Mexico disperses migrant caravans heading to US ahead of Trump inauguration

The Mexican government is working hard to break up migrant caravans trying to make the treacherous journey north to the U.S. ahead of President-elect Trump’s inauguration in less than two weeks' time.

Faced with the prospect of massive tariffs on goods under the new administration, Mexico has been dispersing migrants throughout the country to keep them far from the U.S. border, including dropping them off at the once vibrant tourist hotspot of Acapulco, a beach resort town on Mexico's Pacific coast made famous by the jet set in the 1950s and ’60s.

Once a crown jewel of Mexico's tourism industry, the city now suffers under the thumb of organized crime and is still struggling to climb back after taking a direct hit from powerful Hurricane Otis in 2023. It now has one of Mexico's highest rates of homicides.

Yet authorities are dropping busloads of migrants there with little support and few options.

The Mexican government has embraced a policy of "dispersion and exhaustion" to reduce the number of migrants reaching the U.S. border. Authorities let migrants walk for days until they're exhausted and then offer to bus them to various cities where they say their immigration status will be reviewed.

The migrants tell The Associated Press that they accepted an offer from immigration officials to come to the city under the premise that they could continue their journey north toward the U.S. border, but instead they have essentially been abandoned there.

On Monday, desperate migrants could be seen sleeping in the streets in tents and say they fear Mexico's drug cartels could target them for kidnapping and extortion, though many migrants say authorities extort them, too.

"Immigration (officials) told us they were going to give us a permit to transit the country freely for 10, 15 days and it wasn't like that," 28-year-old Venezuelan Ender Antonio Castañeda told The Associated Press. "They left us dumped here without any way to get out. They won't sell us (bus) tickets. They won't sell us anything."

Castañeda is one of thousands of other migrants who have left the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border in recent weeks in the hope of crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. before Trump takes office.

It would take an adult migrant about 16 days of non-stop walking to get to the most southern point of the U.S. border, which is at the crossing at Matamoros, near Brownsville, Texas. Migrants prefer traveling in caravans because they believe there is safety in numbers as it is hard or impossible for immigration agents to detain large groups of hundreds of migrants.

Trump has threatened Mexico with a 25% tariff on imported goods from Mexico, and the country hopes the lower numbers will give them some defense from Trump's pressures.

Trump is expected to clamp down heavily on illegal crossings, which have soared under the Biden-Harris administration. He has also vowed to carry out the largest deportation operation in the history of the U.S. and has appointed hardliner South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), while Tom Homan will be the new "Border Czar."

Additionally, Trump has also pledged to end the use of parole programs by the Biden administration that allow migrants to enter via the expanded "lawful pathways

On Tuesday, Trump reiterated his threat in a press briefing where he also said he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

"Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country. They can stop them. And we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada, they come through Canada, too, and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers, record numbers. So we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada, substantial tariffs," he said.

What another country’s immigration agency promises people is entirely up to them

Our immigration agency makes no such promise and that app that everyone is using to cheat the system needs to be eliminated.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:

Our immigration agency makes no such promise and that app that everyone is using to cheat the system needs to be eliminated.

No, we need to hack it, then use it to round them up for immediate deportation or prison (with a proper no-bail trial, of course).

Trump Inherits A Deeply Damaged Economy

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

There is finally some optimism in the land. Unfortunately, good vibes are not enough to fix the deep structural problems that now afflict the U.S. economy, from inflation to a weak job market to a small-business sector that is barely hanging on, in addition to a tapped-out consumer and egregious financial problems in government itself.

https://www.zerohedge.com/econ...eply-damaged-economy

A more detailed video of what Para posted in the Kamala thread. Barry laughing with Trump, some who pay respects to the New Boss and some who don't.

Meanwhile in federal court, a huge win for girls and women in women's sports, Bidens Title IX rewrite goes down in flames...


https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/st.../1877391800823853333

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Originally posted by oddball:
A more detailed video of what Para posted in the Kamala thread. Barry laughing with Trump, some who pay respects to the New Boss and some who don't.

I hate that for President Trump, but he doesn't care. It is their loss.

On the other hand, it was obvious that no one, in either party, likes Kamala.


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A more detailed video of what Para posted in the Kamala thread. Barry laughing with Trump, some who pay respects to the New Boss and some who don't.

Interesting... and it's obvious that George W. Bush is more comfortable with the Democrats than with Trump.

Quite a gulf of icy waters between Dubya and Hildebeast.

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Interesting... and it's obvious that George W. Bush is more comfortable with the Democrats than with Trump.

I attribute the hate from Bush's and Chaney's is for the Trump trouncing of Jeb in the 2016 Primaries.
Jeb was the heir-apparent to the Republican throne and the Bush's never forgave him and the Cheney's are just in support of the Bush's.
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^^^ Without a doubt.

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Meanwhile in federal court, a huge win for girls and women in women's sports, Bidens Title IX rewrite goes down in flames...

I bit of sanity just returned to this country.

Riley Gaines (and others in her court) deserve every accolade in the books.

^^ Yup, Sanity Prevails as the Court sides with Women, Biological Science and Common Sense!

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Originally posted by chellim1:

Interesting... and it's obvious that George W. Bush is more comfortable with the Democrats than with Trump.

I attribute the hate from Bush's and Chaney's is for the Trump trouncing of Jeb in the 2016 Primaries.
Jeb was the heir-apparent to the Republican throne and the Bush's never forgave him and the Cheney's are just in support of the Bush's.
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Laura Bush was very cordial with everyone though, as I have come to expect and admire about her. She's the most gracious and well-liked among all living First Ladies.

Not having a bitchy resting face also helps.

...please clap.

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Laura Bush was very cordial with everyone though

Except for President Trump and Melania. Both she and Georgie ignored the Trumps.

The way Trump sat at that funeral, among all the former Presidents, Hillary, Pence, Gore, yucking it up with Obama, as relaxed as if he was hanging out in his basement with his friends--all boss.

There is a line in 'A Bronx Tale,' where young Cologero is looking over at Sonny from a distance and says, "No one is cooler than you, Sonny." No one is cooler than Trump. He knows he's the man.

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Trump Inherits A Deeply Damaged Economy

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

Yup, and we're going to see him get blamed for all the pain coming in the next year or two or three. I'm ready to point out to my lefty friends that we have been on this path for years, and all the economic indicators are signaling recession starting this year. Jobs, bond yield curve inversion, consumer debt defaults, etc etc.

Cutting government spending will cause a downturn in GDP. By definition it will. But the pain is part of the process, like getting an infected appendix surgically removed. The end result will be survivability.

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The way Trump sat at that funeral, among all the former Presidents, Hillary, Pence, Gore, yucking it up with Obama, as relaxed as if he was hanging out in his basement with his friends--all boss.

There is a line in 'A Bronx Tale,' where young Cologero is looking over at Sonny from a distance and says, "No one is cooler than you, Sonny." No one is cooler than Trump. He knows he's the man.

Trump was cool before Georgie W was POTUS, Obama was still in college, Kamala was claiming to work in McDonalds, Hillary was First Lady in Arkansas.

Reminds me of a recent story about "journalist" Peggy Noonan, who had avoided meeting Trump for over eight years until recently, and she was seduced, taken by Trump's personality, his coarseness, his humor, his intelligence, etc. Trump has been an expert in this for decades.

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Reminds me of a recent story about "journalist" Peggy Noonan, who had avoided meeting Trump for over eight years until recently, and she was seduced, taken by Trump's personality, his coarseness, his humor, his intelligence, etc. Trump has been an expert in this for decades.

Peggy Noonan had her eyes opened when she did the research to write When Character Was King - a book all about Ronald Reagan. I guess after the release of that book, she continued to associate with Leftards and forgot everything she had learned.

President-elect Donald Trump has around 100 executive orders to enact as soon as he takes office, a Republican senator said on Thursday after GOP lawmakers held meetings with the incoming president’s team.

“He says he has almost 100 executive orders that will go a long way to securing the border again, and also put the energy sector back in play,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday.
Mullin did not elaborate on the exact nature of the orders or how quickly they would be implemented, although Trump has vowed to have a robust first day and to issue a variety of border- and immigration-related executive actions as soon as he takes office.

After his election win in November, Trump said that he would declare a national emergency over illegal immigration in order to initiate mass deportations, first targeting people who are unauthorized to be in the United States and who also have criminal convictions.
During his campaign, Trump also often repeated the “drill, baby, drill,” campaign slogan in saying he wants to roll back regulations around drilling for oil and natural gas in a bid to lower costs.

“I will sign Day One orders to end all Biden restrictions on energy production, terminate his insane electric vehicle mandate, cancel his natural gas export ban, reopen ANWR in Alaska—the biggest site, potentially anywhere in the world—and declare a national energy emergency,” Trump said during an event last month.


But Mullin cautioned that the executive orders can be easily undone by a future presidential administration and that Congress needs to act on border security.

“As he said, it’s not permanent,” Mullin said. “I would like reconciliation so we can start making this stuff into legislation, so we can move forward.”

The Epoch Times contacted the Trump transition team for comment on Thursday, but didn’t hear back by publication time.

“The president was very clear, he wants results,” Mullin told Fox News. “He said he can wait if we can do one big, beautiful bill. He'd like to have one big, beautiful, beautiful bill. But if the House were to get bogged down, maybe we have to divide it up in two.”

The senator was making reference to comments made by Trump this week after he met with Republicans in Washington.

“I think there’s a lot of talk about two [bills], and there’s a lot of talk about one (bill), but it doesn’t matter,” Trump told reporters.
“The end result is the same,” he said, adding that his meeting with GOP lawmakers showed the party is ”unified.”

Mullin added that Republicans need to “deliver for the American people on securing the border, on energy independence, on getting the regulations rolled back and making sure that we have taxes that are permanent, so we don’t have a $4 trillion tax increase on the American people right now.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...eyMeAHspy%2BR6sGI%3D