Category: VIOLENCE

CARAVAN MIGRANTS OVERWHELM TIJUANA SHELTER

Caravan Migrants Overwhelm Tijuana Shelter

Shelter now resembles a refugee camp

Will Racke | Daily Caller News Foundation – NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Officials in Tijuana have declared a humanitarian crisis in response to thousands of mostly Central American migrants who have arrived in recent weeks and overwhelmed temporary shelters in the Mexican border city.

As of Thursday night, at least 5,000 recent arrivals were camped in Tijuana, which is serving as a staging ground for the migrants to apply for asylum in the U.S. City officials estimate as many as 1,200 migrants arrived from the nearby city of Mexicali in less than 24 hours between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon, straining temporary shelters that were already operating at capacity.

At least 2,000 more migrants are traveling in a second caravan currently moving north through the central Mexican states of Jalisco and Queretaro — most are expected to end up in Tijuana in the coming weeks. In response to the influx, Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum declared an international humanitarian crisis and blasted the federal government for allowing the migrants to concentrate in the city.

“They have categorically omitted and not complied with their legal obligations,” Gastelum said Thursday at a news conference, according to the Arizona Republic. “So we’re now asking them and international humanitarian aid groups to bring in and carry out humanitarian assistance.”

The Tijuana municipal government says it is spending about $27,000 per day to house and provide care to the caravan migrants in the city. Gastelum, who has drawn criticism for his tough rhetoric about the caravan, warned that he would not authorize more spending as additional migrants arrive.

“I will not compromise public services,” Gastelum said. “I will not spend Tijuanans’ money, I will not bring Tijuana into debt now, in the same way we haven’t done so these past two years.

Tijuana, a sprawling border city of about 1.6 million, has long been a waypoint for migrants of all stripes seeking to cross the southwest border. But it has never had to accommodate the sudden arrival of so many homeless Central Americans, who are now waiting indefinitely to apply for asylum at the U.S. ports of entry.

Nearly all of the caravan migrants are being sheltered in Tijuana’s Benito Juarez sports center. Officials say the center, which is already over capacity, cannot hold any more migrants while still maintaining even minimal safety and sanitary conditions.

As the temporary shelter has come to resemble a refugee camp, Tijuana officials say a lack of coordination with the federal government has hindered the on-the-ground response to the caravan.

“We were faced with the federal government and state government and municipal government all unclear on who would be in charge, and no one wanted to take care of this thing,” Vega said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “As the municipal government, we have to take care of these people, and we have to take care of our community.”

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HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS PUSH ON TO US-MEXICO BORDER BRIDGE

Hundreds of migrants push on to US-Mexico border bridge

Trump on Thursday threatened to close the border altogether

By AFP

Tijuana (Mexico) (AFP) – Tension mounted as hundreds of Central American migrants massed at a Mexican border town headed on Thursday for a bridge crossing to the United States as President Donald Trump renewed his threats to repel them.

With US helicopters hovering overhead, a group made up mostly of men headed just after midday from the shelter they have been staying at since last week to the El Chaparral bridge around a kilometer (half a mile) away in Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego, California.

Trump on Thursday threatened to close the border altogether, having previously deployed nearly 6,000 troops to erect concrete barriers and razor-wire fences to deter what he has called an “invasion.”

“If we find that it gets to a level where we are going to lose control or where people are going to start getting hurt, we will close entry into the country for a period of time until we can get it under control,” Trump told reporters, before firing a warning to Mexico.

“The whole border. I mean the whole border,” he said, adding that “Mexico will not be able to sell their cars into the United States.” 

Tensions rose at the border when a local official and a human rights activist tried to convince the migrants both of the benefits of remaining in Mexico, and to submit their US asylum requests through official channels.

“We don’t want to!” shouted the migrants before continuing on to the bridge.

“Let us cross now, we’re already desperate, we’ve left family in Honduras, we need to work,” said a man called Wilson.

Authorities in Tijuana set up a job fair in an attempt to recruit skilled workers amongst the migrants for the benefit of local companies, while Mexico’s migration agency has offered them temporary residency papers.

Some have taken advantage of the offers but others are simply determined to reach the US.

Since setting out more than a month ago, mostly from from Honduras, thousands of migrants — including many women and children — have covered about 4,400 kilometers (2,700 miles), either walking or hitchhiking, before the first groups began reaching Tijuana at the end of last week.

But there have been tensions since they started arriving at the border town, particularly in the shelter housing around 4,500 Central Americans.

The migrants are mostly fleeing poverty and unrest in Central America’s “Northern Triangle” — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where gang violence has fueled some of the highest murder rates in the world.

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IEDs Found in London Flat Trigger Terrorism Probe, Arrest

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By Dan Lyman

UK police have launched a counter-terrorism investigation after two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found in a flat in London.

Metropolitan Police say they have arrested a 48-year-old man “on suspicion of an offence contrary to section 4 Explosives Substances Act 1883,” and he currently remains in custody.

The suspect was apprehended after explosives were discovered in an unoccupied apartment that was in the process of being renovated in Craven Park neighborhood of London.

“Officers attended the address and as a precaution, the block of flats was evacuated and local road closures put in place whilst specialist officers assessed the two devices,” police said in a statement. “Initial assessment was that they were both improvised explosive devices.”

“The two devices were subsequently made safe and recovered from the flat and are now undergoing further forensic examination.”

Police say they do not have reason to believe the suspect “has links to any terrorist organizations,” but also assert the investigation is in its early stages.

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BIG TECH STOCKS TANK AMID CENSORSHIP BACKLASH

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Stock market erases one trillion in gains

Infowars.com – NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Tuesday, November 20th: Border & Stock Market Chaos – Mexican locals and Honduran migrants continue to clash on America’s southern border, forcing police to maintain 24-hour protection of caravan members. And Big Tech stocks tank as companies ramp up censorship efforts.

Today’s holiday rebroadcast includes never before seen Alex Jones footage and highlights with UK journalist Katie Hopkins discussing the Islamic invasion of Western Europe. Also, media analyst Mark Dice breaks down liberal lunacy and fake news. Furthermore, Paul Joseph Watson provides his expertise on the migration crisis in Europe and America. Happy Thanksgiving week from Infowars!

 

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San Francisco Judge Blocks Asylum Ban For Aliens Who Cross Border Illegally…

Late last night another activist judge, U.S. District Judge Jon Steven Tigar in San Francisco (Obama appointee), issued a temporary restraining orderagainst the Trump administration’s modified emergency asylum policy which barred asylum for aliens who enter the country illegally.

[Read Court Ruling HERE] Setting up, yet again, another likely higher court appeal/decision.

While a challenge was predictable, frustrating and likely to be spun up by media, the ruling only applies to aliens who gain illegal entry and request asylum.

Nothing in the ruling stops the hardened border enforcement and/or current expedited review and deportation program. In essence, keep the illegal aliens out and the judicial ruling is moot (until defeated in higher courts).

Though it might frustrate the left-wing media and the open borders crowd, no court can successfully demand the President of the United States to stop border enforcement.  This is why it is critical to have a strong DHS Secretary focused on stopping illegal entry.

This ruling will obviously be appealed by the DOJ; and politically the Democrats realize, in the bigger picture, this ‘open-border’ narrative is not good for them.  On its face this ruling is ridiculous as it eliminates/undermines the legal process for asylum requests by removing the distinction of illegal or unlawful conduct in the application process.

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WESTERN EUROPE Refugees disastrous for German welfare state as almost 50% are illiterate, top professor shows

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The idea that migrants or refugees are needed for maintaining production in western societies has received another blow.

The footage below shows that refugees say they want to be engineer or scientist and continue with a professor who says most refugees are highly qualified.

But after one minute, another professor, Hans-Werner Sinn, shows with several studies, that a lot of refugees can barely read or write and need tremendous amounts of education to get them to work.

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Sinn, a top professor and the former President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, shows that two-thirds of Syrian graduates in Syria qualify below the threshold of literacy; the ability to read and write.

According to the professor in economics Germany should ask the question “are the right people coming to us?”

“Are those people who come to us the ones that our complex industrialised society needs? Or do those people who come to us need considerable training and education? Which is very expensive.”

The professor gives a clear answer in his college and says for example that it is not efficient “when you take a 25 or 30-year-old and try to teach him basic Latin that would normally be taught at school age”?

 

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SOUTHERN EUROPE Italian Minister wants his migration decree to be approved as soon as possible

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Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini urges parliamentary approval of his security-and-migration decree.

“Everything will collapse” if not signed by the 3 December deadline. There will be big consequences if the migration decree is not approved by parliament before timing out.

League leader Salvini speaking at a presentation of a blood-donation initiative at the interior ministry said: “The security decree is necessary for the country and it’ll be approved by December 3 or everything will collapse”.

He has asked that parliament respect the 3 December deadline and further said, “I refuse to think that some people may want to turn backwards”.

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