Trump Has Made His View of Migrants Clear. Will It Stop Them From Coming?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The incoming president has promised the largest deportation effort in U.S. history. Now migrants are weighing a new Trump administration in deciding whether to trek to the United States.

This Sunday was the day that Daniel García, a Venezuelan delivery worker living in the capital of Colombia, had planned to begin an arduous land journey toward the United States.

Then Donald J. Trump became president-elect, and everything changed. Unsure if he could make it to the border before Mr. Trump’s inauguration, and fearful that he would be turned away once Mr. Trump was in office, Mr. García, 31, has decided to stay put.

“It is a very high investment,” he said of the journey north, which he figured would cost him $2,500, about a year’s savings. “I prefer not to risk it,” he added.

With Mr. Trump now headed back to the White House, many potential migrants are rethinking their plans, while border officials are working hard to understand what a Trump presidency will mean for the number of people trying to make it the United States.

Mr. Trump made a broad crackdown on immigration a pillar of his campaign — a message that spread around the world.

In Mexico, humanitarian groups and migration officials are preparing for a possible rush of migrants to the United States before he assumes the presidency in January. » | Julie Turkewitz, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and Genevieve Glatsky | Saturday, November 9, 2024

Julie Turkewitz and Genevieve Glatsky reported from Bogotá, Colombia, and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega from Mexico City.

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Libyan Regime Accused of Exploiting Humanitarian Crisis
THE GUARDIAN: Muammar Gaddafi's officials admits unseaworthy migrant ships are being allowed to sail as a protest against Nato air strikes

The Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is allowing thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants on to overcrowded, unseaworthy ships in an apparently calculated attempt to use migration as a weapon to pressure Nato and the EU countries backing Libya's rebels.

Libyan officials admit they are not stopping boats teeming with African migrants embarking on perilous journeys to Europe in protest at air strikes, which they say have destroyed the country's coastguard.

Turning a blind eye to people smuggling has had disastrous humanitarian effects, apparently leading to the deaths of hundreds of boat people during unsuccessful attempts to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa, Malta, and other parts of Europe.

Officials are still assessing the death toll from the sinking of an unseaworthy and overcrowded ship that is feared to have claimed hundreds of lives when it went down less than two miles off Tripoli last Friday.

Officials said they were doing nothing to encourage the journeys to Italy, but could see no reason to stop them, because doing so would serve the interests of Nato member states bombing Libya.

"We say to Europe that we can no longer do what we used to do," said the prime minister, al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi. "And that's because Nato has ruined our coastal defences." » | Martin Chulov in Tripoli and Simon Tisdall | Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Illegal Migrants and the Aztlan Movement: Obama’s Public Health Option and Amnesty
CANADA FREE PRESS: Settle in for a long read… There is NO way to do this topic justice in a column length article. But there is NO more important topic to cover today!

South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson became Democrats’ public enemy #1 when he recently shouted out “YOU LIE!” at Mr. Obama during his internationally televised special address to a joint session of congress. Joe Wilson was the ONLY individual in that joint session who was telling the truth that day!

Obama was indeed lying, as he has been consistently since the moment he arrived on the political scene.

Joe Wilson was the ONLY individual in both houses of congress with the guts to say so. He has since been reprimanded by his fellow members of the House, and the Obama lies have been buried with rushed alterations to the public health bill which will indeed offer free (taxpayer funded) health care to illegal immigrants. But that’s just the beginning of the story!

We are in a very dangerous place in history and if American citizens don’t wake up, take note and take action immediately, we will soon find themselves the only people living in America, without any Constitutional rights.

The administration of “hope and change” represents hope and change for everyone in the world except legal United States citizens. Their domestic policies are very popular with groups that stand opposed to all things American, and their foreign policies serve only America’s enemies abroad.

The Obama administration hasn’t only abandoned the “war on terror,” they are extending US Constitutional rights to known terrorists here and abroad. Our soldiers are forced to Mirandize enemy combatants on foreign soil, in an insane attempt to turn a real war into some police matter in which the terrorists have civil rights under US law.

As American citizens are stripped of their individual constitutional rights daily, those rights are being offered to terrorists, illegal migrants and third world thugs. It doesn’t take a constitutional scholar to recognize that legal US citizens are under attack from within. But it does take some effort to understand why, how, and what to do about it.

Let this stand as a warning to all legal US citizens. The terms “American” and “Americans” have been rewritten to include everyone sympathetic to the international leftist agenda of destroying the United States of America. Legal US citizens—taxpayers!—are the target of people who plan to dismantle the United States, reducing our nation to a third world socio-economic status.

The United States faces three very formidable enemies today, all of which are represented by the new US administration.

Extreme Islam
The Aztlan Movement
International Secular Socialism

All three of these enemies are moving as one within the new administration. All three movements are anti-US, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist movements.

Much has been written and reported on Extreme Islam and the international socialist movements in the US. But very little has been reported about the Aztlan movement, which is the third front in the war on the USA.

In recent years, US citizens have taken note of the federal push for a public health option aimed at providing free health care to illegal aliens. They have also taken note of the constant federal effort to pass some form of amnesty for more than 20 million illegal immigrants. This number will become an estimated 60 million, if allowed to pass into law.

US citizens need to understand why the federal government is pushing these two anti-American initiatives and why they will do everything in their power to pass both into law, no matter how many US citizens stand opposed. Learning about Aztlan >>> JB Williams | Monday, September 21, 2009

Empty Words, or Does the Government Mean Business This Time?
GUARDIAN UNLIMITED: Everyone who applies for a new job should be required to produce their birth certificate or passport as part of a tough new plan to "flush out" illegal immigrants, the Government said.

Even employers who report a worker they suspect is illegal could be hit with a fine of thousands of pounds under the proposals.

Immigration minister Liam Byrne announced proposals for a new system of civil penalties for firms which employ illegal workers, suggesting they should be fined up to £10,000 to cover the cost of deporting someone from Britain.

Mr Byrne said: "What we are proposing here will, I think, flush illegal migrants out.

"We are trying to create a much more hostile environment in this country if you are here illegally. Plan to ’flush out’ illegal workers (more)

Mark Alexander

Mass Rally by Far-Left to Give Amnesty to 500,000 Illegal Migrants
THE TELEGRAPH: A mass rally yesterday called for a one-off amnesty to allow hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the UK to become full citizens.

The Strangers Into Citizens campaign, which attracted thousands of supporters to Trafalgar Square, proposes that migrants who have been in Britain for more than four years should be given a two year work permit without access to benefits.

Then, at the end of the two years, they would be given indefinite leave to remain, subject to criteria such as an English test, criminal checks and employer references.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, who held a multilingual mass at Westminster Cathedral beforehand, told the rally that immigrants deserved to be treated with "fairness, with justice and with dignity". Amnesty demanded for 500,000 immigrants

Mark Alexander