So, not all Mexican citizens accept the caravan

[Value Buy]

Looks like some citizens are not too happy about all the caravan migrants camping near the border.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/violence-breaks-out-as-first-wave-of-migrant-caravan-arrives-in-tijuana-mexico/ar-BBPKy3D?li=BBnb7Kz

[Pants]

Yup, there are assholes everywhere!

[andi9899]

What's your point? Border towns are notoriously dangerous. And the article doesn't say that they're against the caravan per se. They just want them at the shelter instead of outside. Plus, the article says that the neighborhood they're in is upscale. If thousands of homeless people were dumped in an upscale neighborhood here, the same would happen. The residents would be urging someone to take them to a shelter set up for them.

[swamp]

Well, they are all a bunch of bad hombres.  Rapists, drug dealers, murderers.    

[billisonboard]

... not all Mexican citizens accept ...

... some citizens are not too happy ...

I am attempting to come up with a human situation in which "all accept" or in which "some aren't unhappy". Can't think of one.

[Tennesseer]

Nov 16, 2018 12:32:33 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

What's your point? Border towns are notoriously dangerous. And the article doesn't say that they're against the caravan per se. They just want them at the shelter instead of outside. Plus, the article says that the neighborhood they're in is upscale. If thousands of homeless people were dumped in an upscale neighborhood here, the same would happen. The residents would be urging someone to take them to a shelter set up for them.

Trying to throw shit on a wall and hoping some of it sticks.

[happyhoix]

No one likes refugees coming to town.  Dirty, maybe desperate enough to steal, tramping down the landscaping.

Look at Mary and Joseph. They had to put up in a barn, because no one wanted them anywhere else, and she was hugely pregnant.

The more things change, the more they don't change.

[Value Buy]

Mexico may not be paying for the wall but they are paying for the needs of the caravan.
The city expects to spend $4 million on them......welcome to our world!

[Value Buy]

Nov 16, 2018 12:58:35 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Nov 16, 2018 12:32:33 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

What's your point? Border towns are notoriously dangerous. And the article doesn't say that they're against the caravan per se. They just want them at the shelter instead of outside. Plus, the article says that the neighborhood they're in is upscale. If thousands of homeless people were dumped in an upscale neighborhood here, the same would happen. The residents would be urging someone to take them to a shelter set up for them.

Trying to throw shit on a wall and hoping some of it sticks.

Border towns dangerous?
Why do all the American kids flock to them all the time?

[djAdvocate]

Nov 16, 2018 16:05:08 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Mexico may not be paying for the wall but they are paying for the needs of the caravan.
The city expects to spend $4 million on them......welcome to our world!

after hearing that Trump got $100M for his inauguration fund, i am having a difficult time reacting to $4M.

[Value Buy]

Nov 16, 2018 16:35:33 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Nov 16, 2018 16:05:08 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Mexico may not be paying for the wall but they are paying for the needs of the caravan.
The city expects to spend $4 million on them......welcome to our world!

after hearing that Trump got $100M for his inauguration fund, i am having a difficult time reacting to $4M.

I was sort of wondering when I read four million dollars if this was in pesos or American greenback

[Pants]

Nov 16, 2018 12:41:39 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

... not all Mexican citizens accept ...

... some citizens are not too happy ...

I am attempting to come up with a human situation in which "all accept" or in which "some aren't unhappy". Can't think of one.

I mean, you'd think we could go with something like "Nazis are bad." And yet...

[andi9899]

Nov 16, 2018 16:35:33 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Nov 16, 2018 16:05:08 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Mexico may not be paying for the wall but they are paying for the needs of the caravan.
The city expects to spend $4 million on them......welcome to our world!

after hearing that Trump got $100M for his inauguration fund, i am having a difficult time reacting to $4M.

Especially since pesos don't convert to the same amount of American dollars. I just googled it and $4 mil pesos is $198,318 American dollars. And pesos don't spend the same. You could pay $20 for something in America and buy the same thing in Mexico for $50 pesos.

[oped]

Nov 16, 2018 14:33:24 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

No one likes refugees coming to town.  Dirty, maybe desperate enough to steal, tramping down the landscaping.

Look at Mary and Joseph. They had to put up in a barn, because no one wanted them anywhere else, and she was hugely pregnant.

The more things change, the more they don't change.

[thyme4change]

Nov 16, 2018 12:41:39 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

... not all Mexican citizens accept ...

... some citizens are not too happy ...

I am attempting to come up with a human situation in which "all accept" or in which "some aren't unhappy". Can't think of one.

~125 million people probably don't universally agree on much.

[Value Buy]

I read an article on the internet either Wednesday or late last night on Mexican police taking bribes from migrants to put them on a "list" which is then handed over to our border agents who pick and choose who to interview for asylum.
Today I have searched and searched but cannot find it........
People waiting at the border included a few Russians, some Cubans, and a few from I believe, Syria who had supposedly been jailed and released so they escaped the homeland, along with the usual central Americans migrants. It also sounded like pregnent women never were picked by the border agents to come across. The number of people picked depended on whether theU.S. had facilities to put the people in.
Unless you bribed the police, you did not get on the list. I now understand why Mexico does not stop the caravans. It is about the money.
Wish I could find it today, but it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet today. I know it has to be there somewhere.......

[Tennesseer]

Nov 23, 2018 10:12:17 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I read an article on the internet either Wednesday or late last night on Mexican police taking bribes from migrants to put them on a "list" which is then handed over to our border agents who pick and choose who to interview for asylum.
Today I have searched and searched but cannot find it........
People waiting at the border included a few Russians, some Cubans, and a few from I believe, Syria who had supposedly been jailed and released so they escaped the homeland, along with the usual central Americans migrants. It also sounded like pregnent women never were picked by the border agents to come across. The number of people picked depended on whether theU.S. had facilities to put the people in.
Unless you bribed the police, you did not get on the list. I now understand why Mexico does not stop the caravans. It is about the money.
Wish I could find it today, but it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet today. I know it has to be there somewhere.......

Maybe you dreamed it last night. People often have bad dreams after overeating.

[mroped]

Are you implying that American border patrol agents are playing favorites? Rae they also taking bribes or exchange favors?
Do you also mean to imply that that makes our immigration system flawed?🤔

[mroped]

I just found this. It doesn’t look like we are really making much of an effort to see this through.

www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-asylum-volunteers-20181121-story.html