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There are now three illegal migrant caravans heading north to the U.S. border. All involved insist that our country just let them in no questions asked. Sorry but that ain’t gonna happen. Augmenting the incredibly overworked Border Patrol will be U.S. troops and National Guard. When a reporter asked Secretary of Defense Mattis if this move was a political stunt, Mattis had a blunt reply.
Talk about lowering the boom! I mean seriously media! To infer that this troop deployment to the border is a political stunt before the mid-term elections? Wow.
“We don’t do stunts in this department,” Mattis told reporters. [Emphasis Added]
But of course, there are those who DO think this whole thing is a stunt and anyone with Trump is being mean and cruel to all the women and children in the caravan!
Important thread by @m_robinson771, one of the smartest civ-mil hands.
If "Mad dog" Mattis agrees with putting US troops on the border, his nickname should be changed to "Lap dog" Mattis.
Trump wants to manufacture a crisis out of a caravan of vulnerable asylum seekers. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is helping him do it. Sign the petition to tell Secretary Mattis to cancel the deployment of troops to the border: act.credoaction.com/sign/mattis-bo… via @CREDOMobile
‘Vulnerable asylum seekers?’ So that means that the several thousand in the caravans are all escaping political persecution? Remember, this is the criteria for asylum.
The persecution must have been based on at least one of five grounds, either your:
- race
- religion
- nationality
- political opinion, or
- membership in a particular social group.
There are around 7,200 in the first illegal immigrant caravan. The media would have us believe that every single one of them fits the asylum criteria. Tell me, exactly WHO is trying pulling a stunt here? Not Secretary of Defense Mattis, and nor are our troops.
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For those who insist that the caravans are peaceful, this reality check might hurt a little.
Hundreds of Central American immigrants Monday forded the fast-moving Suchiate River to cross illegally into Mexico a day after violent clashes at the Guatemala-Mexico border left one man dead and dozens of people injured.
The migrants, who struggled through shoulder-deep currents as a police helicopter buzzed overhead, managed to cross onto Mexican soil. But they were met by dozens of Mexican federal police officers and immigration agents, who took many of the migrants into custody.
~SNIP
At first, migrants found themselves unable to cross the river, which on Saturday was being patrolled by Mexican soldiers and more than a dozen Mexican marine boats, and unable to access the bridge that leads to a legal border crossing into Mexico. The border crossing in the Mexican town of Ciudad Hidalgo has not been fully operational since members of the first caravan clashed there with police last week.
On Sunday, members of the new caravan tore down a chain-link fence that Guatemalan officials had erected to prohibit entry onto the bridge. They pushed past dozens of Guatemalan forces who sought to deter them with shields and rounds of tear gas.
Those migrants, heading here to enter the U.S. illegally also threw rocks and bottles at the police.
https://twitter.com/reuterspictures/status/1056969792169623552
Yeah, super peaceful aren’t they? If they are all just innocent folks escaping persecution, violence, and poverty, then why are their faces covered?
What is happening or will be happening at our border is most definitely a national security concern. The caravan needs to be taken seriously. Mattis is correct. We should not view this as a stunt in any way shape or form.
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