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Caribbean-Latin America
The international conspiracy to erase America's borders
2024-11-19
[Washington Examiner] More than 1,100 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border but just 24 miles north of Mexico’s border with Guatemala, a gleaming new mall is set to be completed next month that will become just one node in a vast network of over a hundred facilities across Central and South America, all designed to make it easier for migrants to enter the United States.

This mass migration infrastructure is being built and paid for by the United Nations, foreign governments, international nongovernmental organizations, and American taxpayers.

In Tapachula, a city in the Mexican state of Chiapas just north of Guatemala, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is building a 75,000-square-foot migrant aid center on land donated by the Mexican government. Once completed, the facility will house employees from UNHCR, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration, the U.N. International Children’s Emergency Fund, and dozens of other NGOs, all dedicated to helping migrants transit to the U.S.

The facility was commissioned to "respond comprehensively to the needs of people who arrive in Mexico ... migrant refugees who travel together from all continents, and arrive in Tapachula in need of a response or attention," Giovanni Lepri, Mexico’s representative to UNHCR told reporters when the project was first announced.

A SERVICE TO MIGRANTS
In addition to providing migrants with food, transportation vouchers, and cash cards, the migrant aid center and many others like it will also provide logistical tips on how to safely reach the U.S. and even legal advice on how best to enter.

When asked how she could justify her organization essentially helping migrants break the laws of another country, an employee of the Cadena NGO told Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies, "As an organization, we’re not here to judge. We’re just here to provide a service."

Cadena, other NGOs, and the U.N. are providing migrants with services often paid for by U.S. taxpayers. According to Bensman, UNHCR received $1.9 billion from the Biden administration in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023 after receiving just $377 million from the Trump administration in 2019.

In addition to its new facility in Tapachula, UNHCR and IOM plan to spend an additional $1.6 billion in 17 Latin American countries through a network of over 200 NGOs for its 2024 Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan, which aims to assist over 2.2 million migrants in search of "a country and community that accepts them, offers stability, effective protection, and opportunity for a life lived with dignity."

The report singles out the opening of "Safe Mobility Offices by the United States Government in some countries of the region" as a development that will have "a positive and stabilizing impact" on migrants "by providing them with options for a regular pathway to the United States."
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#8  @2 I hear Somalia is nice
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-11-19 11:01  

#7  Reference for above:
https://www.thewaywardrabbler.com/p/africas-new-king-solomon
Posted by: Old Patriot   2024-11-19 10:47  

#6  RE #2: I understand Equatorial Guinea or Fernando Po may be available.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2024-11-19 10:45  

#5  ...a gleaming new mall is set to be completed next month that will become just one node in a vast network of over a hundred facilities across Central and South America

Over a hundred bombing targets, then.
Posted by: Raj   2024-11-19 10:08  

#4  Once America’s borders are closed tight against illegals in late January, will all this organization go on vacation for the next four years — or longer, depending on the results of the 2028 election — or will they openly weaponize the hopeful masses they worked so diligently to create?
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-11-19 09:25  

#3  Or maybe in the abandoned city of Chernobyl ...
Posted by: 3dc   2024-11-19 08:24  

#2  Insist the UN be moved to the worst combat area in the Ukraine.
Posted by: 3dc   2024-11-19 08:22  

#1  Trump needs to KICK the F..KING UN out of the USA ASAP!
Posted by: 3dc   2024-11-19 08:21  

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