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In a startling revelation, Guatemala’s president announced in the country’s largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended in the impoverished Central American nation. Why should Americans care about this? A caravan of Central American migrants is making its way north. Let’s not forget that Guatemala is one of the countries that bombarded the U.S. with illegal immigrant minors under Barack Obama’s open border free-for-all. They came in droves from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through the Mexican border and for years Uncle Sam rolled out the welcome mat offering housing, food, medical treatment and a free education
A terrorist could have easily slipped in considering the minors, coined Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), were not properly vetted and some turned out to be violent gangbangers who went on to commit heinous crimes in their adopted land of opportunity. In fact, the nation’s most violent street gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), was energized by the barrage of UACs. The Texas Department of Public Safety even issued a report documenting how the MS-13 emerged as a top tier gang in the state thanks to the influx of illegal alien gang members that came with the UACs. At the time more than 60,000 UACs—many with criminal histories—had stormed into the U.S. in a matter of months. Tens of thousands more eventually made it north.
Guatemala has long been known as a major smuggling corridor for foreigners from African and Asian countries making their way into the U.S. Last year Guatemala’s largest paper, Prensa Libra, published an in-depth piece on the inner workings of an international human smuggling network that moves migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh to the U.S. Individuals are sent to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates then flown to Brazil before heading to Colombia. Once in South America, the migrants are transported to Panama before moving on to Costa Rica then a central point on Guatemala. One Spanish news report refers to Guatemala as a human smuggling paradise because it’s so easy to get fake passports. A few years ago, the head of Guatemala’s passport division got arrested for selling fake passports to a group of Colombians, according to a government announcement.
All this makes ISIS terrorists operating in Guatemala incredibly alarming. President Jimmy Morales confirmed it during a recent security conference attended by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well as the presidents of Honduras and El Salvador and other Latin American dignitaries. Morales said that his administration has captured “close to 100 persons completely involved with terrorists, with ISIS and we have not only detained them within our territory, but they have been deported to their country of origin.” Several of the terrorists were Syrians caught with fake documents, according to Guatemala’s head of intelligence. At the same event, President Morales also revealed that Guatemalan authorities captured more than 1,000 gangbangers, including members of the MS-13.
Many more probably make it into the U.S. via the Mexican border and a lot of them get released inside the country. In fact, Border Patrol agents in Texas have been ordered to release illegal immigrants caught entering through Mexico because detentions facilities have no bed space, according to a news report . Earlier this year Judicial Watch exposed a secret program—started by Obama and continued by Trump— that quietly relocates illegal immigrants to different parts of the country on commercial flights. Years earlier Judicial Watch uncovered a similar DHS initiative that transported illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and released them without proper processing. The government classified them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and transferred them 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way. The OTMs were from Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala and a security company contracted by the U.S. government drove the OTMs from the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector where they were in custody to Phoenix. Some could have been ISIS operatives.
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Judicial Watch reports news on their website with the use of strong emotional language that is usually pro-right or anti-left. Common topics covered are anti-immigration, in which they highlight crimes committed by illegal immigrants such as this: Busy Month for Illegal Immigrants Committing Heinous Crimes or dedicating an entire website to exposing former President Obama’s alleged IRS scandal. They have also promoted debunked conspiracy theories such as this . Further, the founder of JW, Larry Klayman recently promoted the conspiracy that the Clinton’s were killing people. In general the majority of content and story selection is anti-left.
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I don't know about prohibited sites, but this seed linked to the Daily Mail for me, not Judicial Watch. Be that as it may, rather than just attack the site, I researched the story to see if it was factual. The results of my research:
The story said the remarks were made by Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales at the
Here is a link to a page at the United States Department of State with a transcript of remarks from that meeting:
Remarks at the Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America
And here is a relevant excerpt from President Morales' remarks:
I have no idea if what he said is true. He does indicate that the other attendees have "information to that effect" so he seems prepared to back up the claim in some way. We also know no one jumped up to dispute the claim.
Unfortunately, no one in mainstream media ran the story and you can bet no one will ever ask Secretary Pompeo (he was there) about it. My guess would be that's because they are afraid of what the answer will imply. I expect they don't want this story out there because it means we have another legitimate reason to turn away a group of 4,000 people headed for our border and that would also undermine the narrative of them all just being desperate refugees.
And that's another reason why we call it "fake news." They won't report relevant stories that don't support a leftist narrative.
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In other words, the president of Guatemala's word is likely worth the same as Trump's word. In other words, it is worth nothing.
Obama and buddy Raul Castro
The president of Guatemala seems to be a Trump admirer. Thus, his word isn't worth the paper it is written on.
If he was an admirer of President Trump he would have halted the well funded Central American Caravan
So, your entire post is ad hom.
You're very eager to disregard his comments. I wonder why that would be?
take out leadership
straight from the art of war.
this group and those that follow are not going to make it past mexico.
the demoncrats voter drive will be denied from here on out.
but still... should be fun to watch
Yep. As long as the Mexican government cooperates, the wall is actually there and consists of the entire country of Mexico and a lot of Rurales. Even better, the Mexican government actually IS paying for that wall (at least, I don't think that the US government is paying the salaries of the Mexican Security Forces).
it would be better for them if they did, but not required.
they can be stopped at the border with two of the simplest of words.
"national security"
the mob will hit the border just in time for midterms.
that red wave will become a red tsunami.
thanks soros :)
Badfish seeded a story from a known conspiracy and fake news site, Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch is not acceptable as a source on Newstalkers. When I pointed that out to him, he did, after a while, change the source for the seed to The Daily Mail, which is a British tabloid that often prints sensationalistic stories. No doubt that the Daily Mail was just passing off the story they had seen on right wing websites.
I have looked to try and find this story confirmed by a mainstream media site other than Daily Mail , and all I see as sources for this story are right wing sites, many of them worthless in terms of their record on printing factual information. For example, the fake news site Gateway Pundit featured this story today.