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    mexico is being paid off to do this - they are NOT OUR FRIENDS! SLEAZEBALLS WITH A SLEAZY SO CALLED 'country' RUN BY DRUG CARTELS.

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    We need to stop buying ANYTHING Made in Mexico and get the word out and get the list out.

    No Christmas shopping for anything Made in Mexico...time to vote with our wallets and cripple them! I am sick of this corrupt, pitiful, disgusting Country. Do not buy anything for the next year.

    The Silent Majority must continue "the movement" in every way we can.
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    More Central Americans are giving up on the US, looking to Mexico instead


    • By KATE LINTHICUM Los Angeles Times
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    • Photo by LOS ANGELES TIMES


    Karen Zaldivar, standing on the train tracks where La Bestia passes through Tenosique, Mexico, just a few steps from the restaurant where she now works as a cook. Zaldivar said Mexico is “calmer and safer” than her native Honduras. La Bestia (the beast) is a cargo train that travels through Mexico that migrants use to travel to the United States.



    TENOSIQUE, Mexico — Unable to find work and terrified by the street gangs that brazenly roamed the streets, Karen Zaldivar was one of tens of thousands of young people who fled Honduras in 2014.

    Caught trying to slip across the U.S.-Mexico border, she was promptly deported.


    Last year, Zaldivar set out again, but with a new destination: Mexico. She now lives in a small city just north of the Guatemalan border, along with growing numbers of other Central Americans who have concluded that if they can’t reach the United States, the next best thing is Mexico.


    “I decided to make a life here,” she said at a small open-air restaurant in Tenosique, where she works in the kitchen, frying fish. “It’s calmer and safer.”

    Estimates of how many Central Americans are living in Mexico are hard to come by, in part because some, such as Zaldivar, have obtained forged Mexican identity documents. But statistics show an increasing number are staying legally by seeking political asylum or humanitarian visas.


    Asylum applications in Mexico nearly tripled over three years, reaching 3,424 in 2015. Asylum requests this year are poised to be twice that, human rights advocates say, with most filed by Hondurans and Salvadorans.


    The number of migrants seeking to stay in Mexico pales in comparison with the droves heading to the U.S. — more than 400,000 people were apprehended at the U.S. Southern border in the fiscal year that ended in September, most of them from Central America.


    But the burden on Mexico and other countries is likely to increase if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promises to beef up border security and deport up to 3 million people living in the U.S. illegally.


    Jaime Rivas Castillo, a professor at Don Bosco University in El Salvador who has studied the Central American diaspora, said faltering economies, as well as fear, drive migrants from their homelands. “There aren’t jobs for everybody, and people fear for their life,” Rivas said. “So they go look for other places to live, if not in the U.S., then in Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica or Nicaragua.”


    Yessica Alvarado, 20, said she fled El Salvador in October after she was attacked on her way to nursing school by gang members angry that her grandparents had refused to pay an extortion fee. “It’s hard getting to Mexico, but not as hard as getting to the U.S.,” Alvarado said.


    On a recent afternoon, she sat on a sunny patio at a crowded Catholic migrant shelter in Tenosique chatting with a new acquaintance, a 27-year-old woman who escaped Honduras after her gang-member boyfriend beat her and threatened to kill her children. The shelter, La 72, was named for the 2010 massacre of 72 migrants in northeastern Mexico by members of a drug cartel.


    Even with its long-running drug war and a sliding peso, Mexico boasts a degree of safety and economic stability not seen in Honduras and El Salvador, which are among the poorest and most dangerous nations in the world. The roots of the violence there can be traced in part to the mass deportation of Los Angeles gang members to Central America in the 1990s. Experts say those countries aren’t prepared to reintegrate large numbers of new deportees.


    Javier Eduardo Ferrera, 23, was deported to Honduras from North Carolina in September after police discovered cocaine in the car that he was driving.


    Six days after he was released in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, Ferrera left for Tenosique. He didn’t feel safe in Honduras, but he also didn’t want to risk ending up in prison if he were caught illegally crossing the U.S. border. Immigrant deportees who are discovered again in the U.S. can be charged with a federal crime punishable by up to two years in prison — a sentence Trump has threatened to increase to five years once he is in the White House.

    “Let’s wait and see whether Trump accomplishes his goals,” said Ferrera as he unfolded a crinkled document that gives him the right to temporarily stay in Mexico while his request for a humanitarian visa is processed. “If I can’t be there, I’d rather be here.”

    A sleepy city built along a muddy river in the oil-rich state of Tabasco, Tenosique has long been a way station for migrants heading north. “La Bestia,” the infamous cargo train that has taken the limbs and lives of many migrants clinging to its roof on their way north, rolls through town.


    In the past, immigrants would spend only a few days in Tenosique, resting and waiting for the train, said teacher Gaspar Geronimo Gonzalez. “Now, many stay,” he said. Some families live in cinder-block shacks near the train station, while others sleep near the river.

    The town’s schools enroll well over 100 children from Honduras, who can be distinguished by their accents and Central American slang.


    The migrants are staying despite Mexico’s crackdown on illegal immigration.


    After tens of thousands of Central American children started streaming to the U.S. border in 2014, generating headlines, President Barack Obama responded by requesting money from Congress to help improve conditions in Honduras and El Salvador. More quietly, his administration pressured Mexico to dramatically step up its border enforcement.


    Parts of the southern states of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Tabasco now resemble border communities of Arizona and south Texas, with an influx of federal agents, militarized highway checkpoints and raids on hotels frequented by migrants.


    The result?

    Mexican authorities deported nearly 200,000 people last year, and from October 2014 to May 2015, they detained more Central American migrants than the U.S. Border Patrol. Human rights advocates expect 2016 to be the year with the highest number of detentions and deportations yet.

    Advocates have raised concerns about the treatment of migrants by Mexican immigration authorities, citing cases of extortion and abuse. They have also called on the Mexican government to slow deportations and approve more asylum requests. Last year, only 1,207 out of 3,486 were granted.

    They say gang violence makes the current exodus from Honduras and El Salvador far different from previous waves of economic migration, and insist the U.S. and Mexico should recognize immigrants from those countries as refugees.


    “What we need right now is a humanitarian response to the situation in Central America that recognizes an essential truth: that seeking refuge or asylum is not illegal,” said Geoff Thale, director of programs at an advocacy group called the Washington Office on Latin America. “It is a fundamental human right.”

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    Planning a vacation to Mexico? Do not go there, shut their tourist industry down. Spend your tourist dollars in the Hawaiian Islands, the Florida beaches, Key West or US Virgin Islands.

    Send the message to President Nieto to put HIS military on the border and stop the drugs, diseases, the human trafficking and invasion of OUR country.

    President Nieto needs to get on Spanish television...telling HIS citizens to pack up and go back to Mexico. He has plenty of land for them...put them in a Safe Zone on HIS soil. He can give them tents and shelter, set up schools, put them to work building Mexico. The Mexican Churches and Mexican billionaires can work together in this effort.

    Anybody in the USA going shopping? Going to the liquor store? Check every label, if is says "Made in Mexico"...put it back on the shelf...do not buy it.

    The USA is a Nation of Laws...respect OUR Laws, our people and our Country. Mexico is NOT a good neighbor.

    Every American needs to stand together...get the word out...do NOT use your money to buy products or travel in Mexico.

    If our own government and Mexico refuse to secure our borders and stop this invasion...we MUST do it with our wallets!

    We can do this...get on twitter to Donald Trump, to Fox News, get on FB, get the billboards up, pass this on to your friends.
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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