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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,939 posts)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 06:05 PM Nov 2018

Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico

Hundreds of people who arrived in Tijuana with the first wave of the migrant caravan planned to spend Wednesday night in a makeshift camp by the Pacific Ocean, steps from the tall border fence that separates Mexico and the United States. But those plans shifted in the evening, after local and state officials opened a temporary shelter – and about 300 local residents gathered by the encampment to demand the migrants leave the upscale Playas de Tijuana neighborhood and go to the facility.

During a confrontation that lasted more than three hours, area residents sang the Mexican national anthem and waved Mexican flags. They chanted “Mexico! Mexico!” each time a bus transporting migrants left the beach for the temporary shelter. Mostly women and children went to the shelters, while young men from the caravan said they were determined to stay together at the beach and await the estimated 2,000 more caravan members on their way to Tijuana.

Pushing, shoving, kicking and a couple of blows broke out between masses of residents and migrants, illuminated by the crescent moon and mobile light towers, set up by authorities on the beach on the U.S. side of the border. More than three dozen municipal and federal police watched, separating people and trying to prevent the situation from devolving into fistfights and chaos.

After midnight, residents assaulted journalists, injuring at least three, according to reporters on the scene.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/violence-breaks-out-as-first-wave-of-migrant-caravan-arrives-in-tijuana-mexico/ar-BBPKy3D?li=BBnb7Kz

No doubt Trump and Fux Noise are going to raise a stink about this.

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Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2018 OP
And where are Trump's troops? - Not on the CA border! Bfd Nov 2018 #1
U.S. military is there: janx Nov 2018 #2
Every country, every society has a percentage of Republicans Saboburns Nov 2018 #3
All beaches in Mexico are public land jcgoldie Nov 2018 #4
Well look at that...we have some south of the border deplorables. nt UniteFightBack Nov 2018 #5

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
3. Every country, every society has a percentage of Republicans
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 07:23 PM
Nov 2018

I see a hundred or so Mexican Republicans showed up to throw rocks at, fight, and rage their hate toward other human beings.

The Saudi Arabian Republicans murdered a man inside their own Embassy and embarrassed themselves in the cover up.

Russian Republicans go to extreme lengths and sometimes go abroad to kill the humans that are critical of their dictator.

Polish Republicans just staged a march and demonstration of some quarter of a million calling for racial purity.

Muslim Republicans commit acts of terrorism killing many due to their hatred, racism, and religious fanaticism.

Central and Eastern Europe has seen a staggering rise of Fascism with its requisite racism and calls for ethnic purity/cleansing not seen since post WW1.

Yes the rise of Republicanism world wide the past 10 years has been near unbelievable to me. I have watched Gob smacked, dazedly, and in terror as it has unfolded. And so quickly. At 51 I have never seen racism like this. Never seen so much hate in the world.

I don't see any good way out of it either. I am filled with loathing for what I believe will come in the next 10 or 15 years.

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