Will the migrant caravan headed north from Honduras
have implications for US midterm elections? By Ann Corcoran, 10/16/18.
Yikes! the caravan is made up of mostly
young men! It looks just like the European invasion! Just a reminder to all,
these are not refugees. (See
my most recent discussion about the misuse of the word ‘refugee.’)
They
are mostly economic migrants, but the Left-wing Open Borders advocates will say
they are seeking asylum from persecution for their race, religion, political
view, and will call them refugees. If that is the case, they are required to
ask for asylum in the first safe country they enter.
I
know you are saying as you read this that Mexico isn’t safe, but indeed it is
considered so for the purpose of asylum. It will be a real test of the
new Mexican government if they permit the movement of the Honduran caravan
across Mexico and to the US border.
Just
as Elizabeth Warren’s Indian heritage stunt isn’t good for the Dems three weeks
out from the mid term elections, neither is this migrant caravan should it
reach our border.
It
will just be one more argument in favor of President Trump’s hardline immigration
stance.
Here is the AP at
the Chicago Tribune yesterday:
Hundreds of Honduran migrants surged over the Guatemalan border under a
broiling sun Monday hoping to make it to new lives in the United States, far from the poverty and violence of
their home nation.
Police
stopped the migrants at a roadblock outside Esquipulas for several hours in the
afternoon, but the travelers refused to return to the border and were
eventually allowed to pass.
They
arrived in town as night fell, exhausted by the day’s heat, hobbling on
blistered feet. Few carried food and some local residents began to organize to
help feed them. Some migrants asked for money, others passing a bakery were
handed bread.
They crossed from Honduras and into
Guatemala yesterday.
Earlier in the day, the migrants arrived at the Guatemalan border
singing the Honduran national anthem, praying and chanting, “Yes, we can.” The group estimated at 1,600 or
more defied an order by the Guatemalan government that they not be allowed to
pass. “We have rights,” the
migrants shouted.
Local
media coverage prompted hundreds more to join, and Dunia Montoya, a volunteer assisting the
migrants, estimated Sunday that the group had grown to at least 1,600 people.
Police gave their own estimate of around 2,000 on Monday. [Find out who the “volunteer” works for
and find out who organized the march. Could it be the Catholic Church?—-ed]
The
caravan formed a day after U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged the presidents
of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to persuade their citizens to stay home
and not put their families in danger by undertaking the risky journey to the
United States.
In
April, President Donald Trump threatened in April to withdraw foreign aid from
Honduras and countries that allowed transit for a similar caravan that set out
from the Central American country. That caravan dwindled as the group
approached the U.S. border, with some giving up along the way and others
splitting off to try to cross on their own.
Historian Dana Frank, an expert on human rights and U.S. policy in
Honduras, said the caravan could have political implications in the United
States less than a month before the midterm elections.
Yes,
it surely could and my prediction is that the impact will favor Republicans who
support Trump’s stronger border initiatives.
You
may have noticed that the Dems are campaigning with no mention of immigration
(if they can avoid it). So, make sure you send this news to everyone you know!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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