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-Short Attention Span Theater-
USA: UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees
2014-07-10
[Ozzie Saffa]
Excellent idea. They indeed should be refugees; that's what they are. UN-sponsored and financed camps should be built; these should be at least of the quality provided to Syrian and Palestinian refugees.

To facilitate access, the camps should be located south of the Rio Grande. This way the refugees won't have to contend with swimming a river, climbing a fence, and evading U.S. Border Patrol officers; they can go straight to the U.N. personnel in charge in northern Mexico.

Mexico, given its desire to be a leader in third-world solidarity, should immediately agree.

I say this partly tongue-in-cheek, of course, but it does beg a question: where are the Mexican authorities in all this? 300,000 kiddies are trekking across their country and the authorities know nothing about it?
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  First Lady of Guatemala said today the people are not fleeing anything.
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166   2014-07-10 22:04  

#11  The same network of Mexican Liberation Theology people who smuggled central Americans during the 1980s are doing the same thing now. Wonder why MS-13 has an international reach? It's because of those people.

Slip Enrique Pena an extra $50 million and tell them to jail the members of the network, and northbound illegal immigration would stop in 24 hours.

Kill them and immigration would stay stopped for a generation.
Posted by: badanov   2014-07-10 21:07  

#10  Procopius hits nail on head. Have heard "white Mexicans" (that's what they call themselves here in Tucson) repeat the same meme.
Posted by: borgboy   2014-07-10 21:00  

#9  I don't see that happening. The votes are not there. Let's see what happens in the House and Senate in 2014. Maybe there will be a glimmer of good that comes about from these elections.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-07-10 16:42  

#8  No, JohnQC. You have to start by getting rid of Baraq Hussein as president. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening any time soon but with any luck we can turn the Senate against him in November.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-07-10 13:23  

#7  The first order of business ought to be to send several plane loads back to where ever they came from. The word will get out and the flow will start to be stemmed. Push Mexico hard to stop allowing them to pass through. Strengthen security at the border with a physical fence or a virtual electronic fence or whatever it takes to stem this tide. Both parties need to quit worrying about getting the Latino vote--do what's right for the country for a change. Obey the laws of the country. Start by getting rid of Holder as AG. He's got to be the worst we have ever had.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-07-10 11:46  

#6  Mexican Authorities have been bought off - by the coyotes, cartels, or Obama,


or all three
Posted by: Frank G   2014-07-10 10:57  

#5  Regardless of what is done with these people, children, etc, we're missing an identification opportunity if we're not doing Biometrics [facial/DNA] on these illegal and feeding it into a central database.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-07-10 09:09  

#4  Refuges usually involve people who want to 'go back home'. If they're refugees, let's classify them properly as victims of ethnic cleansing because their (purer Spanish blood) ruling caste needs to unload mestizos y indios to avoid reform or revolution.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-07-10 07:48  

#3  "Outrage? UN needs no stinkin' outrage!"
Posted by: borgboy   2014-07-10 00:41  

#2  Where's the outrage, reserved for a derailed oil or coal train, about this event spilling 1300 kiddies all over the landscape, obviously spoiling the land....
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-07-10 00:31  

#1  Mexican train derails, stranding 1,300 migrants headed toward U.S.
(Reuters) - A cargo train used by Mexicans and Central Americans to travel toward the U.S. border derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Wednesday, stranding about 1,300 migrants, emergency services said.

Many of the migrants aboard were young people and nobody was injured when the train nicknamed "the Beast" came off the tracks, a spokesman for local emergency services said.

Since last October, more than 50,000 unaccompanied minors, most from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, have been caught illegally crossing the southwest border of the United States.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-07-10 00:23  

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