The migration crisis
A new, 2,000-person migrant caravan is making its way north to the US border — and is expected to reach El Paso, Texas, in just the next few days.
Videos posted online show a swarm of people walking through the streets of southern Mexico on Monday.
In one clip, an apparent leader could be seen encouraging the group through a bullhorn to chant “A la frontera” — meaning “To the border.”
The group proclaimed in Spanish, “We are not criminals, we are international workers.”
Church-run border shelters are preparing for the group’s arrival, as they run out of space to house the thousands of migrants trying to make their way into the United States, according to Border Report.
“We are in contact with people and personnel in migrant shelters in south Mexico,” the Rev. Francisco Bueno Guillen, director of the Casa del Migrante shelter in the border city of Juarez, Mexico, told the news station.
“They saw many people have come into the country recently and are being joined by others already there,” he said. “And yes,they are coming to Juarez.”
He said they are expecting at least 2,000 migrants who set off from Chiapas, Mexico, to arrive in El Paso in the coming days.
The so-called “Migrant’s Via Crusis” was organized by Mexican activists in Chiapas to ensure the safety of migrants making their way to the US.
It left the city of Tapachula, on the border of Guatemala, on Monday, according to Border Report.
Another group of several hundred foreign nationals have also set up a camp behind a convenience store in Chihuahua City — about 230 miles from El Paso, it reports.
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Meanwhile, the Texas National Guard has deployed two planes carrying 200 members of the Tactical Border Force to El Paso, according to KTSM.
The group specializes in incidents of civil disobedience, a spokesperson for the Texas National Guard told the station.
Their deployment comes just days after a group of migrants stormed the border in El Paso, tearing down concertina wire and trampling over Border Patrol agents in their way.
Texas authorities have charged nine migrants involved in the breach last Thursday.
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Meanwhile, Mexico's president has been accused of extortion of the US in dealing with the migrants.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador could help curb the flow of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border if he wanted to, but in a recent interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” it was clear he had no intention of doing so out of his own goodwill. Instead, he’s produced a list of demands that critics say amounts to extortion of the U.S. president in an election year.
The White House witnessed López Obrador's power in December. After a record 250,000 migrants overwhelmed the U.S. southern border, President Biden called López Obrador and asked Mexico to help contain the flow of migrants. A month later, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported the number of migrant crossings dropped by 50%.
With the ear of the White House, López Obrador proposed his fix to address the root causes of migration issues: asking the U.S. to commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S. (CBS)
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John Daniel Davidson reports:
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Video of the clash, which was filmed by reporters from the New York Post, quickly went viral. It shows the crowd of migrants, all of them adult men, at first putting their hands up as they crowd around a small group of Texas guardsmen trying to block an opening in the fence the migrants had created. After what appears to be a brief physical altercation, the crowd rushes past the guardsmen. The Post reporter at the scene described it as a “riot.”
The video is shocking. It underscores not only how unstable the border has become but also what has been true for a while now: This is an invasion. What began as a crisis created by the Biden administration’s lax border policies is now an open conflict careening toward disaster.
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Texas has been trying to stop the invasion and many of the migrants are headed to New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
Meanwhile, California is already dealing with its own exit according to American Update:
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People are leaving Los Angeles in droves amid the spate of problems facing the city. The population of Los Angeles decreased from 9,719,765 to 9,663,345 from July 2022 to 2023, a loss of 56,420, the largest decline of any city of any county in the U.S. by a roughly factor of two, according to Census Bureau data. That number does not account for the number of civilians who left who were offset by incoming foreign migrants, of which there were 40,388 during that period.
Approximately 40 of California’s 58 counties saw a population decline from July 2022 to 2023. Meanwhile, the majority of counties in Texas, Florida and Arizona all saw the biggest population increases during that same time period.
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The Daily Caller reports:
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“You can look at the unemployment numbers, and those really flag some severe underlying problems,” Will Swaim, president of the California Policy Center, told the DCNF. “California overregulates businesses and underregulates public safety. And those two things may seem unrelated, but when you allow people to engage in organized theft from stores or break into cars, for instance, it reduces the ability of markets to function.”
Retail theft, such as shoplifting, has exploded over the past few years, mostly in cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to The Associated Press. Criminals are incentivized through relaxed crime policies like Proposition 47, which was passed in 2014 and reduced certain theft and drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors.
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See also:
Joe Biden Funds Border Security in Foreign Countries as U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings Hit 7.4 Million
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Slipped into a $1.2 trillion budget signed by Biden last weekend is about $380 million for “enhanced border security” projects in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and Tunisia — about $150 million of which must go to border security in Jordan.
Meanwhile, the budget puts strict limitations on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ability to construct physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border to deter illegal immigration.
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California is losing population and many of those migrants are moving to Texas. Meanwhile, Texas has attempted to control its border with Mexico despite Biden's attempt to keep it open. I suspect that is the reason many migrants are headed to El Paso where they can cross on the New Mexico side and then come into Texas.
And:
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No, it's not just illegals eating all the food.
It's that unvetted illegals admitted into the country without inspection are bringing in untold diseases, which are already threatening livestock in border states like Texas.
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And:
Democrat governor signs destructive new bill into law that has Americans furious
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The most recent example of this is Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) who signed a bill into law that would allow illegal aliens to acquire commercial licenses for various jobs that usually require an individual to be a United States citizen.
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