Libmocrats from the equation! Solves a multitude of both domestic and foreign chaotic problems!
5 years ago
The hispanic invasion of our boarder is a “HIJRAH” instigated by islam to overload our socitey with destructive elements so they may more easily put America under sharia. Hijrah is an islamic concept of making war and conquering by using the migration of population as a destructive weapon that has been used to take over many countries in the past with ease..
The obama ‘bitch slapped America’ till we do not understand what the pimps are doing to us.
Proscribe islam or die as a moslem slave.
Enforce our treason laws.
5 years ago
Let Pelosi and Feinstein and all the other leftists traitors to our Constitution take them in. Of course, we would need to surround their properties with concertina wire and land mines to prevent them from leaving their new digs.
