Migrant group demands Trump either let them in or pay them each $50G to turn around: report
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Two groups of Central American migrants marched to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday with a list of demands, with one group delivering an ultimatum to the Trump administration: either let them in the U.S. or pay them $50,000 each to go home, a report said.
Among other demands were that deportations be halted and that asylum seekers be processed faster and in greater numbers, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported .
The first group of caravan members, which included about 100 migrants, arrived at the consulate around 11 a.m. Alfonso Guerreo Ulloa, an organizer from Honduras, said the $50,000 figure was chosen as a group.
“It may seem like a lot of money to you,” Ulloa told the paper. “But it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.”
He said the money would allow the migrants to return home and start a small business.
A letter from the group criticized U.S. intervention in Central America and asked the U.S. to remove Honduran President Orlando Hernandez from office. They gave the consulate 72 hours to respond.
A letter from the second group of about 50 migrants arrived at the consulate around 1:20 p.m. asking the U.S. to speed up the asylum process and to admit up to 300 asylum seekers each day at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego. Currently, around 40 to 100 are admitted.
“In the meantime, families, women and children who have fled our countries continue to suffer and the civil society of Tijuana continue to be forced to confront this humanitarian crisis, a refugee crisis caused in great part by decades of U.S. intervention in Central America,” the letter states.
Of the roughly 6,000 migrants who’ve traveled from Central America to Tijuana, around 700 have returned home, 300 have been deported and 2,500 have applied for humanitarian visas in Mexico, according to Xochtil Castillo, a caravan member who met with Mexican officials Tuesday.
Others have either crossed into the U.S. illegally, moved to other parts of Mexico or have fallen through the cracks, the Union-Tribune reported.
“A lot of people are leaving because there is no solution here,” said Douglas Matute, 38, of Tijuana. “We thought they would let us in. But Trump sent the military instead of social workers.”
Others have either crossed into the U.S. illegally, moved to other parts of Mexico or have fallen through the cracks, the Union-Tribune reported.
“A lot of people are leaving because there is no solution here,” said Douglas Matute, 38, of Tijuana. “We thought they would let us in. But Trump sent the military instead of social workers.”
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Just in case you were still wondering if this is an invasion....
Clearly it is an invasion. The ridiculous denial of that was exposed by these demands.
That was actually exposed a long time ago. This is just the icing on the cake.
Pretty baslsy from people that are not wanted by their own countries but expect to be wanted here. Idiotic, but balsy....
IKR? It says they gave the consulate 72 hours to respond (or what?)
Maybe Trump should should just have the military pile up a 30 foot high barrier of razor wire along the entire border.
Two barriers set 50 yards apart with several million cheap, mass produced, land mines between the barriers. Behind the barriers put NG machine gun nests about 500 yards apart, just in case the illegals get lucky. On the southern side of the barrier place signs in Spanish reading "If you continue across these wire barriers, you will die". Much cheaper and easier to maintain than an actual wall.
Maybe they should put that as the first choice and the wall as the second.
96 , I doubt you will hear what the "or what" IS, right now according to the article , only 100 have made the demand either let them in , increase the amount of applications taken daily , or pay some money and they will go away, until the or what is known , they haven't even committed extortion. Kinda like a 2 year old demanding a cookie before they eat their lunch.
My prediction? processing will stay the same , they still wont get in ,and they wont get any money.
Agreed, absolutely.
I'd make sure that particular group was blacklisted for life. We don't need to import more terrorists.
That’s for sure!
"But Trump sent the military instead of social workers.”
Trump's duty is to protect the US border not take care of foreigners
Return home and start a small business?
WTF?
In the very country they are being persecuted in?
LOL!!
proves they do not deserve asylum
The largest majority of them do not qualify for asylum. Never have, most likely never will.
Economic hardship and just living in a hellhole doesn't qualify them.
It proves they are not after asylum.
Proof positive that they're not seeking "asylum".
But the liberal media will ignore the truth.
Liberal media, along with their complicit open borders politicians and supporters, have ignored the truth regarding the purpose of these caravans for a long time and will continue to do so until the US Congress grows a spine and puts a stop to this flagrant abuse of legitimate asylum.
Naaaah. C'mon now. There are dozens of television shows about people who show up uninvited and demand money to leave.
But these are just honest, hard-working families looking to make a better life for themselves. They aren't demanding anything from anyone.
I've been surprised that the left hasn't been tearfully reciting "The Great Colossus" while these "refugee caravans" made their way through Mexico with the help of far-left open borders lawyers and others.
I think they would have a better chance winning a suit against the DNC and Caravan organizers for misleading them.
That's not crazy. They might have a decent argument based on detrimental reliance aka estoppel. Maybe even fraud, depending on what they were promised by the likes of Borders sin Fronteras. Now that would be some must-watch TV for me.
It doesn't fit the narrative so it will never happen.
Now that’s a lawsuit that would be great to see.