Border authorities use tear gas to stop migrant charge at southern border

"Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Border Protection officers to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego from on Tuesday. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves over to agents."

They don't want to wait in line. They don't want to follow the law. They want to enter the U.S. by charging the border.

They put the lives of their children in danger because they know it's easier on them if they drag a child along. So far, two of the children didn't make it and died. So far, over 250 children are ill and of these, about half are under the age of five.

The U.S. Border Protection has its hands full and that's what the illegal aliens are counting on--overwhelming the agents who guard our borders and charge into the country as if it is their right to do so. 

Now U.S. Border Protection had to use tear gas to keep the illegal aliens out and on the Mexican side of the border.

The new year brought continued tensions along the U.S.-Mexico border as U.S. authorities fired tear gas at migrants from the Central American caravan that has gathered there with about 150 illegal aliens, to keep them from breaching the border fence with Tijuana, Mexico.

An Associated Press photographer witnessed at least three volleys of gas launched onto the Mexican side of the border near Tijuana’s beach early Tuesday. It affected the migrants, including women and children, as well as members of the press. This is what tear gas was designed to do--affect people who would otherwise break the law, especially the rock-throwers on the Mexican side who tried to prevent agents from helping children being passed over the concertina barb wire, as per U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP). Agents said 25 migrants were detained.

Migrants who spoke with AP said they arrived last month with the caravan from Honduras.

Such clashes have been common as the migrants, who have put their names on a waiting list that is thousands of names long, have grown restless, with some opting to force their way across the border, unlike the rest of the U.S. immigrants who legally applied for citizenship and waited their turn.

USCBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said last year that the Border Patrol’s use-of-force policy allows agents to use tear gas and other nonlethal methods. Rubber bullets would do a better job, but that's not allowed.

In November, after a group of migrants tried to rush the border, McAleenan defended the use of tear gas: “As the events unfolded, quick, decisive and effective action prevented an extremely dangerous situation.”

President Trump is trying to get Democrats to negotiate over building a border wall. After all, John Kerry has a wall around a family home in France and is doing his best to keep it there while the residents want it down.

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Man's body floating in ocean near U.S.-Mexico border

"Members of a migrant caravan from Central America and their supporters sit on the top of the U.S.-Mexico border wall at Border Field State Park before making an asylum request, in San Diego, California on April 29, 2018."

A man's body was found floating in the ocean just north of the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego County, California, according to local police.

On Friday night, San Diego County Sheriff's deputies at the Imperial Beach substation were radio by U.S. Border Patrol for assistance with a body found in the water.

Deputies and members of the San Diego Fire Department arrived at approximately 6 p.m. local time, Friday and attempted to resuscitate the man. He was later declared dead.

Tijuana news outlet Frontera.info reported that the man was from Honduras, between 20 and 25 years old and attempting to cross into the United States. The media is currently scrambling to find ways of blaming the man's death on the Trump administration and specifically, the border agents.

The man's name and age have not been released.

The San Diego County Medical Examiner's office has opened an investigation into the death, hoping, as mentioned, to find a way to blame the cause of death directly on President Trump or someone close to the administration.

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Illegal aliens demand reparations from U.S. consulate in Tijuana

Reparations: the making of amends for the wrong one has done, by paying money to, or otherwise helping those who have been wronged--the Online Dictionary.

We did nothing wrong or illegal--they did.

Two groups of Central American migrants trying to enter the United States illegally, made separate marches on the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana Tuesday. They have the audacity to demand they be processed through the asylum system more quickly and in greater numbers. They want all deportations be halted, as if they have the authority to make such a demand.

But the best part is they demand President Trump either let them into the country or pay them $50,000 each to go home.

They demand? A better word is blackmail.

I believe that all Democratic politicians against building a wall, should be made to fork over the $50 thousand to each of them. Pelosi can afford it, and Chucky Schumer and his giant nostrils can sponsor a few of them along with Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Alexandria Occasional-Cortex, the staff at CNN and MSNBC along with the rest of the party.

On the one-month anniversary of their arrival into Tijuana, caravan members are pressing and demanding the United States take action, but they are dwindling in numbers since more than 6,000 first arrived to the city’s shelters.

Approximately 700 have voluntarily returned to their country of origin, 300 have been deported, and 2,500 have applied for humanitarian visas in Mexico, according to Xochtil Castillo, a caravan member who met with Mexican officials Tuesday. The group of unaccounted migrants, about 3,500 are presumed to have either crossed illegally into the United States, moved to other Mexican border cities, or simply fallen through the cracks.

First we cut you, then we sue you

The first group demanding action, numbering about 100, arrived at the U.S. Consulate at about 11 am Tuesday. The migrants said they were demanding that the Trump Administration pay them $50,000 each or allow them into the U.S.

Demanded.

When asked how the group came up with the $50,000 figure, organizer Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa of Honduras, said they made that number up as a group "onnaconna it sounded like a lot of dinero, man."

The group’s letter criticized American intervention in Central America, but not the part where we sent them tons of money. They gave the U.S. Consulate 72 hours to respond. They said they had not decided what to do if their demands were not met, but some of them were carrying dull machetes and Honduran flags.

“I don’t know, we will decide as a group,” Ulloa said.

The second letter, delivered around 1:20 p.m., came from a separate group of caravan members asking for the U.S. to speed up the asylum process. Specifically, the group asked U.S. immigration officials to admit up to 300 asylum seekers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry each day. 

They decided on this number by flipping a peso.

Currently, officials admit between 40 and 100 asylum seekers. The group of migrants say the slow pace violates American and international laws that call for an immediate process, and places vulnerable migrants at risk.

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Tensions increase as hundreds of migrants push on toward U.S.-Mexican border

Tijuana, Mexico -- It's getting tense out there as hundreds of self-described entitled Central American migrants congregating at a Mexican border town headed on Thursday for a bridge crossing that links the United States. President Trump has also renewed his statement to repel them from entering illegally.

US choppers hovered overhead as a group, made up primarily of young, working-age men, headed out from the shelter where they had been staying gratis last week, to the El Chaparral bridge about a half mile from Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California.

On Thursday the president threatened to close the border altogether, having previously deployed nearly 6,000 troops to set up concrete barriers and razor-wire fences to deter what he has called an "invasion," a term the residents of Tijuana agree with once they received the freeloaders.

"If we find that it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or where people are going to start getting hurt, we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control," Trump told the media, before sending a warning to Mexico.

"The whole border. I mean the whole border," he said, then taking the moral high-ground by adding "Mexico will not be able to sell their cars into the United States."

Tensions rose at the border when a local official and a human rights activist tried convincing the migrants of the benefits of remaining in Mexico, and submitting their US asylum requests through official channels.

"We don't want to!" shouted a number of migrants before continuing on to the bridge in the pursuit of welfare, health care and even for some, jobs.

"Let us cross now, we're already desperate, we've left family in Honduras, we need to work," said a man called Wilson, who not only refused to wait his turn at US residency, but couldn't even wait until being told he could cross the bridge.

Authorities in Tijuana set up a job fair attempting to recruit skilled workers among the migrants for the benefit of local companies, while Mexico's migration agency has offered them temporary residency papers.

No way, Jose--they wanted the American dream and to escape the violence they claim cause them to leave, as per the Soros team's coaching.

Some have taken advantage of the offers but others are simply determined to reach the US because they feel entitled and don't care about laws and national sovereignty.

Since setting out more than a month ago, mostly from from Honduras, thousands of migrants -- including many women and children -- have covered about 4,400, either walking, hitchhiking or being offered free rides before the first groups began reaching Tijuana at the end of last week.

And they really want free rides, believe me.

But there have been tensions since they started arriving at the border town, particularly in the shelter housing around 4,500 Central Americans many of whom have the audacity to complain about the free food.

The migrants say they are mostly fleeing poverty and unrest in Central America's "Northern Triangle" -- El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where gang violence has fueled some of the highest murder rates in the world.

But rather than taking refuge in the first country they arrive at [Mexico], they want to come to the United States, where leftists, who think America is a terrible place, care so much about these migrants that they welcome them with open arms.

And there's the rub. If they care so much about the plight of these poor migrants, why would they want them settling in such a horrible country?


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Illegal migrants may be planning a 'human stampede/ at border

The migrants are tired of the journey, they're tired of the food they've been given for free by sympathetic Mexicans, and they're tired of waiting in line to apply for legal residency. Now they say they just might storm the U.S. border with Mexico and provoke the Trump administration to get their way.

"They have that intention," said Sergio Tamai, founder of Angels Without Borders, a group of entitled migrants who believe the rules apply to fools. "I believe that thousands could make that jump."

In the past two weeks, no less than 3,000 migrants have already arrived in Tijuana, a border city across from San Diego, California. The federal government believes that as many as 10,000 migrants could arrive in the coming weeks.

The ones who have already arrived are camped out in smelly tents, or on dirt fields, or under bleachers. Some stayed in overcrowded shelters to complain about the food. And some are getting teed off and think their best option is to attempt a mass crossing.

"Most of us, yes, we want to be on the other side," Jorge Molina, a Honduran migrant told Telemundo. "Some want to jump over the wall, others to go another way, and others want to wait and see what kind of response they get."

But none want to wait in line like those who legally came before them.

Dozens have already been arrested by border agents when trying to illegally cross the border, and about 5,800 active military that have been deployed to the border to help deal with the invasion began coming home this week.

On Monday, a judge barred Trump from enforcing a ban on asylum from those who cross into the U.S. illegally.

In Tijuana, residents aren't happy with the migrants of the caravan and about 500 protested them by marching to a sports complex where they were camped out. They chanted, "Get out!" and "We don't want you here!" Many fear that crime will rise as it is believed over 500 of the migrants have serious criminal backgrounds. Tijuana already has its own problems with crime and drugs and they don't want the caravan adding to it.

Already, 34 migrants have been arrested for drug possession, public intoxication, disturbing the peace and resisting police. They will be deported to their home countries.

Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum described the caravan of Central Americans as "aggressive and cocky."

Tijuana councilman Manuel Monarrez said the situation would further strain economic relations with the U.S. but it was Mexico that failed to prevent the entry of the Central American influx in the first place.

Trump was right: it is an invasion.

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Most of caravan ready to salir de Mexico City

Mexico City -- About 4,000 migrants who began the caravan in Central America, are getting ready to leave a stadium in southern Mexico City early Saturday and begin the longest, most dangerous leg of their journey to the U.S. border, which they hope to cross illegally. President Trump is not happy about this.

The bulk of the caravan will bring up the rear of those roughly 900 migrants who left Mexico City on Friday. Many were antsy to get going after having spent most of the week in the sports complex.

"Vamonos, vamonos," shouted Eddy Rivera, a 37-year-old 'skinny-as-a-peso' migrant from Honduras who said in Spanish that he couldn't take staying in the camp any longer. [It is quite likely that Eddy suffers from Generalized Anxiety Disorder due to his chronic impatience.]

"We are all sick from the humidity and the cold," Rivera said, pissing off the global warming supporters of the movement. Eddy left behind his wife and four children in order to find a better life for himself. "We have to get going we have to get to Tijuana," he shouted, again in Spanish.

Rivera is a highly unskilled farmworker whose knowledge of farming is similar to that of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's knowledge of economics and Israel.

He worries that he won't be allowed in the United States but says he has a simple dream: he's walking down the road and a frog talks to him and says, "Hola Eddy. ¿Que pasa." The frog then tells him about a farm down the road that's looking to hire illegal migrants to work the manure spreader and kill rats in the silo.

Rivera also hopes to return to Honduras and join back up with his wife and four kids back in Puerto Cortes, Honduras.

Many of the migrants plan to jump turnstiles in the subway and grab a ride to the northern part of Mexico City and then head on to Queretaro, followed by Guadalajara, Culiacan and Hermosillo, until they arrive in Tijuana near the U.S. border, said Nashieli Ramirez, director of Mexico's Human Rights Commission. According to Ramirez [whose gender is unclear to me as I never took Spanish in colegio] fully 90 percent of the 4,000 migrants still in Mexico City will depart before dawn Saturday and 400 have decided to stay in Mexico. [Give those 400 a prize, Dana.]

For many migrants, this will be their introduction to a metro system. They also have virtually no knowledge of the city or the 1,741 mile route to Tijuana that lies in store. Drug cartels and gangs operate all over the northern part of Mexico and Ramirez said that along the route, state human rights commissions would form a "chain of protection" for the caravan, because they aren't afraid of the cartels or gangs because like the migrants, this would be their introduction to violence if the cartels are in the mood.

Felix Rodriguez, 35, of Choluteca, Honduras spent over a week at the sport complex. "We all want to get moving," he said, but he was waiting for the main group to saddle up Saturday because "it is better to leave in a group, because leaving in small bunches is dangerous."

A previous caravan in the spring decided on the longer route to Tijuana for safety reasons. That caravan had dwindled down to only 200 or so people by the time they reached the border.

Mexico offered refuge, asylum or work visas to the migrants. The Mexican government said 2,697 temporary visas had been issued to individuals and families to cover them while they wait for the 45-day application process for a more permanent status. Last Wednesday, a bus from Mexico City returned 37 people to their countries of origin.

President Trump has deployed over 5,000 military troops to the border to help fend off the migrant invasion that Jim Acosta doesn't agree is an invasion.

When asked by Brain Flushings' Vinny Boombots whether he would be willing to accept a migrant family into his home, Acosta dropped the mic, ran his fingers through his hair, and walked away.


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Migrants scoff at Trump's wall and promise to go over it

Tijuana, Mexico -- With breathtaking arrogance, Eladio Sanchez made it clear that he isn't going to let a little border wall stop him from coming into the United States if he wants to.

Sanchez has seen the

eight border wall prototypes near his house in Tijuana. At age 30, he has already sneaked across the border several times and believes that Trump's eventual wall will have about as much an effect on stopping illegal migration as Flex Seal tape would have had on stopping the Titanic from sinking.

Speaking from his home, he pointed to the only wall with an angular barrier at the top, a concrete structure built by Texas Sterling Construction Company, saying that it might slow him down a bit more than the others, but like yo man, no problemo. "You can get over it anyway," he told AFP.

"It's just a little more complicated. But people are always looking for a way to get over--out of necessity, not because we want to."

Which says a lot about Mexico.

Not a prototype

President Trump's visit to the prototypes may look like symbolic slaps to the face after he called some Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists." That probably wasn't the smartest thing to say and it has hurt relationships between our two countries.

Each 30 foot tall prototype costs $300,000 to $500,000 each. To cover about 2,000 miles of border, it will cost taxpayers up to $20 billion, although Trump still insists that Mexico will pay for it.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled plans (for the second time) to visit Washington recently over this issue.

"He firmly repeated what all Mexicans have always said: We will never pay for a wall on the border," said Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray.

Approximately 11 million illegal aliens live in the USA, many of them Mexican or other Latino. "They are the proof that it's possible to get through. More Mexicans are getting through all the time," said Sergio Tamai, founder of the immigrant advocacy group Angels Without Borders.

"The desert. The mountains. Human traffickers. You can't take away that desire to cross to the other side. That desire to build a better life for your family is such a strong, powerful energy."

It sure beats making your own country a better place to live.

"Everything is more difficult with Trump. He's really racist," says Carmelo Alfaro, 56, a former gardener in San Francisco and a member of the Mexican race. 

Alfaro was deported recently for disregarding the sovereignty of the USA and refusing to wait in line to obtain legal residency and eventually citizenship, like many before him.

But that isn't how liberals see his "plight."



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