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March 22, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
05:49
Are We a Country or a Joke?
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
For weeks, we've heard about the so-called immigrant caravan of Central Americans, mostly Hondurans, that worked its way through Mexico up towards the United States.
Some of them traveled 2,500 miles to reach Tijuana at the U.S. border.
Here are some who climbed the pitifully small border fence.
And please note the flag.
It's the Honduran flag.
If they carried it for thousands of miles, it must be very precious to them.
If these trekkers are Honduran patriots waving the flag like a conquering army, they must be rather attached to their home country.
Well, then why did they leave?
And they're supposed to be refugees?
And, of course, there are plenty of people on the American side of the border who want to let them in.
Here is a welcoming committee.
With another Honduran flag, just to make them feel right at home.
The group that organized the caravan is called Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which means people without borders.
Note that it is Pueblo, people, not peoples, without borders.
If there is only one people and no borders, why should there be flags, Honduran or otherwise?
I suspect that just like the folks in the caravan, These"Pueblo sin Fronteras" folks can be plenty patriotic when it suits them.
I somehow doubt they would go in for this"no border, no nation" stuff if it applied to Honduras or Guatemala.
The Pueblo folks have issued a list of demands, and here's one.
We demand of Mexico and the United States that they open the borders to us because we are as much citizens as the people of the countries where we are and or travel.
They claim already to be citizens, not applicants for asylum.
And so, this demand, of course, follows logically.
Deportations which destroy families must come to an end.
They're all going to claim asylum.
But this map tells you why they are coming.
The blue countries are rich.
The yellow and red countries are poor.
Central America, which is where this bunch is from, is yellow.
And those countries are not just poor.
They have high levels of corruption and government violence.
Here's another map that tells you why they come.
The darker the country, the higher the murder rate.
In most Central American countries, people knock each other off at at least...
Ten times the U.S. rate.
And they get away with it.
Do you see the graph in the lower left?
That is convictions per 100 murders.
In some countries in Latin America, only one in five murders ever ends in a conviction.
So these places are a mess.
And these folks want to live in a country that isn't a mess.
That's our country.
Well, we haven't abolished our borders yet.
So they are not going to just waltz in.
They have to make an official application for asylum.
Then there's an interview to see whether the applicant has a credible fear of persecution in his own country.
But even a sympathetic Jesuit team called Reflection, Research, and Communication notes that the vast majority of Hondurans immigrate to the U.S. for economic reasons, not to escape violence.
And that is why, as the Daily Caller reports, activists send lawyers to the border to coach caravan asylum seekers.
That means telling these Central Americans what to say in order to have the best claim.
I wonder if they're telling them to outright lie.
At least we can be thankful that by the time they got to the U.S. border, the caravan had dwindled from about 1,500 to about 200.
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions sent extra guards to the border to make sure none of them jumped the fence.
And according to reports, 11 were caught doing just that and have been charged with illegal entry.
The Border Patrol processed the rest a handful at a time while the others camped out of the border, living in tents and eating food that do-gooders handed out to them.
We're let in, and there were 60-some-odd still waiting.
They're all making some kind of asylum claim, but there is no way to know if they're telling the truth.
No way!
They will then be released into the country while we go through the futile exercise of trying to find out if they were lying.
By the time an immigration judge rejects their claims and orders them out, they will have joined the 12 or 13 or, who knows, 20 million illegals already here.
The real problem is the asylum treaties that we signed that originally applied only to people displaced during the Second World War.
These treaties have been exploited by millions upon millions of people who think that anyone from anywhere deserves to come.
To the United States.
And every single person from this caravan who gets in sets a terrible precedent.
More will follow.
Are we a sovereign country or are we a joke?
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