Rep. Jayapal helps 5 asylum seekers get across US-Mexico border
Rep. Jayapal helps 5 asylum seekers get across US-Mexico border
December 3, 2018 at 1:59 pm
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Congressmember Pramila Jayapal. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Five asylum seekers are now in the United States with the help of Washington Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.
“I’m in Tijuana, at the border at the Mexican side … since I saw the pictures of the tear gassing, I felt I needed to come down here and find out for myself what was happening and talk to people who are part of the caravan, asylum seekers, and talk with Mexican officials here,” Jayapal told KIRO Radio.
“There’s now a situation were there at thousands of people here,” she said. “This remain-in-Mexico policy that the president seems to be proposing, in my view, is unconstitutional, and does not allow us to comply with our own human rights laws, much less international human rights laws … people are trying to come in at legal ports of entry. This one is overcrowded …”
In a December 1 Facebook live video, Jayapal explains that when she was crossing over from Mexico to the United States, the five asylum seekers were in front of her at the border. But they were told the port was not accepting asylum seekers.
“I went and I identified myself and I was able to work with the CBP officials … and we were finally, after quite a bit of time, able to get (into the United States) two unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, one mother and her 9-year-old daughter, and one young man who was an adult and had been beaten in Honduras an suffered from severe medical conditions,” she said on the video. “And we were able to get them across the border. It was a beautiful moment, a very emotional moment as they were able to come in. We don’t know if they will be able to stay, but they were at least able to start the asylum process.”
Jayapal at the border
Jayapal said that she inspected a shelter at the Mexico-California border on Saturday. According to the Congress member, the shelter on the Mexican side will house up to 8,000 people. There’s about 1,500 people there now. She says the majority of people there seem to be from Honduras.
“We spent quite a bit of time in the one that houses families, and it was heartbreaking to see all the children,” Jayapal said.
“One woman who was with her three children, the father of her kids had been murdered,” she said. “She was very afraid for her life. She was threatened herself. Right before she left, she got a phone call, on top of a number of other death threats, saying she was going to be killed.”
Most of the people she spoke with in the family shelter are from Honduras, trying to flee violence.
Jayapal said that the conditions at the border are made worse by a manufactured problem, used for political reasons. She points the finger at President Trump and says that the current asylum process is creating a chokepoint, preventing people from claiming asylum.
“There is no crisis here on the border, except one that has been created, in my view, by this administration,” Jayapal said. “Mexico and the United States have worked closely together for years to process people properly … there’s an orderly process so people legitimately seeking asylum can seek asylum. We don’t want a situation where unaccompanied minors are standing here outside trying to seek asylum. They should go to the front of the line. That is not the case right now.”
“They have a process in place now that is a metering process where a very limited number of people are being processed every day, it’s creating a giant backlog,” she said.
Jayapal noted one interaction with a woman at the border — she asked her what she would like people in America to know.
“‘Please just tell them who we are and how afraid we are for our lives — this is a life and death situation,'” Jayapal quoted. “‘And I hope that God will touch the hearts of the American people.'”
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Democrat Congresswoman Helps Illegals Into Country
Friday, 07 December 2018
R. Cort Kirkwood
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A second Democrat in Congress is helping flood the nation with future voters for her party by helping them submit (possibly phony) asylum claims.
This time, it’s Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), an Indian immigrant who bragged on Twitter that she helped a handful of the illegals jump the border.
Last time, it was campaign staffers for Representative Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), the new wunderkind of the Democratic Party, whom the faithful hope is the next Barack Hussein Obama. Project Veritas divulged that O’Rourke’s senate campaign workers used campaign funds to help migrants in the caravan that surged through Mexico this fall.
But in both cases, left-wing Democrats are the culprits.
Bragging Rights
Born in Chennai, India, Jayapal boasted about bringing in the illegals.
“I was able to successfully assist 5 asylum seekers — 2 unaccompanied minors, a mother and her 9 year old child, and a young man with a serious medical condition — into the United States.”
Jayapal did not divulge how she knew the asylum claims were genuine, or what the “serious medical condition” was. So who knows what the migrant brought into the country. Something benign? Or was it multi-drug resistant tuberculosis?
“Initially they were denied, in violation of U.S. and international law,” Jayapal opined, “but I was able to intervene and ensure that they could simply present themselves for asylum in the United States.”
And she huffed, “it shouldn’t take intervention from a Member of Congress and an incredibly compassionate Border Patrol Chief for those fleeing violence and persecution to seek asylum in the United States.”
The immigrant congresswoman, who apparently thinks she represents the migrants, not those who elected her, then tweeted this threat: “I will continue to do everything I can to return our country to one that upholds decency, compassion and human rights.”
Jayapal’s overwrought assumptions aside, the claims of the illegals she brought in are probably untrue.
They’re Job Seekers, Not Refugees
The migrants sitting in Tijuana are not, as The New American has repeatedly reported, genuine asylees. Few if any are “fleeing violence” or “fear persecution.” Nor are they mostly “women and children.”
They are mostly men, and they began heading north from Honduras to seek work, as caravan members have consistently admitted. They might apply for asylum so they cannot be deported as illegal aliens. But they’re looking for jobs.
One after another, migrants have admitted that truth.
“I got no choice,” a Guatemalan told Fox News. “I got to work for a living.”
A Guatemalan told the Washington Post: “It’s time for me to go back to the United States. It’s a country where I can live my life, unlike Guatemala.”
A three-time Honduran deportee told the Post: “We are workers. What are we supposed to do in Honduras if there’s no work?”
A recently published report established the truth with hard survey data. Few if any Central Americans land at the border because they seek asylum, the report noted. More than 90 percent come for economic reasons.
Some hope to drop an anchor baby and pretend they need asylum.
“With the faith in God, I always said my son will be born [in America],” a migrant mother told Univision after she hopped a border and delivered her baby. The family will apply for “asylum,” and the newborn is, according to an erroneous interpretation of the 14th Amendment, a citizen.
O’Rourke’s Subversive Campaign
Jayapal isn’t the only immigration subversive on the Hill. Another is O’Rourke, as TNA reported just before the midterm elections, who recently lost a bid for a Senate seat against Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas). O’Rourke’s campaign operatives spent campaign money on the illegal aliens.
“If you get caught in some sort of violation that’s like a $50,000 fine,” a worker told an undercover reporter for Project Veritas. “For me I can just ignore the rules and I’m like f**k it. I don’t mind breaking the rules.”
Said another: “I just hope nobody that’s the wrong person finds out about this.”
Jayapal, of course, wants everyone to know she’s helping illegal aliens, and doesn’t care if they are peddling false asylum claims. Nor does she care, apparently, about the diseases the “asylum seekers” carry.
Jayapal admitted, again, that one of them has a “serious medical condition,” but did not divulge it.
Thirty percent of the migrants in Tijuana are sick, some with AIDS and TB, while others might have hepatitis. Many have lice, which carry typhus. Chagas disease is another likely affliction.
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