Migrant Caravan Clashes At Border, Try To Illegally Enter US
Migrant Caravan Clashes At Border, Try To Illegally Enter US.About a dozen or so migrants have been arrested after trying to illegally enter the US at the Southern border. Meanwhile local Mexicans residents have clashed with the migrant caravan demanding that they leave and go home.Many in the media are criticizing Trump for talking about the caravan less even though the coverage is still in the news at a local and national level. With clashes erupting and migrants arrested who was right?Was Trump right about the caravan?
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About a dozen people in the migrant caravan have been arrested for trying to illegally enter the United States.
We're also hearing that violence has erupted on the Mexico side of the U.S.
border, as Mexican residents are telling the caravan to go home because they don't belong here.
This kind of flies in the face of what we've heard from the press and critics of Trump.
That there wouldn't be violence, that these were just families, and that these people weren't going to try to enter the country illegally, they wanted asylum.
But they're clashing with local Mexican residents, and several people, including journalists, have been injured.
Now, we've seen violence from the caravan before.
I don't want to say it's this extreme wave of violence, but yes, at the southern border of Mexico, they clashed with the police, there were injuries, rocks were thrown, some people had Molotov cocktails, and according to an interior minister of Mexico, some people had guns.
Now the press is saying this was all a big ploy for the elections and that following the midterms no one's really talking about it.
But just because the press has stopped reporting on it doesn't mean it's not relevant.
So today let's take a look at the breaking news and figure out why Mexican residents are clashing with these migrants and just who and why people are being arrested.
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From Fox News, about a dozen members of Migrant Caravan arrested for trying to illegally cross U.S.
border, source says.
A small group was arrested near the beach in an area called Playas de Tijuana.
A large group was arrested in the mountains east of Otey Mesa, a San Diego community that straddles the Mexican border, the source said.
All were arrested for trying to cross the border illegally.
Shortly, a fight broke out Wednesday night in the Tijuana between local Mexicans and Hondurans arriving in the caravan.
The migrants complained the locals were yelling, go home, we don't want you here.
Members of the caravan complained to reporters that local police made no attempt to break up the fight.
The first wave of migrants in the caravan, which became a central theme of the recent US election, began arriving in Tijuana in recent days, and their numbers have grown each day.
The bulk of the main caravan appeared to still be about 1,100 miles from the border, but has recently been moving hundreds of miles a day by hitching rides on trucks and buses.
And from the Desert Sun, which is part of USA Today, they said, 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.
Rueda Gomez said it will cost about $4 million to care for the migrants for two months, including providing food and medical care.
He said the state government can only afford to fund this work for 10 days at most, so he has asked the federal government for support.
The violent night Wednesday marks the latest in rising tensions, as waves of migrants arrive in the border town south of San Diego, culminating a month-long journey across Mexico.
The critics or Donald Trump and the pro-Trump people?
residents and migrants had congregated by the beach, with local residents demanding
the immigrants leave the public space at the beach.
This is not an appropriate place for them, one local resident said.
There are appropriate places for them."
So who's right?
The critics or Donald Trump and the pro-Trump people?
Well, I don't think it's entirely clear cut, but I'm going to have to say what Trump said,
although not as extreme, is actually coming to pass.
Fights are breaking out.
The local residents of this Mexican town do not want the migrants sleeping on the beach or crowding their cities.
And they're getting into clashes with these migrants.
Fights are actually breaking out.
We saw violence earlier at the southern Mexico border.
So, I don't want to say that all of the migrants in the caravan are violent.
Of course not.
Many of the women and children have gone to shelters, but these young men are kicking, shoving, and fighting, and people are trying to break up these fights.
And many of them have actually tried to illegally enter the United States.
Now, do we need this massive border presence?
I don't know if we actually need that.
Maybe it was a big show for the elections.
I'm not sure, but we can say There is an issue.
It's strange to me that a lot of people are calling Trump supporters and, you know, a lot of people who want border security racist over these issues when you can see that even local Mexican residents are telling these people to go home.
I don't think you can fairly call this an issue of racism when you actually have other Hispanics and Latinos and Mexican citizens saying these people aren't welcome here and actually getting into fights with them.
It seems like this is more about economics and resources.
But one thing that I find particularly interesting is that on the same day we hear about these arrests and this violence, CNN runs the story.
The caravan faded from the news.
Obama predicted this would happen.
But I would say that simply because CNN and other outlets aren't reporting on this anymore doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
They can't just claim Obama was right because the press isn't reporting on it because the press chooses what to report on.
The article from Brian Stalter says, In the past few days, many members of the media have pointed out a sudden change in President Trump's priorities.
In the closing week of the midterm campaign, Trump mentioned the migrants traveling through Mexico toward the U.S.
southern border more than 60 times.
He portrayed the migrants as an imminent threat and parroted Fox's use of the word invasion to describe the travelers.
He pushed to keep the migrants in the news.
And yet Trump has only used the word caravan once since Election Day.
And it was almost in passing at a news conference the next day.
The migrants are still heading north, but you'd barely know it from Trump's behavior.
And it may be true that Trump isn't talking about the caravan all that often, so sure, if they'd like to criticize him for that.
But Trump, after the election, did change asylum rules.
This story from the New York Times on November 8th says, Trump claims new power to bar asylum for immigrants who arrive illegally.
The Trump administration, invoking national security powers meant to protect the United States against threats from abroad, announced new rules on Thursday that give President Trump vast authority to deny asylum to virtually any migrant who crosses the border illegally.
So is Trump talking about the migrant caravan less?
Yes, it would appear so.
Is immigration still in the news?
Yes, it would appear so.
If CNN and other outlets aren't going to report on the caravan simply because Trump isn't talking about it, then it kind of says to me that many of these outlets just report on whatever Trump talks about.
I mean, look, there's other news happening.
You can focus on whatever you want.
CNN obviously is just dead set on reporting whatever Trump is doing, and they ignore a lot of the other press.
Immigration is a huge issue.
If CNN isn't going to report on the violence on the Mexico side of the U.S.
border, you can't really blame Trump for that.
But there is other news about immigration and illegal immigration.
Yesterday we also saw this story from Fox News.
More than 650 illegal immigrants crossing southern border detained in Arizona over two days.
We also saw this story from AZ Central, which is part of the USA Today Network.
Video shows smuggler cutting down barbed wire hours after it was placed at Yuma border.
Customs and Border Protection released video on Wednesday showing what appears to be a human smuggler cutting through concertina barbed wire that agents had placed atop the border fence near Yuma just hours before.
The 30-second clip was taken on November 7th at the border fence erected next to the Sanchez Canal, which is located west of the San Luis port of entry near where the border juts up along the Colorado River.
We put up concertina wire in order to help sturdy the infrastructure that's in the area, Agent Justin Callenger told the Arizona Republic.
We wanted to show as quick as we put that stuff up, there was a smuggler to cut it down.
They show a photo where they say border agents apprehended more than 650 mostly Guatemalan migrants, including women and children in the span of two days near Yuma this week.
They say the arrivals of migrant families in the Yuma area have increased drastically over the past year after dipping down following President Donald Trump's inauguration.
Adriants here apprehended 2,625 family members in October.
That's the largest number of single-month apprehensions since the government began tracking the data in 2013, according to statistics from Customs and Border Protection.
Brian Stelter says, CNN's John Avalon reported on New Day that the caravan was mentioned on Fox 733 times in the seven days preceding the election, and only 126 times in the seven days since.
The president was simply trying to stoke the fires of fear and anger to motivate his base before the election, Avalon said.
Meanwhile, many of the migrants are still walking toward the U.S.
border.
More than 6,000 people left their temporary shelter at a stadium in Mexico City and headed north on Saturday, according to Mexican state-run media.
A small group that broke off from the main group of migrants and traveled north by bus
arrived at the border earlier this week.
This became big news on Fox's talk shows, some of which ran new banners proclaiming
that the migrants moving north constitutes a crisis.
But it's no longer a lead story in most places, just as Obama predicted.
Just as Obama predicted.
Is that a rip on the press because they've decided to stop reporting on this simply because
Trump doesn't talk about it enough?
Trump enacted new asylum rules.
You can certainly report on it.
Fox News is still reporting on a bunch of these issues.
Local outlets in San Diego are reporting on this.
And even USA Today network outlets are also reporting on this.
I would say yes, the large national news is probably talking about this a lot less.
Fox News definitely still talks about it pretty much all the time as far as I can tell.
But just because the media isn't reporting it doesn't make it Trump's fault.
And just because Trump's priorities shift doesn't mean he was trying to do this to drum up support from his base over immigration issues.
I think it's a fair opinion.
Don't get me wrong.
I think it's fair to say Trump was probably doing this to generate support.
But I think it's interesting that so many people have this opinion like Trump doesn't actually care about the migrant issues.
I'm sure he did.
At the time, it was one of the biggest issues.
We kept hearing about more and more caravans coming across to make their way to the United States.
We heard about the violence.
We heard about the Mexican interior minister saying that some of them were armed.
So sure.
But just because Trump isn't talking about it, the press isn't covering it anymore, and somehow that's Trump's fault, look, These issues are real.
About a dozen or so, as I mentioned, were arrested.
Many people are breaking out into fights along the Mexican border.
So, would you call it a crisis?
I think absolutely.
It is fair to call this a crisis.
There is a large group of people who want to come to the United States who are rejecting Mexican asylum.
Some of them are getting into fights with Mexican residents.
Some are clashing at the Mexican border.
Whether or not you want to call this a national security crisis, you can certainly call it a humanitarian crisis, as there are many families, women and children who need shelter and aid.
So yes, it is a crisis.
It's fascinating to me that CNN's stance on this is simply, it's Trump's fault, Trump's not talking about it, therefore the press isn't talking about it, and that they criticize Fox News for saying it's a crisis.
Yes, we get it, CNN.
You're partisan, you're woke, and you disagree with Trump.
The story is not going to go away, I assure you.
These caravans are still making their way up to the border, and right now, it's a small group that's engaging in violence with the local residents.
It was a small group that tried to illegally enter.
But as we can see from what happened in Arizona, with this very large group of families who were recently arrested, most of them Guatemalan, It's fair to say that when this caravan does arrive, I'm sure many of them will try to illegally enter the country, more violence between the young men and residents will likely break out, and thus, we have a serious crisis.
Why the press doesn't want to report on it?
Don't ask me.
If all the press wants to do is follow Trump's every word, then you go ahead and play the Trump game where Trump plays the press like a fiddle, and then get mad at him when he changes the subject.
But I think it's entirely ridiculous.
So let me know what you think in the comments below.
We'll keep the conversation going.
Would you say this is a crisis?
How do you feel about the criticism from CNN?
Trump isn't talking about this that much.
Do you think he was just trying to jump up support from his base?
Again, comment below.
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