Editorials Illegal Immigrant Caravan: Real Election Meddling By The Left 10/23/2018 The "caravan" of illegal immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras now making its way to the U.S. border is no accident. The timing, planning and financing of this tragic parade has but one intent: to disrupt and influence our midterm elections. Is this what the left means by "election meddling"? The heart-rending shots of dirt-poor people from Central America have been making the evening news, which pretends this is some kind of spontaneous movement to come to the U.S. rather than an organized attempt at disruption. Women and children have been shoved to the fore of the columns to hide the fact that many of the 4,000 to 10,000-strong throng of people are in fact working-age males, not families. Already, in crossing the narrow entry from Guatemala into Mexico, the peaceful "caravan" members got violent, injuring four Mexican border police who stood in their way. It prompted a response from Mexico's president. "Violent entry into the country not only threatens our sovereignty, but also puts the migrants themselves at risk," Mexico's President Pena Nieto said on social media. "Mexico does not permit and will not permit entry into its territory in an irregular fashion, much less in a violent fashion." Tough words, but maybe not so tough. As Pena Nieto pretends to support law and order, his administration has no intention of helping the U.S. at all. "Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray insisted," Agence France Press reported, "Mexico would not cave to pressure to detain the migrants, urging the Trump administration to address the root causes of their northward flight: violent crime and poverty." Trump's Defiance Bad news, because President Trump isn't going to be bullied, as his tweet yesterday showed. "We have today informed the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador that if they allow their citizens, or others, to journey through their borders and up to the United States, with the intention of entering our country illegally, all payments made to them will STOP (END)!" Trump tweeted. Even as it moves into Mexico, the illegal caravan has well over 1,000 miles to travel. There's not enough time to get to the border by the November 7 election. So don't be surprised if trucks, buses and cars "unexpectedly" show up to give them a lift most of the way across Mexico. Securing The Border And what if they do make it to the border? No doubt, President Trump will have bolstered security significantly. He already has said he will send the U.S. military to the border. Will one or more troublemakers in the group try to provoke violence, as they already did in Mexico? No doubt, the leftists and the sympathetic media would like that. For them, chaos isn't a tragedy, it's a strategy. In the case of the media, they've covered this caravan as if it were a second Children's Crusade, not a leftist political stunt. They've done little if any digging into the origins and financing of the caravan, pretending instead that it's an honest response to "gang violence" or the three countries' failure to create economic opportunities for their own citizens. Americans shouldn't fall for the lie. This was planned, just as the one before it in April of this year was. Back then, the other "caravan" started a similar odyssey. It was organized by a group called "Pueblo Sin Fronteras," or People Without Borders. What do they seek? That the U.S. "open the borders to us because we are as much citizens as the people of the countries where we are and/or travel." Who's Paying For This? Who's financing this group that seeks to violently breach our border? If only our friends in the mainstream media would do their jobs and find out. We've said it many times before: A country that doesn't control its borders ceases to be a country. In the case of this illegal caravan it's likely that literally hundreds of violent criminals and gang members are taking part. Perhaps terrorists, too. What's truly sad is that the increasingly far-left Democratic Party can't bring itself to say anything meaningful about or even to criticize the illegal horde approaching our border. Why say anything? A border clash, they feel, will be bad for the GOP. But it's also bad for America. Democrats, in the heat of their election campaigns, often insist "we're not for open borders," or words to that effect. Yet, everything they do, from sanctuary cities to demonizing ICE to likening those who oppose illegal immigration to Nazis, suggests they want open borders. And why shouldn't they? The people in the caravan, once in the U.S., will mostly occupy the fringes of society. If past immigration is any guide, they'll be poor and overwhelmingly dependent on welfare. A study based on 2012 Census data found that 51% of all immigrants, legal and illegal, relied on one or more welfare programs. That compares to 30% for the native-born population. Gaming The Border As the the architects of our welfare system, Democrats have the most to gain from open borders and the new Democratic votes that would bring. As such, their repeated insistence they don't support open borders rings hollow. No, we are not anti-immigrant. We are anti-illegal immigrant. Come here as the law prescribes, get your green card, assimilate to American culture, obey its laws, and become a citizen. That's the route that made America a success. We're pro-immigration. We need to send a message to the world: You're welcome here to visit or to immigrate through legal channels. But we won't tolerate further violations of our immigration laws. We can't allow large groups of people, even if some are desperate, to violate our borders. It's time to build that wall, stop all illegal immigration, and restore our border. https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/illegal-immigrant-caravan-election-meddling/
The logistical cost of this invasion is staggering. We're supposed to believe some of the poorest people on the planet are financing this themselves? And they're walking over a thousand miles? If there's any justice left in the world this pre-planned invasion will backfire on the left and have repubs destroying leftists in the election. I really hope they make it to the border right before the election and crash the border. Let all of America see just what the left has planned for our future.
It's a planned invasion. Planned by the left. Election interference. 38 days at 10 hours a day walking is impossible. Period. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-walk-from-mexicos-southern-border-to-the-us?
A proactive DOJ run by a real AG would have already opened an investigation into this to determine who is funding it, so they could be charged with criminal conspiracy to violate immigration laws. Of course, a real AG would have already charged sanctuary city officials and filed civil rights charges against police departments who do not protect lawful assemblies.
The evil and corrupt Mexicans must be made to pay a dreadful price for trying to circumvent our laws and facilitating this planned invasion. We should close the border to all but American citizens returning home and bar Americans from traveling to Mexico. The military should establish a security zone a mile or so into Mexico. They have already ceded control of the border to drug cartels, so why should they care? WTF can they do about it anyway? Using anti-terrorist funding laws, Trump should block all remittances to these countries, as well as government aid. He should also stop issuing any and all travel visas to come to the US. No more shopping in Miami, amigo. If they won't stop illegal immigration, then no more legal immigration either.