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TX Law Enforcement officers line the banks of the Rio Grande to wait for migrant caravan
By Martin Savidge and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 7:19 AM ET, Fri February 8, 2019
Members of the US Border Police guard the Rio Bravo, natural border between Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Mexico, on Thursday.
Eagle Pass, Texas (CNN)Eagle Pass, Texas, is usually a pretty quiet place. But this week, it has turned into an immigration showdown involving hundreds of law enforcement officers and a migrant caravan.
The migrants, about 1,800 of them, are being housed by the Mexican government across the Rio Grande in Piedras Negras.
The Central American immigrants want to come to the United States but US authorities are telling them to stay in Mexico while they wait through the process of seeking asylum.
The migrants began showing up Monday, arriving along the border on more than 50 buses.
In preparation for the migrants' arrivals, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, sent 500 officers from the department of public safety to Eagle Pass, according to Mayor Ramsey English Cantu.
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Moostache
(9,895 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Not citizens entitled to the full force of the law like the people of Ferguson.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)enacting the Bravery of Being out of Range.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)I don't know what is. Texas cops are willing to protect you from a little, brown toddler, but not so much your crazy neighbor with the arsenal of military weapons.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Why, there's enough he-man truck testosterone on display to scare off most single moms and their babies, right?
What a nasty, mean spirited and unrecognizable image that portrays of my beloved county. If they hadn't already survived far more terrors and dangers on the long road to ask for asylum and aid, the immigrants face more uncertainty from our once magnanimous nation that has always succored and welcomed refugeesin the past. They might be intimidated by armed soldiers in big trucks but the law gives us hope that Trump's madness will not endure.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)with all these Law Enforcement Officers waiting for the "ghost caravan".
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)When this blows a big hole through the state budget, will Texas turn to the federal government for reimbursement? What are they going to do when the Trump administration stiffs them? What will get cut? And how will the governor spin it so that he doesn't take the blame for burning through a big pile of money?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)"social" program.
old guy
(3,283 posts)after the photo op was done and the donut shop opened.