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October 19, 2018

Mexico to Offer Visas to Caravan Migrants, but Only 100 a Day

Source: WSJ

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala—Mexican authorities have agreed to grant humanitarian and asylum visas to a caravan of 3,000 Honduran migrants massing at the country’s southern border—but the authorities also appear to be breaking up the group into smaller pieces.

Ambassador Luis Manuel Lopez Moreno said migration authorities will allow some 100 migrants a day in to review their humanitarian and asylum requests.

The move ensures the migrants can enter Mexico legally until their cases are resolved, which normally takes a few months. If their cases are approved, they will be allowed to stay in Mexico permanently.

However, the migrants will be free to roam in Mexico, the envoy said. That means nothing prevents them from heading to the U.S. border and trying to enter while their cases are being heard in Mexico.

Read more: https://.wsj.com/articles/migrant-caravan-masses-near-mexican-border-1539952930

October 19, 2018

Migrant Caravan Masses Near Mexico's Southern Border

Source: WSJ

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala—A caravan of 3,000 Honduran migrants that has drawn the ire of U.S. President Trump began to mass near Guatemala’s border with Mexico, setting up a showdown with Mexican authorities who have vowed to prevent the group from continuing their journey to the U.S.

Tension was palpable in Ciudad Hidalgo, a tiny tropical village in Mexico surrounded by rain forest and banana plantations that borders Tecun Uman in Guatemala, with the two towns separated by a muddy river. Late Thursday, some 300 Mexican federal police officers equipped with antiriot gear were deployed to the border crossing ahead of the caravan’s expected arrival.

On Thursday, the Mexican government asked the United Nations Refugee Agency for help in assisting migrants filing for refugee protection at the border, as Mr. Trump threatened to deploy the U.S. military and close the southern U.S. border with Mexico if it doesn’t stop what he described as an “onslaught” of migrants.






Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/migrant-caravan-masses-near-mexican-border-1539952930



Such convenient timing.

October 18, 2018

1968: The Monkees commit suicide

1968 was a hell of a year. Their movie Head was purecommercial suicide. Here’s a beautiful reprint of the movies ending - jumping off a bridge, kicked off a TV - they knew what they were doing. Amazing

The Porpoise Song

October 18, 2018

Trump treatens US Military action at Mexico Border

Flags Return of Family Separations

If you are looking out for Reichstag Smoke, a minor incursion into Mexico would spark a crisis that would wipe Khashoggi and everything else bar Wall Street off the front pages.


Trump says he is considering a new family separation policy at U.S.-Mexico border

President Trump confirmed Saturday that he is considering a new family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border because he believes the administration’s earlier move to separate migrant children from parents was an effective deterrent to illegal crossings.

Asked to respond to a report in The Washington Post that the administration is weighing a new family-separation policy, Trump told reporters, “We’re looking at everything that you could look at when it comes to illegal immigration.”

Trump said the soaring number of illegal border crossings is “a terrible situation” and argued that family separations likely would help scare away some undocumented migrants from trying to enter the United States.

“If they feel there will be separation, they won’t come,” Trump said.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-is-considering-a-new-family-separation-policy-at-us-mexico-border/2018/10/13/ea2f256e-cf25-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2a62734c6e55

Military Action on The Table

... I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!... @realDonaldTrump

Why now? Doh!

Where’s the fire?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/honduran-migrant-group-treks-north-as-u-s-calls-for-tighter-borders-idUSKCN1MN0RA

There’s been a Adminstration buildup for several days about a mob of thousands of Hondurans marching towards the US border. Tens of Thousands. Drugs. Crime. If Mexico doesn’t stop them I will. They shall not pass.







October 17, 2018

'Horseface'

How did we get this far?
How much lower can we go?
A rapist on the Supreme Court?
A resident journalist sawn to bits?

What have we become
my dearest friends
Everything we love
falls away in the end

And we can have it all
Our Empire of dirt
I have let you down
I have let it hurt


What’s happening to America?
(Sorry to be so down)

October 16, 2018

Warning: Graphic

October 12, 2018

Kanye West delivers impromptu 'keynote' at Washington Apple store

Obviously Kayne is seriously ill.
https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/11/kanye-west-delivers-bizarre-keynote-at-washington-apple-store

Following his meeting with President Donald Trump, rapper Kanye West visited an Apple Store in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, where he proceeded to climb atop a display table and deliver a "keynote" to gathered customers.

The scene was chronicled by Religion News Service reporter Jack Jenkins, who happened to be at Apple Georgetown when Kanye decided to drop in.

Shared on Twitter, Jenkins' account starts off as a celebrity sighting, but quickly takes a turn for the surreal when West asks to give an impromptu "keynote" to customers in the store.

According to Jenkins, West said he made a hat for Trump that reads "make America great," a take on the president's "Make America Great Again" or "MAGA" slogan. Trump donned the cap during his meeting with West earlier today, the rapper said, showing proof of the encounter on his iPhone.

West claimed the inclusion of "again" in Trump's catchphrase "hurts b[l]ack people," according to Jenkins.

https://twitter.com/jackmjenkins/status/1050488062529196032


October 8, 2018

MAGATS

It’s time to stop playing nice with Trump supporters and standardise on a name they deserve:-

Make America Great Again Trump Supporters

I understand some might feel a bit squeamish using such a strong word with family and friends. Well, the right have taunted us for years with DemocRAT Party. There in no better description for the foul disgusting politics they are spewing.

What do you think?

October 5, 2018

BREAKING: GOP Sen. Collins says she'll vote to advance Kavanaugh nomination

Source: AP

BREAKING: GOP Sen. Collins says she'll vote to advance Kavanaugh nomination, will announce confirmation decision Friday afternoon.


Read more: https://www.apnews.com



The phoniest of the phonys weighs in.

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