Caravan Migrants in Tijuana: God Will 'Touch the Heart of Donald Trump' and Let Us In

[DonViejo]

Hondurans languishing in Mexico say they’ll come to America, one way or the other.

David Agren
11.30.18 5:02 AM ET

TIJUANA, Mexico—José Aguilar could taste the teargas tossed at the migrants as they marched to the border on Sunday.

Aguilar, 20, doesn’t seem deterred, however—not by the border patrol, not by the teargas, and not by President Donald Trump's repeated declarations that the caravan of Central American migrants would never enter the U.S.

Aguilar even acknowledges he is likely to march to the border again, hoping to capture the ear of the border patrol agents on the other side and press his case that he only wants to work in America. And he figures he has another force working in his favor, too: faith.

“I have faith in God we’ll get to the United States,” said Aguilar, who carries a Bible and a change of clothes in his backpack. “With the faith we have, [Trump] have a hard heart, but if God touches it, he’ll change and let us in.”

More than 7,000 migrants have congregated in Tijuana, hoping and praying for a miracle and passage into the United States. They quixotically set out in caravans from Central America, fleeing poverty and violence, and improbably crossed closed borders into Guatemala and Mexico, winding their way north to Tijuana.

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1. Migrants

A“With the faith we have, [Trump] have a hard heart, but if God touches it, he’ll change and let us in.”

Yeah, don’t count on that.

[Homer Wells]

2. Surrrrre!

God has spent the last seventy years looking for that dudes heart, and has always come up empty.

[allgood33]

3. If God can find it.

[HopeAgain]

5. Exactly, what heart?

[Luciferous]

4. Good luck with that.

[Leith]

6. They Are Setting Themselves Up for a Lot of Disappointment

agent orange enjoys causing pain in others.

Faith and prayers aren't going to help. They need a cadre of immigration lawyers.

[Solly Mack]

7. That's sad.

Truly sad...and not in the Trump use of the word either.

[peekaloo]

8. Only if He's clutching a fistful of dollars and Mar A Lagoon work visas.

I feel bad for that young man.

[lpbk2713]

9. Sorry. but God will smell sulphur on DT and will keep his distance.

...

[HAB911]

10. Magical thinking

[harumph]

11. If God is a Mickey D's double meat cheeseburger - I say go for it!

[Initech]

12. That's assuming that Trump has a heart to begin with.