Why Is Mexico Allowing a Direct Attack on the U.S. Border

via Pueblo sin Frontreras Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pg/PuebloSF/photos

In case you’ve missed it, there is an interesting situation brewing on our southern border where an increasingly hostile Mexico seems to be assisting a direct attack on U.S. sovereignty.

For quite a few years there have been stories of sorties by the Mexican military into U.S. territory for ill-defined purposes.

For five days now hundreds of Central Americans — children, women, and men, most of them from Honduras — have boldly crossed immigration checkpoints, military bases, and police in a desperate, sometimes chaotic march toward the United States. Despite their being in Mexico without authorization, no one has made any effort to stop them.

Organized by a group of volunteers called Pueblos Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, the caravan is intended to help migrants safely reach the United States, bypassing not only authorities who would seek to deport them, but gangs and cartels who are known to assault vulnerable migrants.

Organizers like Rodrigo Abeja hope that the sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.

“If we all protect each other we’ll get through this together,” Abeja yelled through a loudspeaker on the morning they left Tapachula, on Mexico’s border with Guatemala, for the nearly monthlong trek.

When they get to the US, they hope American authorities will grant them asylum or, for some, be absent when they attempt to cross the border illegally. More likely is that it will set up an enormous challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration policies and its ability to deal with an organized group of migrants numbering in the hundreds.

The number of people who showed up to travel with the caravan caught organizers by surprise, and has overwhelmed the various towns they’ve stopped in to spend the night. Pueblos Sin Fronteras counted about 1,200 people on the first day.

About 80% of them are from Honduras. Many said they are fleeing poverty, but also political unrest and violence that followed the swearing in of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández after a highly contested election last year. The group often breaks into chants of “out with JOH.” They also chant “we aren’t immigrants, we’re international workers” and “the people united will never be defeated.”

Actually, they aren’t defying anything. Mexico has the ability to turn these people back. The fact that they didn’t and they are allowing them to proceed on this march tells you all you need to know about what the game is here. This is a direct response to Trump insisting on building a wall on the border. It is a thumb in the eye. It is a screw-you. What makes this particularly vile and reprehensible is that people are being given hope and their lives uprooted to serve the political goals of Mexico and of an activist group.

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