Thread: Central Americans stalled at US - Mexico border, mull work offers

Central Americans stalled at U.S.-Mexico border, mull work offers

By Lizbeth Diaz

MEXICALI, Mexico (Reuters) -

Hundreds of migrants from a caravan of Central Americans were stalled at the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, where a handful said they welcomed recent Mexican offers of employment in the face of a hostile U.S. reception.

The Mexican government last week reiterated job offers to the migrants, saying that those who obtained legal status could occupy thousands of vacancies, most of them in the country's "maquiladoras," doing factory work.

Since arriving at the border last week, they have been denied entry through the gates linking Mexico to the United States.

Dozens of the mostly Hondurans waited in lines to bathe and washed clothes sullied from 2,600 miles of relentless travel.

Several members of the caravan, which left the crime-wracked city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Oct. 13, told Reuters they would be willing to stay put in Mexico rather than face rejection across the border.

"If we had work, we would stay. This has been very tiring," said Orbelina Orellana, a 26-year-old Honduran mother of three, waiting at the Alfa and Omega shelter in the city of Mexicali, which borders Calexico, California.

"I cry a lot to not be able to feed them as I'd like," Orellana said of her children. "I just want an opportunity."

Briefly stalled by Mexican riot police on a highway crossing between two southern Mexican states late last month, a dozen migrants told Reuters they rejected such offers, preferring to try their luck in the United States.

But on Saturday, some said that thinking had changed.

"We had the idea to cross to the United States, but they told us it will be nearlyi mpossible," said Mayra Gonzalez, 32, traveling with her two children. "We cannot starve as we wait to find out if they'll give us asylum. Better to work, by the grace of God, here in Mexico."

Ina sharp reversal of longstanding U.S. policy, President Donald Trump's administration last week began enforcing new rules that curtail asylum rights for anyone who arrives without documents at the U.S. border.

Trump earlier this month deployed almost 6,000 troops along the long U.S. border with Mexico.

As they wound north through Mexico, the migrants were helped along by local authorities and residents who offered food,clothing and even free rides on daily treks that averaged 30 miles a day, much of it on foot.

But that welcome became noticeably frostier as the caravan reached the border.

In Tijuana, a city long accustomed to a population of migrants in transit, deportees and U.S. pleasure-seekers, a clutch of local residents last week threw rocks at the migrants, telling them to go home.

But some said the Central Americans could help boost the local economy.

"We are not against migration," Ulises Araiza, President of the Association of Human Resources of Industry in Tijuana, told Reuters.

"We know the situation that these people face in their country. But we also favor order so as to integrate them into the labor sector, because only in Tijuana do we have a demand in the maquiladora industry for 5,000 people."


https://www.yahoo.com/news/central-americans-stalled-u-mexico-border-mull-offers-025852247.html

They are offered asylum and jobs in Mexico.

Send them to Puerta Vallarta, Cancun, Mazatlán, Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco.

They have NO case for asylum in USA. Terminate and defund that program now!

We take in millions of people, the American people demand that we put a pause on all immigration. No refugees, no asylum, no TPS, no illegal aliens, no anchor babies, no free school, welfare, food stamps, housing or medical care.

We have millions homeless, we have thousands and thousands who lost their homes, jobs, loved ones...everything due to fires, floods, hurricanes, tornados and volcanos.

NO MORE PEOPLE...PUT A PAUSE ON ALL THESE PROGRAMS.

OUR FEMA BUDGET IS BUSTED! WE HAVE TO HELP OUR OWN AND REBUILD OUR COUNTRY.

Crime and welfare. That's the "dream" of these stone age invaders. Few can read or even speak english. Who will hire them.?

Another woman with 2 children and pregnant with number THREE! How many did she leave behind?


Well, have YOUR number 3 in Mexico and ask for a tubal ligation!


DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM IN

THEY ARE A PUBLIC CHARGE!

WE DO NOT WANT TO PAY THEIR CHILDBIRTH, SCHOOL, HEALTHCARE, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS OR HOUSING!

Originally Posted by Beezer

Another woman with 2 children and pregnant with number THREE! How many did she leave behind?


Well, have YOUR number 3 in Mexico and ask for a tubal ligation!


DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM IN

THEY ARE A PUBLIC CHARGE!

WE DO NOT WANT TO PAY THEIR CHILDBIRTH, SCHOOL, HEALTHCARE, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS OR HOUSING!

Typical story.....

Rosa Perez, a 30-year-old single mother who made the trip with her four children.


her 5 month old had been hospitalized with pneumonia in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.


Perez said she would not be a burden in the United States or wherever she ended up.

“My older kids can go to school, and I can take care of the youngest and work part time, maybe cleaning houses,” she said.
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Do these people even realize what a burden is?

Who paid hospital bill for her child in Guadalajara?

She has nothing but the clothes they wear and she thinks a part time job cleaning houses will be all she needs to avoid being a burden on the US taxpayer.

That typical story was from the LA Times---does the media not care how they embarrass themselves when they print these fairy tales?

Yeah, part-time cleaning houses pays $80 GRAND a year to feed her and her 4 kids.

Is she by chance pregnant with NUMBER 5?

Not be a burden "wherever she ended up"...she needs to end up back in Honduras!

So the taxpayers PAY $15 GRAND each for her kids to attend OUR schools and get their free ESL, breakfast and lunches? Hell no.


LOL...PUT THEM ALL ON A BUT BACK HOME.

GIVE HER THE 3 YEAR BIRTH CONTROL INJECTION!