© Reuters / Jose Torres
Nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Angola, Senegal, Cameroon, and several other African countries, stuck in southern Mexico after the government clamped down on northward migration in response to US pressure, are protesting for the right to continue their journey. They are demanding travel documents and government support, so that they can enter the US. On Tuesday, their demonstrations turned violent.
Video taken at Tapachula detention center near Mexico's border with Guatemala shows migrants pelting Mexican military police with trash cans, bottles, even the tents they've purchased for what has turned out to be an extended stay in the border town. Police are seen pushing back with riot shields as protesters chant. At one point, a seemingly unconscious policeman is carried into an ambulance as the rioters cheer, and another demonstrator is seen lying on the ground after reportedly fainting.
The demonstrations at the government-run migration center began peacefully enough earlier this month, but have grown increasingly agitated as migrants realize getting to the US is no longer as easy as showing up and claiming asylum. Mexican authorities, which once handed out "humanitarian" visas allowing migrants to travel north freely, reportedly ended the practice five months ago. Mexico has deployed tens of thousands of troops to its borders, in response to US President Donald Trump's threats to impose tariffs if the country is unable to get illegal crossings under control.
Mexican security forces were sent to clear out the protesters several days into the Tapachula demonstrations, reportedly arresting several men who were later released. Mexican immigration authorities report they are utterly overwhelmed by the enormous number of migrants flooding into the country. Authorities are detaining more African migrants than ever before, as many turned to crossing the Atlantic due to European nations curtailing their own open-door migration policy.
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R.C.
*BB& SOTTfolk: Read/Reread Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance !. Free at: [Link]
**(The question format is sarcasm. Duh,)
P.s., (I may have noted this?) I used to have the Stones, "It's Only R&R" and haven't heard the whole album since my 8-track broke. (I may be 'dating myself'; but no one else will. Whaaaaa! . . . . But the second line on the first song oF the whole album reminds me of you: "The drummer thinks that he is dynomite!" [Link]
I'd forgottem how great the album, "It's Only R&R" was/is. E.g., ' Time Waits for No One' ... When did you last hear it? (I've read that they've never been known to play it in concert. Oh, I also have two Phenomenal stories re Stones concerts in Anaheim in 1978 - Jagger doing lines on the piano; and on the Tour filmed by Scorcese in Orlando.) Whatevah.
Have a listen:
R.C.
The more illegals, the higher the crime rate, the more dirty shot in the back while shopping a the dollar store mercenary style hits can be blamed on other likely suspects, which will be illegal immigrants regardless of whether there's truth to it or not, and in the end you and the rest will be forced to pay for the protective services of the same hit men that are shooting people down like dogs and then shoving some brain dead manchurian robot forward which their own news then say's was the killer.
Biggest corporate crime cabal in history are the private security corporations and those are really just an up-dated Nazi invention.
People get what they deserve.
You ever check out that guy on You Tube, Rick Beato? I only subscribe to three or four channels and his is one of them. He is a producer, musician, educator and has probably forgotten more about music than I will ever know. Very entertaining, and his enthusiasm for music is inspiring. [Link]
I was always WAY over my age in 'teenage' antics.
Indeed, SWIM* told me he once was supposed to drive out the surf crew for the Sat. Night at CB, was told this tiny 1mm square piece of mica cannot supposedly be four way W. Pane.
Oops. He said he was 16 at the time; the walls melting, clocks too; and listening to Goat's Head Soup over and over and over- and still,(he says) feels a pleasant 'audial flashback' whenever he hears that album.
I've had great luck with the Stones. (Unlike him...maybe. )
R.C.
*Someone Who I Met.
RC
R.C.
American countries (they invaded and put in puppet political systems) we will give you all you want...as long as you vote illegally as a democrat.
And what do you know the human traffickers have found another loophole.
From the article:
Migrants from Africa demanding the right to travel to the US and Canada clashed with Mexican military police after Mexico cracked down on free migration in response to US threats of economic retaliation.
NRN
R.C.
They must be able to legally meet the criteria for legal entry into the US. As with any country throughout the world, would you expect a stranger on you doorstep, wanting entry and possession to your home.
By analogy, why have a passport or other legal document,....ultimate chaos and anarchy...a feature of so called Western Democracy at this time by faceless and unnamed individuals. Forget Soros (he has one foot in the grave anyway, a new brand is emerging) and the unnamed, they are there to throw confusion into the mix.
Just my thoughts.
In the US, cops shoot and kill - daily - folks for doing that.
They should have first: broken out the fire hoses;
Next: Add some pepper spray.
Next: Load up a garbage barge and a seagoing TUG:
And give em a (relatively) 'luxury' cruise home.
R.C.
Note that the article says that they threw their 'own' tents (that they likely bought with the rolls of $100 U.S. bills they were given by some Soros flunkies.
RC
R.C.
What if you won the World's biggest Lottery: The Instant Billionaire! AFTER Taxes! (As if they pay any).
So you & your 100 'chosen' get to ride that spaceship to some exotic dimension/world world like Tahiti in 1800. (At least that's what even Trump and Soros believe, and Hell: They send courier-hand-delivered & high-tech 'disolving upon reading' 'telegrams' congratualing you on 'being one of the few lucky ones - the 1 of 1.000,000.
Do you go? SWIM* claimed (of course, he'd never 'won' so - like a soldier going overseas, who's never killed a man, wonders if he'll choke when the time comes,** - again, 'so' whatta ya do? SWIM claims he'd use to money to fund some truly freedom-oriented movement - but he knows that even the most benevolent have often turned tyrant. He feels exempt as to that; os so he tells me. But, then again, he claims that all he wants is some beautiful babes waving palm fronds - nothing more!.... :evil:)
But enough of his answers; what do you guess that you would do?
Me, I'd like to confidently say I'd stick around and try to reconstruct this infinitely wise and beautiful earth; that I was born here, and expect to die here - as far in the future as reasonably possible. You?
Your Friend,
R.C.
*Someone Who I Met
** Unfortunately, in this meager civll life, as for myself, I have discovered that answer; and yet, . . . I'm still typing.
RC
R.C.
Of course, I'm listening to Jackson Browne's "'For a Dancer'" at [Link]
I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away . . .
(Lyrics at: [Link]
(If one listens to it lightly, it sounds as if JB is saying that she wishes he and he r were, once again, dancing; A second, more important meaning is that she is wishing for folks at her funeral were dancing in celebration. (Listen and check they lyrics.)
It even has a near ending line: "Keep a fire for the human race."
R.C.
"We are getting old. We are not breakaway civilization material or will make a difference either way in this density if stuck here with whatever develops in the next decades. So yes, I will fight the battle of thought and even sacrifice my physical entity to protect my family and ideals if that time comes. "
AMEN, BROTHER!
R.C.
The article doesn't say how said people got there in the first place. I want to know if the PTB have invented a teleportation machine.
R.C.
Many also offloaded in norther South America to try their luck in various other countries of the region working their way down south. I also heard from the at the time Bolivian Consul to Chile that more than a few were entering Chile with illegally manufactured Bolivian ID cards!
Disgusting! Argh!
R.C.