{"id":32984,"date":"2018-04-02T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32984"},"modified":"2018-04-02T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:03:07","slug":"arriving-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32984","title":{"rendered":"Arriving Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Washington Post<\/a> posted a story about a caravan of more than 1,000 Central Americans<\/a>, primarily from Honduras<\/a>, trekking up through Mexico<\/a> to the U.S. border on a nearly month-long trip that began March 25. These migrants are looking to seek asylum<\/a> from criminal elements back home or slip into the United States<\/a> undetected.<\/p>\n

The article explains why they are traveling in a group:<\/p>\n

Marching in a large group is expected to blunt the efforts of criminal gangs and cartels known to isolate and later rob immigrants, many of whom bring large sums of money to make the long journey north through Mexico. The caravan organizers, Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, appeared to have concluded that it is safer for these people to travel together.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article cites President Trump’s claim that Mexico is doing nothing to stop the flow of illegal immigrants<\/a> and offers the following reply:<\/p>\n

Mexico is<\/em> doing something \u2014 with the help of the United States. Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid\u00a0flow to Mexico<\/a> every year, including funds for strengthening its border with Guatemala<\/a>, where migrants generally cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One wonders how those funds are actually being spent.<\/p>\n

On March 30 (updated March 31), Buzzfeed<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

For five days now hundreds of Central Americans \u2014 children, women, and men, most of them from Honduras \u2014 have boldly crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases, and police in a desperate, sometimes chaotic march toward the United States. Despite their being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organized by a group of volunteers called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, the caravan is intended to help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organizers like Rodrigo Abeja hope that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we all protect each other we’ll get through this together,\u201d Abeja yelled through a loudspeaker on the morning they left Tapachula<\/a>, on Mexico’s border with Guatemala, for the nearly monthlong trek.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When they get to the US, they hope American authorities will grant them asylum or, for some, be absent when they attempt to cross the border illegally. More likely is that it will set up an enormous challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration policies and its ability to deal with an organized group of migrants numbering in the hundreds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If America is such a horrible country (as stated by college professors at our top colleges every day) why are so many people trying to come here? Also, what can these people do to improve conditions in their own countries? We cannot take in the entire world and continue to support our own population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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