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    Default Re: The migration crisis on the US-Mexico border

    Quote Posted by I am B (here)
    The fact that the situation is so similar in the US with a very different kind of immigrants (culturally especially) makes me think.
    There is a deeper problem in the concept of immigration and insertion that's just not being tackled properly. I don't know if it is cultural, political, or economic.
    Many of us view immigration in an empathetic and compassionate way and it does not seem right on many levels. We look at the immigration process in a way that is personal, what does it mean for me, my family, my community. We see a strain on our infrastructure, millions of people have entered Europe and America without adding schools, roads, housing, doctors, fire stations, police, teachers, nurses or hospitals. Deep in our gut something feels a bit off but we have a tendency to think that the people in charge either know more than we do or understand the problem better than we do.

    Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a larger agenda at play here, people are nothing more than herd animals being shuffled from one pen to another. Over the years thousands have died making the journey, estimates (at least in the USA) put the number of immigrant/asylum-seeking women being raped at 60%+ and nobody is even wagering a guess on how many children are being sexually exploited. This is all about politics, power, centralized control and all the human suffering is nothing more than acceptable collateral damage.

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    Kudos rgray, I remember listening to one of the and we know segments that he said there were a group of kids from Mexico that boarded a bus provided by the u.s. and when it got to it's destination here in the u.s. 7 of those children were missing. I think trumps assault on human trafficking for 4 years put a tournakit on the flow of kids being abducted and now the river of children for harvest is flowing wide open again very sadly.

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    My heart goes out to you Karen 💜

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    McCarthy slams Harris for spending 'more time at airport' than border (5:30)


    Kamala’s Border Stop Backfired - Mexicans Out In Droves (8 min)
    The only people in El Paso to welcome Kamala Harris were protestors. She had no 'welcome' here.
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    They have lost control (8:44)
    Tucker: How is this not the biggest story in the country? You are changing the population of America without the consent of Americans, but doing it secretly on a huge scale. And no one is noticing?

    A driver with a 20 year career for a chartered bus company reached out to reporters, even though she was told not to speak to the media. Why? What she was seeing every day on the job was so strange, so without precedent. She felt she had to tell the public about it. Starting in April, she said the government agents began instructing her to pick up busloads of immigrant children. She was told to take them deep into the interior of the United States away from the border and do it as quickly as possible.

    The illegals are bused as far as New York, Chicago, and Miami. The problem? If you are trying to change the population of a country with people who live there without finding out, it’s tough to do with buses. When you pull a bus packed with illegal minors without proper ID, people tend to notice.

    So the Biden administration came up with a different plan:
    Quote: “Now they are flying the kids because the buses were easier to videotape going down the highway.”
    {snip}

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    Default Re: The migration crisis on the US-Mexico border

    Very long ago, there used to be a country named "Central America" or so i remeber being told, eventualy it disbanded, turning into all the countries in south America plus part of Mexico

    Those countries, in their core, have a thing about "rebuilding" the "great empire", which means like the Mayan and Aztec empires, that went all the way to the current US territory, as history has recorded so far

    The native people, on those nations, have a very firm plan to recover that land

    This is called "La Patria Grande" "The great homeland". And they are actively working on this movement, since decades ago

    What you write here, is just a part of it, a very defining one i think, but one part only, it comes from top to down

    There is a reason we, on my homeland, are very touchy about similar things. But you know that already i believe

    "La Patria Grande"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_Grande

    "About Central America"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...entral_America
    Quote Federal Republic of Central America

    Flag of Central America
    In 1823, the Federal Republic of Central America was formed. It was intended to be a federal republic modeled after the United States of America. It was provisionally known as "The United Provinces of Central America," while the final name according to the Constitution of 1824 was "The Federal Republic of Central America." It is sometimes incorrectly referred in English as "The United States of Central America." The Central American nation consisted of the states of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. In the 1830s, an additional state was added, Los Altos, with its capital in Quetzaltenango, occupying parts of what is now the western highlands of Guatemala as well as part of Chiapas (now part of Mexico), but this state was reincorporated into Guatemala and Mexico respectively in 1840.
    The thing is, it does seem they care and want to recover the pieces of land that now belong to the US, that used to belong to Mexico (also considered Aztects) by most of them, so it's a clear attempt to retake the land. Regardless of it used to be part of "Central America" or not

    I think i talked about this before somewhere here on Avalon, but can't remember where. No matter, same message. I do believe this is what is happening right now, and it has been planned and executed silently for very much several decades

    You guys should look at that list of countries and compare it to where the immigrants are going to the US, it shall be reveiling in lots of ways

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    They have lost control (8:44)
    Tucker: How is this not the biggest story in the country? You are changing the population of America without the consent of Americans, but doing it secretly on a huge scale. And no one is noticing?

    A driver with a 20 year career for a chartered bus company reached out to reporters, even though she was told not to speak to the media. Why? What she was seeing every day on the job was so strange, so without precedent. She felt she had to tell the public about it. Starting in April, she said the government agents began instructing her to pick up busloads of immigrant children. She was told to take them deep into the interior of the United States away from the border and do it as quickly as possible.

    The illegals are bused as far as New York, Chicago, and Miami. The problem? If you are trying to change the population of a country with people who live there without finding out, it’s tough to do with buses. When you pull a bus packed with illegal minors without proper ID, people tend to notice.

    So the Biden administration came up with a different plan:
    Quote: “Now they are flying the kids because the buses were easier to videotape going down the highway.”
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    From Infowars today:
    Half A Million Illegals Crossed Since Harris Named Border ‘Czar'

    According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures, around 500,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since Kamala Harris was named border ‘czar’.

    The Washington Free Beacon reported the findings, noting that only three months has passed since Harris took on the responsibility, and that the half a million figure is just those that have been apprehended.

    The CBP says around 180,000 immigrants are being caught per month. In April agents arrested 178,854 illegal immigrants, the highest monthly figure for 21 years. That figure was then surpassed in May as agents apprehended 180,034 illegals.

    By the time June’s figures are reported in the coming days, the combined number is expected to be over half a million, more than the entire population of Miami, Florida or Cleveland, Ohio.

    Harris only bothered to visit the border when President Trump announced he was making a trip. Even then Harris visited El Paso, some 1000 miles away from where the crisis is taking place.

    Previous to this, Harris lied and claimed she had been to the border, telling NBC’s Lester Holt “This whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”

    When Holt pushed back and said she had not, Harris snapped “I—and I haven’t been to Europe. And I mean, I don’t—I don’t understand the point that you’re making,” then again laughed maniacally.

    On Tuesday, Republican Senator Ron Johnson argued that Harris’ trip to El Paso was designed to distract the media and keep them away from the real crisis hit areas of the border.

    “They took her to a point in the border where she wouldn’t see the crisis and so the press wouldn’t report on the crisis,” Johnson said.

    The Senator added, “You just simply can’t understand what this administration is doing. We literally are apprehending now about 6,000 people per day. That’s I mean, that’s a large caravan every day being processed, some of them being returned, others are being dispersed. But this crisis is not going away. It’s just under everybody’s radar because the press isn’t covering it.”

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    Default Re: The migration crisis on the US-Mexico border

    They are apprehending 6000 a day. How many more are getting through with no problem. No other country in the world would allow this. I don't understand why people are not outraged.
    "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake

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    Roughly 7 years ago I attended a presentation by the CFO of a U.S. university. The presentation pertained to the university's strategic plan, let's say to 2025. At one point in the presentation the CFO remarked on the challenge to find a way to educate the many Mexicans (presumably, who would attend the university). This raised a question mark in my mind as there were relatively very few Mexican students in the university's population, and I not heard of any plan to open a campus in Mexico. Hence why would this be a particular challenge to point out? I now keep this in mind as events roll out.

    As a note, the goal or one of the goals (as I recall) of the strategic plan was to achieve "singularity".

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    Trump participates in border security briefing (39 min)
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    More background to the way-out-of-control situation, that no doubt is being amplified and encouraged by factions aiming to weaken the US.

    My comment on the article title (which seems PR-opportunistic and quite inaccurate) is that those Venezuelans fleeing their country are desperately trying to solve their economic problem. It's nothing to do with 'health'.
    Driven by pandemic, Venezuelans uproot again to come to US

    28 June, 2021

    Marianela Rojas huddles in prayer with her fellow migrants, a tearful respite after trudging across a slow-flowing stretch of the Rio Grande and nearly collapsing onto someone’s backyard lawn, where, seconds before, she stepped on American soil for the first time.“I won’t say it again,” interrupts a U.S. Border Patrol agent, giving orders in Spanish for Rojas and a dozen others to get into an idling detention van. “Only passports and money in your hands. Everything else — earrings, chains, rings, watches — in your backpacks. Hats and shoelaces too.”

    It’s a frequent scene across the U.S.-Mexico border at a time of swelling migration. But these aren’t farmers and low-wage workers from Mexico or Central America, who make up the bulk of those crossing. They’re bankers, doctors and engineers from Venezuela, and they’re arriving in record numbers as they flee turmoil in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves and pandemic-induced pain across South America.

    Two days after Rojas crossed, she left detention and rushed to catch a bus out of the Texas town of Del Rio. Between phone calls to loved ones who didn’t know where she was, the 54-year-old recounted fleeing hardship in Venezuela a few years ago, leaving a paid-off home and once-solid career as an elementary school teacher for a fresh start in Ecuador.

    But when the little work she found cleaning houses dried up, she decided to uproot again — this time without her children.

    “It’s over, it’s all over,” she said into the phone recently, crying as her toddler grandson appeared shirtless on screen. “Everything was perfect. I didn’t stop moving for one second.”

    Last month, 7,484 Venezuelans were encountered by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border — more than all 14 years for which records exist.

    The surprise increase has drawn comparisons to the midcentury influx of Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro’s communist rule. It’s also a harbinger of a new type of migration that has caught the Biden administration off guard: pandemic refugees.

    Many of the nearly 17,306 Venezuelans who have crossed the southern border illegally since January had been living for years in other South American countries, part of an exodus of nearly 6 million Venezuelans since President Nicolás Maduro took power in 2013.

    While some are government opponents fearing harassment and jailing, the vast majority are escaping long-running economic devastation marked by blackouts and shortages of food and medicine.

    With the pandemic still raging in many parts of South America, they have had to relocate again. Increasingly, they’re being joined at the U.S. border by people from the countries they initially fled to — even larger numbers of Ecuadorians and Brazilians have arrived this year — as well as far-flung nations hit hard by the virus, like India and Uzbekistan.

    U.S. government data shows that 42% of all families encountered along the border in May hailed from places other than Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — the traditional drivers of migratory trends. That compares with just 8% during the last sharp increase in migration in 2019. The Border Patrol recorded more than 180,000 encounters in May, a two-decade high that includes migrants’ repeated attempts to cross.

    Compared with other migrants, Venezuelans garner certain privileges — a reflection of their firmer financial standing, higher education levels and U.S. policies that have failed to remove Maduro but nonetheless made deportation all but impossible.

    The vast majority enter the U.S. near Del Rio, a town of 35,000 people, and they don’t try to evade detention but rather turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents to seek asylum.

    Like many of the dozens of Venezuelans The Associated Press spoke to this month in Del Rio, 27-year-old Lis Briceno had already migrated once before. After graduating with a degree in petroleum engineering, she couldn’t get hired in the oil fields near her hometown of Maracaibo without declaring her loyalty to Venezuela’s socialist leadership. So she moved to Chile a few years ago, finding work with a technology company.

    But as anti-government unrest and the pandemic tanked Chile’s economy, sales plunged and her company shuttered.

    Briceno sold what she could — a refrigerator, a telephone, her bed — to raise the $4,000 needed for her journey to the U.S. She filled a backpack and set out with a heart lock amulet she got from a friend to ward off evil spirits.

    “I always thought I’d come here on vacation, to visit the places you see in the movies,” Briceno said. “But doing this? Never.”

    While Central Americans and others can spend months trekking through the jungle, stowing away on freight trains and sleeping in makeshift camps run by cartels on their way north, most Venezuelans reach the U.S. in as little as four days.

    “This is a journey they’re definitely prepared for from a financial standpoint,” said Tiffany Burrow, who runs the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition’s shelter in Del Rio, where migrants can eat, clean up and buy bus tickets to Miami, Houston and other cities with large Venezuelan communities.

    They first fly to Mexico City or Cancun, where foreign visitors are down sharply but nearly 45,000 Venezuelans arrived in the first four months of 2021. Smugglers promoting themselves as “travel agencies” have cropped up on Facebook, claiming to offer hassle-free transport to the U.S. in exchange for about $3,000.

    “We’re doing things the way they do things here — under the table,” a smuggler said in a voice message a migrant shared with the AP. “You’ll never be alone. Someone will always be with you.”

    The steep price includes a guided sendoff from Ciudad Acuna, where the bulk of Venezuelans cross the Rio Grande. The hardscrabble town a few hundred wet steps from Del Rio is attractive to both smugglers and migrants with deeper pockets because it had been largely spared the violence seen elsewhere on the border.

    “If you’re a smuggler in the business of moving a commodity — because that’s how they view money, guns, people, drugs and everything they move, as a product — then you want to move it through the safest area possible charging the highest price,” said Austin L. Skero II, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector.

    But the number of smugglers caught with weapons has recently increased in the area, and agents who normally hunt down criminals are tied up processing migrants.

    The uptick in migrants crossing is “purely a diversion tactic used by the cartels” to carry out crime, Skero said as a group of Haitians carrying young children emerged from a thicket of tall carrizo cane on the riverbank.

    Once in the U.S., Venezuelans tend to fare better than other groups. In March, Biden granted Temporary Protected Status to an estimated 320,000 Venezuelans. The designation allows people coming from countries ravaged by war or disaster to work legally in the U.S. and gives protection from deportation.

    While new arrivals don’t qualify, Venezuelans requesting asylum — as almost all do — tend to succeed, partly because the U.S. government corroborates reports of political repression. Only 26% of asylum requests from Venezuelans have been denied this year, compared with an 80% rejection rate for asylum-seekers from poorer, violence-plagued countries in Central America, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

    “I can write their asylum requests almost by heart,” said Jodi Goodwin, an immigration attorney in Harlingen, Texas, who has represented over 100 Venezuelans. “These are higher-educated people who can advocate for themselves and tell their story in a chronological, clean way that judges are accustomed to thinking.”

    Even Venezuelans facing deportation have hope. The Trump administration broke diplomatic relations with Maduro when it recognized Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s rightful leader in 2019. Air travel is suspended, even charter flights, making removal next to impossible.

    Meanwhile, as the migrants leave Del Rio to reconnect with loved ones in the U.S., they are confident that with sacrifice and hard work, they’ll get an opportunity denied them back home.

    Briceno said that if she had stayed in Venezuela, she would earn the equivalent of $50 a month — barely enough to scrape by.

    “The truth is,” says Briceno, hustling to catch a bus to Houston where her boyfriend landed a well-paying oil industry job, “it’s better to wash toilets here than being an engineer over there.”

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    Default Re: The migration crisis on the US-Mexico border

    Honestly, but not wishing to be considered an "asset" or a "dissinformation agent" or whatever, think about this

    How is it, that former US president Trump, along with the same Mexican president they have right now, were able to control thousands of immigrants and stop them from invading the US, and just these days, we barely hear any news about them, on the news channels, and even more, how they can't stop them in the first place? There were plans actively being implemented and those plans work, as it has been proven already. So..

    I'm actually angry about this, right now, because i can see it happening, and i don't care if you call me provocatour or whatever. The US is is being invaded by external countries, and we know where it comes from, and people are so afraid to speak up about it now that they are allowing it, for the most part. It's just not how it must be, the entire US culture is very valuable to the world, and i don't speak about the government, i reference the human history, the culture itself!

    Something that drives me mad is this

    When foreigners reach the US, the don't wan't to become American people, and learn the way, or customs, or traditions, no. They overwrite it with their own country ones, until it becomes a second home, and the natives go away. That's not asking for help, that's malicious invading culture, and then they complain about what the Spanish did to them 500 years ago, while repeating the same? Hypocritical, but they are thought they "own" it, so they just act about it right now

    I'm going crazy mad about this so i'm going to stop posting right now lol
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    Locals report concerns for safety as border crisis worsens (5 min)
    • Texas landowner Alison Anderson has experienced multiple migrants on her property and says she is constantly concerned for the safety of her three daughters.

    • This week, three illegal immigrants broke into a home in Sierra Blanca, Texas. They stole two loaded handguns, ammunition, food and clothing.

    • What we've seen here is an increase. In all the years that I've had personal experience in dealing with illegal aliens, we have never dealt with a single family unit. Where we live there's no females, no children and there are absolutely no family units. It’s all mostly single males that are traveling in groups.

    • Three nights ago there was a group at our next door neighbor's house circling the vehicles and tapping on their daughter's bedroom window.


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    A very interesting Tucker Carlson update, just 5 mins, published last night US time. He's obtained a whistleblower report on the US military secretly flying illegal immigrants within the country.

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    It makes me sad that the people from Cuba who really SHOULD be allowed into the US are being told not to come here. If they could get to Mexico, they would be welcomed. Unbelievable.
    "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake

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    Texas to begin arresting migrants for trespassing (3:32 min)
    Texas Governor Greg Abbott is taking the border crisis into his own hands. He’s directing state law enforcement to start arresting illegal immigrants for trespassing.

    The Federal Government, the Biden Administration, refuses to protect the American public by giving the resources to the border patrol that is necessary for us to secure the border.

    This is going to help Texas but likely to push the illegal immigration to states like New Mexico, Arizona and California.

    The Biden administration is still paying $2 billion to fulfill the contract and tell those companies not to build it. They are taking American taxpayers money and they’re just not getting anything out of it.

    We’re seeing 180,000 people come every month.

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    If a US family is caught trespassing, if you or I are caught trespassing, we can be arrested. But if ten males, illegal aliens who all claim to be cousins are caught trespassing, they cannot be arrested.

    A lot of citizens are absolutely frustrated with this. They’re angry. They can’t even sleep at night because people are try to break into their homes and ranches 24/7.


    Gov Greg Abbott EXPOSED, Order Allows Illegal Aliens Enter U.S. Freely (16 min)
    EXCLUSIVE! John Dice is a former lawman who has been actively documenting activity at the border, and has confirmed through multiple sources that illegal aliens are entering the United States via Texas, unchecked by law enforcement, due to orders that came directly from Governor Greg Abbott's office.
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    There’s An Agreement Between The Biden Administration
    And The Mexican Government
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    Flights are coming in from McAllen, Texas since August 9th. These deportees are from Central American and not Mexicans. It’s having a huge effect. The Mexican citizens just found out that they have to pay for these flights. They are getting an influx from both the north and south. The mainstream media isn’t reporting about it.

    When reports asked the Mexican Commissioner of Immigration about the deportations, and why Mexican people have to pay for it, his response was, “What deportation are you talking about?” The Commissioner was right there where a plane was transporting deportees of Guatemala. It’s a blatant lie and clearly an agreement with the Biden administration and the Mexican government.

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    From https://borderreport.com/hot-topics/...uarez-corridor

    ‘Coyoteros’ shifting traffic of Ecuadorian migrants to El Paso-Juarez corridor

    10,000 citizens of western South American nation arriving in Mexico each month to attempt entry into U.S.; many falling victims to crime, some have gone missing

    12 Aug, 2021


    Ecuadorian immigrants pray on the bank of the Rio Grande after being smuggled into the United States from Mexico on April 15, 2021 in Roma, Texas.

    Ecuadorians have been leaving their country in large numbers during the past 20 years due to economic, political and crime woes. But that migration has accelerated “spectacularly” recently, with Mexico being their springboard to the United States, says an expert on migration from that region.

    In 2020, at least 3,000 Ecuadorians flew to Mexico and did not return; that number has shot up this year to 10,000 per month, said William Murillo, director of New York City-based 1-800 Migrante, a legal services organization focusing on citizens from Ecuador and their families.

    “Mexico in 2018 did away with visa requirements for Ecuadorians; anyone with a passport from Ecuador can enter freely. Since then, we have seen a spectacular increase in travel to Mexico with the intent” of staying to pursue the American dream, Murillo said.

    Two factors are fueling the increase: a bad economy exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and a trend toward “family reunification” that has picked up since January.

    “It’s parents who haven’t seen their children in many years and send for them or children who grow up and want to go with (a parent) in the United States,” Murillo said. “It’s also jobs, which are scarce in Ecuador, corruption, violence, crime and a bad COVID situation […] they’re barely starting to vaccinate over there.”

    The East Coast of the United States is a common destination for these migrants and South Texas is the usual path to get there. However, the environment of lawlessness and fear over recent massacres in Tamaulipas have pushed this traffic to El Paso and Arizona.

    Migrants from Ecuador are now the second-most apprehended nationality in the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol, after citizens of Mexico. The agency says it has encountered 33,996 Ecuadorians this fiscal year in the region.

    This transition has been far from seamless or safe. Ecuadorians have become targets of criminals and corrupt government officials the minute they step on a Mexico-bound airplane in their country, Murillo said.

    Ecuadorians, a billion-dollar industry for smugglers, cartels

    U.S. officials and some advocates say Ecuadorians pay between $12,000 to $15,000 to be smuggled into the United States. That equates to nearly $1 billion in smuggling fees paid this year alone.

    Many migrants end up shelling out much more money during the trip north, Murillo said.

    “Extortion and kidnapping begin at Mexican immigration checkpoints and even at the Mexico City airport. We’ve known of cases in which the travelers are taken from the (customs) line and led to a room. […] they are robbed and sometimes handed over to criminals – kidnappers – outside the facilities,” he said. “The ransom adds $2,000, $3,000, $5,000 to the cost of the trip.”


    A mother and her children from Ecuador walk to where the United States Border Patrol is processing them after they illegally entered the United States on March 29, 2021 in Roma, Texas.

    Murillo said the dangers for Ecuadorians are greater the closer they get to the United States.

    “The border is worse. There is crime, corruption and criminals are in a constant dispute for territory. It’s a war zone,” he said. “They see migrants as an easy way to finance other illicit activities, they recruit men (as drug couriers) and women for prostitution.”

    Tamaulipas too dangerous for some migrants


    Murillo said the “coyoteros,” the point-of-contact smugglers in Ecuador, are the ones now sending more people to El Paso and Arizona instead of South Texas because of the perceived danger in Tamaulipas, across the border.

    “The great majority of Ecuadorians go with a coyotero. They are the ones who direct the (migration) flow. The traditional, most utilized route from Mexico into the U.S. is Matamoros-Brownsville, but they have seen many problems with (cartel) violence, murders, kidnappings. Now not just Juarez, but many other border towns that saw little transit from Ecuador are now seeing a greater amount of them,” he said.

    Still, 16 Ecuadorian citizens have gone missing in Mexico since Jan. 1. Only three have been located. One turned up in Juarez, one was in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the body of a third was identified in South Texas.

    The fate of the other 13 remains unknown, but Murillo says things don’t look good.

    “If they die on the way or stay somewhere else, this is usually passed on by a friend or travel companion or (the smuggler),” he said. “What worries us are the forced disappearances: armed men arriving at a safe house and taking some people away, or armed men in vehicles intercepting migrants about to cross (the border). Those kinds of things because sometimes you never hear from them again.”

    The group has stories and photos about missing Ecuadorians on its web page 1800migrante.com.

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    From Infowars today:

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    Second DHS Whistleblower Says ‘Cultural War’ Taking Place Within Agency, Officials Incentivized To Admit As Many Migrants As Possible

    Another insider at the Department of Homeland Security blew the whistle to Project Veritas on the agency’s “cultural war,” claiming that immigration officers are incentivized to approve visas for unqualified applicants.

    The whistleblower said that the internal war within DHS is between employees who believe in national sovereignty versus the globalist faction who don’t believe in national borders or nation states at all.

    “There is a cultural war going on between the conservatives and the people who like open borders, and it’s been going on for years. The conservatives are losing,” the insider told PV founder James O’Keefe in an interview aired Thursday.

    The insider explained how the federal government encourages border officials to approve as many applicants as possible, regardless whether they’re qualified or not to enter the U.S.

    “When they [visa renewal applicants] ask for an extension under the deference policy, we’re supposed to accept the fact that the first approval was valid, and therefore, we just approve it. It’s numerically centric. They [DHS] want us to approve as many [applicants] as possible,” the whistleblower said.

    The whistleblower also claimed that border officials receive bonuses contingent on the number of applicants they process.

    “It’s a bad thing because it incentivizes approvals. If they denied 90 percent, there would be a far less amount of cases processed because it takes so much longer. If you approve a bunch of cases, then you are going to obtain a higher bonus because the processing numbers are higher,” the insider said.

    “If you are getting a bonus because you’re approving of someone coming into the country and working — which could potentially be an American job — I think that is unforgivable.”

    “We’re supposed to be there to protect national security, and we’re supposed to be there to protect American jobs,” the insider said, adding he expects “retaliation” from the federal government.

    “I’m not afraid of it. I’m doing the right thing,” they said.

    This comes just days after a separate DHS insider revealed to Project Veritas that transnational criminal cartels are exploiting loopholes in the immigration system to carry out lucrative child sex trafficking operations.

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