Thread: Mexican Mayor Issues Dire Warning On Caravan, 'No City Is Prepared'

The caravan is worse than expected. Every American should read this.



Mexican Mayor Issues Dire Warning On Caravan, 'No City Is Prepared'


By Carmine Sabia
November 17, 2018 at 9:04am

The Honduran migrant caravan that Democrats kept insisting was not a concern is now worse than expected.
The mayor of Tijuana, Mexico denounced what he called a “horde” and said that it could last six months, The Washington Post reported.
With about 3,000 Central American migrants having reached the Mexican border across from California and thousands more anticipated, the mayor of Tijuana said Friday that the city was preparing for an influx that will last at least six months and may have no end in sight.
Juan Manuel Gastelum said there were 2,750 migrants from the caravan in Tijuana and that estimates by Mexico’s federal government indicate the number could approach 10,000.
“No city in the world is prepared to receive this — if I’m allowed — this avalanche,” he said during a news conference at City Hall. “It is a tsunami. There is concern among all citizens of Tijuana.”
U.S. border inspectors are processing only about 100 asylum claims a day at Tijuana’s main crossing to San Diego, creating long waits. Asylum seekers register their names in a tattered notebook managed by migrants themselves that had more than 3,000 names even before the caravan arrived.
Along the nearly 3,000 miles (nearly 5,000 kilometers) from the caravan’s origin in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to this city on the Pacific Ocean, the migrants have stopped in most places for only a single night, with some exceptions.
That overwhelmed small towns in southern Mexico in particular — but only briefly. The migrants’ expected long stay in Tijuana has raised concerns about the ability of the teeming border city of more than 1.6 million to handle the influx.
Pleading for financial support from the Mexican government, Gastelum sternly warned migrants against criminal behavior, though authorities reported only seven arrests so far — five for drug consumption and two for disorderly conduct.
“Supposedly they are fleeing catastrophe, mistreatment in their countries of origin. How is it possible that they arrive here and, if they want, create disorder?” the mayor said. “It’s not right.”
His language linking the latest arrivals to crime underscores how the caravan is already testing Tijuana’s proud history as a melting pot for immigrants, a tradition that Gastelum also highlighted.
A municipal gymnasium and recreational complex that has been converted to a shelter was expected to register up to 1,000 people Thursday night but ended up housing more than 2,000, including more than 400 children.
Tijuana officials said they opened the shelter as part of an effort to keep migrants out of public spaces.
The city’s privately run shelters are meant to have a capacity of 700.
President Donald Trump fired back at the caravan on Twitter.

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Isn’t it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country - yet they are proudly waving....
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Isn’t it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country - yet they are proudly waving....

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump


....their country’s flag. Can this be possible? Yes, because it is all a BIG CON, and the American taxpayer is paying for it!
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LOAD UP "THE BEAST" AND CATTLE CARS AND SEND THEM BACK!

THEY WILL BACK UP ON YOUR SOIL BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT THEM.

NO WAY, NO HOW, SHOULD THEY ENTER OUR COUNTRY!

YOU LET THEM IN...NOW YOU GET RID OF THEM.

DON'T YOU DARE SHOVE THEM ON OUR CITIES!

They are not wanted in Canada

They are not wanted in Mexico

They are not wanted in USA

They are not wanted in China

They are not wanted in Japan

They are not wanted in South Korea

They are not wanted in Africa

They are not wanted in the Middle East

They are not wanted in Russia

They are not wanted in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji!

They are not wanted in Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Europe!


CLOSE ALL OUR BORDERS AND DEPORT THEM ALL!

GO HOME, GET ON BIRTH CONTROL AND GO BUILD UP YOUR OWN DAMN COUNTRY YOU RUINED!

WE WILL NOT STAND FOR YOU TO COME HERE, MOUTH OFF, AND RUIN AND BANKRUPT OUR NATION!

well walk back home the walk will do you good 3.,000 miles have fun

"Migrants Are Pigs": Caravan Member Says Tijuana Residents "Treat Us Like Animals"



"We don’t want you here! Go back to your country!"

Sun, 11/18/2018 - 13:00
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Residents of Tijuana, Mexico aren't taking too kindly to thousands of members of a migrant caravan - hurling insults, rocks and even punches at the Central Americans which have arrived by the thousands in an effort to ultimately seek asylum in the United States, reports AP.

Ivis Muñoz, 26, has considered returning to Honduras. The coffee farmer called his father in Atima, Honduras, on Saturday to consult on his next move a few days after being attacked on a beach by locals in Tijuana. His father told him to stick it out.

Munoz was asleep on a beach in Tijuana with about two dozen other migrants when rocks came raining down on them around 2 a.m. Wednesday. He heard a man shout in the darkness: “We don’t want you here! Go back to your country!” Munoz and the others got up and ran for cover, heading toward the residential streets nearby. As the sun rose, they hitched a ride on a passing truck to Tijuana’s downtown. Now he is staying at the sports complex. -AP

Another caravan member, 57-year-old Carlos Padilla of Honduras, said a Tijuana resident shouted "migrants are pigs" as he passed by.

Tijuana mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has referred to the arrival of so many migrants at once an "avalanche" that the city will struggle to take care of. He calculates that they will remain in the city for at least six months as they go through the process of filing asylum claims. At a rate of around 100 applications per day, US border inspectors won't be able to process all 3,000 names currently registered in a notebook that the migrants assembled en route.

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

The Mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, just stated that “the City is ill-prepared to handle this many migrants, the backlog could last 6 months.” Likewise, the U.S. is ill-prepared for this invasion, and will not stand for it. They are causing crime and big problems in Mexico. Go home!
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For now, the vast majority of the caravan is camped out on a dirt baseball field at an outdoor sports arena and underneath bleachers. The city opened the complex after their other shelters reached capacity, while church groups have chipped in to provide portable showers, bathrooms and sinks. Local businesses, meanwhile, have complained of migrants panhandling and stealing.

Francisco Lopez, 50, owns a furniture store nearby. He said a group of migrants took food from a small grocery a few doors down, and he worries that crime in the area will rise the longer the migrants stay at the shelter.
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Outside the complex, lines of migrants snaked along the street to receive donations of clothes and coolers full of bottled water being dropped off by charity groups and others looking to help the migrants.
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Tijuana officials said they converted the municipal gymnasium and recreational complex into a shelter to keep migrants out of public spaces. The city’s privately run shelters have a maximum capacity of 700. The municipal complex can hold up to 3,000; as of Friday night there were 2,397 migrants there. -AP

Up to 10,000 migrants could eventually end up in Tijuana, according to the federal government.

Alden Rivera, the Honduran ambassador in Mexico, visited the outdoor sports complex Saturday. Rivera expects the migrants will need to be sheltered for eight months or more, and said he is working with Mexico to get more funds to feed and care for them. He expects the migrant numbers in Tijuana to reach 3,400 over the weekend, with another 1,200 migrants having made it to Mexicali, another border city a few hours to the east of Tijuana. An additional 1,500 migrants plan to reach the U.S. border region next week. -AP

1,800 Hondurans have returned to their country since the caravan began its journey on October 13, according to Rivera. He hopes more will follow suit.
"We want them to return to Honduras," said Rivera, noting that each migrant must decide whether to apply for asylum in Mexico, wait in line for US asylum, or go home. According to the Mexican Interior Ministry on Friday, 2,697 Central American migrants had requested Mexican asylum under a program launched on October 26 designed to expedite credentials for those who intend to live, work and study in southern Mexico.


Tijuana resident Felipe Garza, 55, acknowledge that locals aren't exactly excited to help the migrants despite he and other members of his church handing them coffee and rolls at the makeshift municipal shelter. "It’s uncomfortable to receive such a big multitude of people, but it’s a reality that we have to deal with," he said.

Garza surmised that if the Central Americans behave, Tijuana will embrace them just as it did thousands of Haitians in 2016. Those Haitians have since opened restaurants, hair salons and enrolled in local universities.
Police officer Victor Coronel agrees but wonders how much more the city can take. “The only thing we can do is hope that President (Donald) Trump opens his heart a little,” said Coronel. -AP

Trump "opening his heart" might be wishful thinking, however, as he tweeted just two days ago: "Isn’t it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country - yet they are proudly waving their country’s flag. Can this be possible? Yes, because it is all a BIG CON, and the American taxpayer is paying for it!"

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

· Nov 16, 2018

Isn’t it ironic that large Caravans of people are marching to our border wanting U.S.A. asylum because they are fearful of being in their country - yet they are proudly waving....

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

....their country’s flag. Can this be possible? Yes, because it is all a BIG CON, and the American taxpayer is paying for it!
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They are not wanted here either.

Send the buses, load them up and send them home.

Cheaper than housing and feeding them.

Cheaper than dealing with the crime, diseases, theft, childbirth and medical costs.

MEXICO PRESIDENT...YOU GO WORK WITH CENTRAL AMERICA...SEND TROOPS, PUT THE GANGS IN PRISONS AND SEND THESE PEOPLE BACK!

SEND IN THE NATO TROOPS TO GET IT DONE NOW!

DO NOT LET ANY OF THEM IN!