Have you seen the vids? You know what 14,000 migrants on the march look like? It IS a bit intimidating to say the least. Especially since this is nothing really new. Happens several times a year. But they are getting bigger and more organized and obviously have coordination and backing.
The solution isn't the Army or NG. The solution is treating it as a REFUGEE issue. Not an immigration issue. If you house these folks comfortably for 3 or 4 months, enough pressure could be brought on their home countries to FIX the violence, crime, economic issues.
They aren't refugees because they aren't fleeing anything. There is no war, no displacement, no bad weather. They just want money. The people brought their economy woes on themselves for being socialist. They will support the same kind of socialism here. Then we can be the next Honduras or Venezuela.
They ARE refugees from drug lords, dirty cops, corrupt govt.. The fact they don't organize and shoot back is pretty irrevelent. ASYLUM is what's generally offered to isolated political dissidents and folks on the POLITICAL outs with the incumbent govt. In numbers and frequency like these -- they are refugees.
They want to save their KIDS from being swept up by MS13 or the drug lords. Or going to prison to be tortured and held without process. It's those SHITHOLES that the left didn't think existed outside of Africa on full display...
They are the drug lords and gang members. It's them, their brothers, fathers, uncles and cousins. Exactly as they are here. The gangs and drug lords they are fleeing are from American gangs exported to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Reduce the gangs in both countries. Shoot them as they invade.
They are NOT the drug lords and gang members. ALTHOUGH if a brother or father or mother is trying to SAVE their kid from the lords and gangs, they may already be too far indoctrinated in the ways of those orgs.
This is the escalation of rhetoric that's clouding people's judgement. When the hordes of mass migrators came up thru Southern Europe, the difference was they were REFUGEES from actual war and violence with more than ONE SIDE shooting at them. But the PRIMARY diff was -- the majority of those (mostly Muslim) refugees did not YEARN to be French or English or Swedish. They just wanted to SURVIVE. And it was clear, that was not IMMIGRATION --- but just refugee flight.
In THIS case, the majority marching to America probably YEARN to be American. That's why they don't STOP in Mexico. Doesn't mean they are not refugees, it's just that Mexico is not a real improvement over Honduras or Guatemala.
Mexico is country where the drug lords have beheaded or dismembered over 30 town mayors in the past 4 years or so. A country where the entire police force of Acapulco recently was disarmed because it was so permeated by the drug lords that it could not be trusted at all. That's the EQUIVALENT of war. Just that it's not a fair fight.
Not fair to indict ALL of them as criminals. But it is FAIR to DEMAND that they be DETAINED and sorted out. PREFERABLY on the Mexico side of the border. And THAT should be the bottom line here. If Mexico allows these caravans to pass, they need to become Mexico's problem.
Someone in thread already suggested TAKING Mexican ground and establishing refugee camps on that side of the border. That's not a bad idea and certainly better than calling on our troops to gas them or use them as artillery practice. Ask the Mexican govt to HELP sort them out them out in the camps. And we'll provide the logistics for detaining them there..
