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Demovictory9

(32,472 posts) Tue Oct 16, 2018, 03:50 PM Oct 2018

Caravan of more than 1,000 migrants moves north, triggering outrage from Trump

ESQUIPULAS, Guatemala — A caravan of Honduran migrants bound for the United States streamed across Guatemala’s southern border on Monday night and quickly drew a rebuke from President Trump, who threatened to withdraw all aid to Honduras unless it somehow recalled its citizens.

The migrant caravan included well over 1,000 people and is expected to continue to expand as it moves north across Guatemala and Mexico. On Tuesday morning, after the group had crossed into Guatemala, Trump wrote on Twitter he had informed the Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández that “if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!”

The migrants — who say they are traveling in search of jobs, better lives for their families and an escape from gang threats and violent communities — were blocked at the Honduras-Guatemala border for several hours Monday by Guatemalan police in riot gear before eventually being allowed to pass. They made camp for the night at a Catholic school in the southern city of Esquipulas and continued north Tuesday morning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/caravan-of-more-than-1000-migrants-moves-north-triggering-outrage-from-trump/2018/10/16/67f951f8-d143-11e8-a4db-184311d27129_story.html?utm_term=.607bc6571e63

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Caravan of more than 1,000 migrants moves north, triggering outrage from Trump (Original Post) Demovictory9 Oct 2018 OP

Dirty Donny* (R) pissing on the poor Achilleaze Oct 2018 #1

When I saw the title of the OP DFW Oct 2018 #2

expect mcCONnell to cry again Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2018 #3

What? ConstanceCee Oct 2018 #4

And how is the government of Hondurus thucythucy Oct 2018 #5

It's not really outrage from Donny Dollhands NewJeffCT Oct 2018 #6

We need a work visa program. Blue_true Oct 2018 #7

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

1. Dirty Donny* (R) pissing on the poor

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 04:05 PM

Oct 2018

And the republicans think he's God. Super sick blasphemy (R).

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

DFW

(54,436 posts)

2. When I saw the title of the OP

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 04:09 PM

Oct 2018

I thought this was going to be about Minnesotans heading for Canada

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,409 posts)

3. expect mcCONnell to cry again

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 04:16 PM

Oct 2018

It shouldn't be long before witch mitch mcCONnell is on the Senate floor, whining again about "literally" being assaulted. A whole caravan of non-white, non-R people will terrify him.

From the article:

Joel Garcia, a 22-year-old construction worker from the Honduran coastal city of Tela, joined the caravan after being deported from Mexico last year during a previous attempt to reach the United States. He said gangs had killed members of his family and he could not earn enough to support his diabetic mother. He slipped out of the house on Saturday morning wearing Nike flip-flops for the nearly 3,000 mile trip; someone later gave him a pair of socks.

“I left without telling my wife,” he said. “I didn’t want her to suffer.”

Will the Nike flip-flops be enough to stir up TrumPutin's base? Will they remember the promise of a wall paid for by Mexico?

ConstanceCee

(314 posts)

4. What?

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 04:59 PM

Oct 2018

Can Trump just decree policy like this, all by himself?

thucythucy

(8,086 posts)

5. And how is the government of Hondurus

Reply to ConstanceCee (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 05:06 PM

Oct 2018

supposed to claw back people who are now in a foreign country?

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)

6. It's not really outrage from Donny Dollhands

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 05:13 PM

Oct 2018

He's just using the migration to gin up fear in much of his low information rural base to get them out to vote. A large number of them fear people of brown and black color.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

7. We need a work visa program.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 05:26 PM

Oct 2018

And need to work with Mexico and border states to set up safe living zones in those areas, so that people can work, then go to those areas to live. The areas would be policed by an international police force whose main objective would be protecting people.

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