pallidin Posted April 1, 2018 #1 Share Posted April 1, 2018 (edited) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/01/trump-calls-for-tough-immigration-reform-after-report-caravan-with-central-americans-heading-to-us.html President Trump called on Sunday for "tough" immigration reform after a report stated a caravan carrying more than 1,000 people from Central America is traveling through Mexico, with their last stop intended for the United States in hopes of entering the states illegally or by asking for asylum. Edited April 1, 2018 by pallidin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Serenity Posted April 1, 2018 #2 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Good luck with that. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted April 1, 2018 Author #3 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Who's going to stop them? The article says there's not nearly enough border patrol agents, and Mexico isn't stopping them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenemet Posted April 1, 2018 #4 Share Posted April 1, 2018 April Fools joke that Trump fell for? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted April 1, 2018 #5 Share Posted April 1, 2018 By caravan do they mean ? Or are they doing it the traditional way by camel? That would be a sight worth seeing, a camel caravan making its way majestically across the desert led by an enigmatic robed Bedouin. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted April 1, 2018 #6 Share Posted April 1, 2018 I'd be more impressed if it was 10,000. 1000 is a bit of a piddling amount for a Crusade isn't it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromdor Posted April 1, 2018 #7 Share Posted April 1, 2018 7 minutes ago, Vlad the Mighty said: I'd be more impressed if it was 10,000. 1000 is a bit of a piddling amount for a Crusade isn't it. Well they are advertising themselves on the news and traveling in a group. Ever see the 1978 movie "Convoy"? That being said, it seems this is a direct political attack on Trump and his immigration stance. Announcing your self to the media and traveling in a large visible group to the border with Mexico just standing to the side and waving is pretty telling. It's just short of the government opening ladder stores on the Mexican side of the wall. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted April 1, 2018 Author #8 Share Posted April 1, 2018 7 minutes ago, Vlad the Mighty said: I'd be more impressed if it was 10,000. 1000 is a bit of a piddling amount for a Crusade isn't it. Doesn't matter if its 10. Assuming its not an April fools joke, 1,000 at one time IS a lot, and no way of knowing who's criminal or not. Plus, if they get away with it, it will most certainly happen again and again. Hopefully April's fool joke 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted April 1, 2018 Author #9 Share Posted April 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, Gromdor said: Well they are advertising themselves on the news and traveling in a group. Ever see the 1978 movie "Convoy"? That being said, it seems this is a direct political attack on Trump and his immigration stance. Announcing your self to the media and traveling in a large visible group to the border with Mexico just standing to the side and waving is pretty telling. It's just short of the government opening ladder stores on the Mexican side of the wall. If this is real, the National Guard should be called-out for sure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted April 1, 2018 #10 Share Posted April 1, 2018 How about interdicting them before they get there? A Drone would surely have the capability to take them out, and would have - well ok, probably not plausible deniability, but deniability. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlitterRose Posted April 1, 2018 #11 Share Posted April 1, 2018 This smells like bs to me. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted April 1, 2018 #12 Share Posted April 1, 2018 I tried to track this story to see if it was for real. The only confirmation was Buzzfeed. I don't know how reliable they are. https://www.buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/a-huge-caravan-of-central-americans-is-headed-for-the-us?utm_term=.ombpJmqxL#.ulveQykBV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted April 1, 2018 #13 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Here comes Coxey's Army. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromdor Posted April 1, 2018 #14 Share Posted April 1, 2018 3 hours ago, pallidin said: Doesn't matter if its 10. Assuming its not an April fools joke, 1,000 at one time IS a lot, and no way of knowing who's criminal or not. Plus, if they get away with it, it will most certainly happen again and again. Hopefully April's fool joke It would have to be a helluva good April fools joke to fool Trump and Fox news, given that they both reacted to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent0range Posted April 1, 2018 #15 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Trump also said they were coming to take advantage of DACA...he must have forgot that there are no new applications being accepted. I love how he just makes things up, and people fall for it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F3SS Posted April 1, 2018 #16 Share Posted April 1, 2018 (edited) You say that as if any new anchor children won’t be given DACA status or something similar if some hardline rules aren’t put in place. Edited April 1, 2018 by F3SS 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent0range Posted April 1, 2018 #17 Share Posted April 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, F3SS said: You say that as if any new anchor children won’t be given DACA status or something similar if some hardline rules aren’t put in place. I say that because it's the law. Quote Important information about DACA requests: Due to federal court orders, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA. USCIS is not accepting requests from individuals who have never before been granted deferred action under DACA. Until further notice, and unless otherwise provided in this guidance, the DACA policy will be operated on the terms in place before it was rescinded on Sept. 5, 2017. For more information, visit Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: Response to January 2018 Preliminary Injunction. https://www.uscis.gov/archive/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenemet Posted April 1, 2018 #18 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Okay... I looked at the photos in the original article. Somebody's having a heck of a time trolling Fox and Trump. First... this isn't a group of people prepared to walk for over 20 days to get to a border. Some of these photos are from an activist march (see the guys in the safety vests?). Second, they've mixed multiple photos together to create a narrative (they don't cross the border by train like hobos did.) Trump fell for an April Fool's joke. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F3SS Posted April 1, 2018 #19 Share Posted April 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, Agent0range said: I say that because it's the law. https://www.uscis.gov/archive/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca I get that but when there are a whole bunch of new “dreamers” out there in a few more years what makes you think we won’t be dealing with the same thing again. Oh let them stay it’s not their fault, ad infinitum. 1 minute ago, Kenemet said: Okay... I looked at the photos in the original article. Somebody's having a heck of a time trolling Fox and Trump. First... this isn't a group of people prepared to walk for over 20 days to get to a border. Some of these photos are from an activist march (see the guys in the safety vests?). Second, they've mixed multiple photos together to create a narrative (they don't cross the border by train like hobos did.) Trump fell for an April Fool's joke. CNN says this is a yearly thing... https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/01/politics/trump-mexico-caravan-tweet/index.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenemet Posted April 1, 2018 #20 Share Posted April 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, F3SS said: I get that but when there are a whole bunch of new “dreamers” out there in a few more years what makes you think we won’t be dealing with the same thing again. Oh let them stay it’s not their fault, ad infinitum. CNN says this is a yearly thing... https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/01/politics/trump-mexico-caravan-tweet/index.html Aha. But still... Trump once again misunderstands the situation. I doubt that most of them will reach the border - they'll drop out along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted April 2, 2018 #21 Share Posted April 2, 2018 6 hours ago, Kenemet said: Okay... I looked at the photos in the original article. Somebody's having a heck of a time trolling Fox and Trump. First... this isn't a group of people prepared to walk for over 20 days to get to a border. Some of these photos are from an activist march (see the guys in the safety vests?). Second, they've mixed multiple photos together to create a narrative (they don't cross the border by train like hobos did.) Trump fell for an April Fool's joke. Note they even admit that in the caption for the second picture, which is of the same group of people from a slightly different angle. The first one was "Hundreds of Central Americans marching from the southern state of Mexico to the center and north of the country." Now all of a sudden it's "Hundreds of Central Americans attend a mass before they begin a Via Crucis on Palm Sunday from the southern state of Mexico to the center and north of the country, demanding respect for their human rights, asylum and reports of violence in their countries in Tapachula, Mexico March 25, 2018.", and now in fact you can see the cross the person at the front is holding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Grey Posted April 2, 2018 #22 Share Posted April 2, 2018 18 hours ago, Kenemet said: Trump fell for an April Fool's joke. 23 hours ago, ChaosRose said: This smells like bs to me. Nope. National Review, April 2nd Quote A volunteer group called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, (People Without Borders) headed up a “caravan” of Central Americans, most of whom headed to the U.S. over the weekend. Organizers counted 1,200 people, around 80 percent from the Honduras, on the first day of the journey. The Center for Immigration Studies reported that Mexican authorities permitted the caravan to pass “with relative ease.” CNN, 16 hours ago Quote Trump appears to be referring to a migrant caravan assembled by the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People without Borders), which was discussed on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" shortly before he published his tweet. It's not known if the President watched the specific segment, but he indirectly referenced claims mentioned in an on-air interview with a Border Patrol union representative. They are coming to test the resolve of immigration policy. They have already stated they will enter illegally. Canada cares about it's borders, don't you? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted April 2, 2018 #23 Share Posted April 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Dark_Grey said: Nope. National Review, April 2nd CNN, 16 hours ago They are coming to test the resolve of immigration policy. They have already stated they will enter illegally. Canada cares about it's borders, don't you? Note what I said above. The picture is of a religious march (with also a political element, but one that's solely concerned with Mexico). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromdor Posted April 2, 2018 #24 Share Posted April 2, 2018 3 minutes ago, Vlad the Mighty said: Note what I said above. The picture is of a religious march (with also a political element, but one that's solely concerned with Mexico). I think it is just lazy journalism. The probably just googled a picture to go with the article. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Grey Posted April 2, 2018 #25 Share Posted April 2, 2018 6 minutes ago, Vlad the Mighty said: Note what I said above. The picture is of a religious march (with also a political element, but one that's solely concerned with Mexico). 2 minutes ago, Gromdor said: I think it is just lazy journalism. The probably just googled a picture to go with the article. Grom is right. News outlets do this all the time since they already own the pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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