Thread: What happens when the caravan gets to Mexico? Are the Mexicans changing their minds

What happens when the caravan gets to Mexico?

Are the Mexicans changing their minds about illegal immigration?

January 17, 2019
By Silvio Canto, Jr.

We will know very soon. The latest caravan crossed into Guatemala, according to news reports:

About 500 people, including dozens of children, lined up to show their documents to a first line of unarmed security personnel at the Agua Caliente border crossing Tuesday night. Riot police formed a second line to contain any possible disturbance.
Edilberto Hernandez, a former police officer, stood with his wife and four children to cross into Guatemala. After losing his job, he could find only low-paid construction work, and he decided to travel with his whole family to the United States.

So what happens to Edilberto, wife, and kids when they reach Mexico?
According to other news reports and my own conversation with Mexicans in Mexico, there is no appetite to admit more "caravans":

Juan Palomina remarked: “Now look, let’s see if whacko [Mexican President} Lopez Obrador mobilizes the Marines and keeps these idiots from coming to Mexico. Give them enough to eat, at least.”
Some urged the migrants not to be blindly optimistic.
“People of Honduras, all of you who are spinning these grand illusions and getting ready to come on this caravan and in any future others, before you leave your country, please inform yourself about how people who’ve already come on previous caravans are faring in Tijuana,” said Belem Gonzales.
“Mexico is just like your country,” Gonzales added. “There are many problems and needs, and you’re not going to be much better off than you were in Honduras. Please don’t trust these manipulative agitators who are encouraging you to risk everything for nothing.”
Luis Mendez was far more unwelcoming. “We do not want caravans of (emojis of rats). Fight conditions in your own country. You are not welcome here.”
By Tuesday afternoon, a caravan that started with about 500 people grew to about 2,000, according to a representative from the Honduras National Commission of Human Rights, which travels with the caravan.

I cannot say whether these views represent a majority opinion. I have no scientific survey to link to. Nevertheless, I am hearing the same thing from friends and business associates.
After a few phone calls, I've concluded that Mexicans are sympathetic or understand that the violence is driving people out. At the same time, they don't like their country to act as "el camino" the highway, to the U.S.
What will President Lopez-Obrador do? He has to block the caravan or face serious political backlash. Lopez-Obrador is already at war with his countrymen over gas shortages. He does not need another headache!

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It is expensive to live in the USA...we do NOT want them either. No free stuff, no school or medical care for illegals!

They stuff 20 people into one single family home and ICE needs to go in, round them up, and deport them.

They are destroying our neighborhoods. They bring their criminal relatives, gangs, drugs and their problems FOLLOW them here!

They get on welfare and food stamps, live off OUR backs for cheap, split the rent with several people and then send their $50 billion back over the border!

NO ASYLUM...SEND THEM ALL BACK HOME!

BLOCK THE CARAVAN...MEXICO DOES NOT WANT THEM...USA DOES NOT WANT THEM!

There have been a lot of Western Hemisphere initiatives in the past. Time for some new ones to deal with Central America. It should not all be up to the US.

Yes, but the most important initiative is for the Hondurans to fix their own problems. Problems in countries are caused by people of those countries, their own citizens, it's their responsibility to initiate their own solutions to the problems their own citizens cause to begin with.

"Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office Dec. 1, has said that the migrants would be welcome and have the opportunity to gain legal residency and work permits in Mexico if they chose to remain in this country...

The plan was for caravan members to be transported to shelters in the border area. They would probably remain in the shelters for five days until their immigration paperwork was ready, allowing them to travel legally in Mexico...

This time, however, there was no need for the caravan travelers to try and sneak into Mexico via the river."


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Originally Posted by Beezer

Obrador knows darn well they will not stay in Mexico!

Of course he knows this. Our government and the politicians all know this.