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Title: WHOA: WashPost Finds Mexicans Have Had Enough with These Caravans!
Post by: rangerrebew on April 09, 2019, 12:40:24 pm

WHOA: WashPost Finds Mexicans Have Had Enough with These Caravans!
By Curtis Houck | April 8, 2019 2:23 PM EDT

Chalk this one up to a blind squirrel finding a nut once in a while. Splashed across the front page (and above the fold) of Saturday’s Washington Post was a stunning piece that admitted many Mexicans are, like Americans on the other side of the U.S-Mexico border, “migrant-weary,” frustrated by the near-constant flow of illegal immigrants, exhausting resources, and overrunning shelters.

In their story “Threatened by Trump, exhausted by caravans, Mexico struggles with migrant surge,” Post reporters Maya Averbuch and Mary Beth Sheridan admitted that Mexicans were frustrated to see that “large caravans” were not “a one-off....phenomenon” but rather a constant flow of Central Americans straining resources.

To make matters look even worse, the two reporters even quoted a man from Mapastepc, Mexico who complained that the government was doing more to help illegal immigrants than their own citizens:
 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/04/08/whoa-washpost-finds-mexicans-have-had-enough-these-caravans (https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/04/08/whoa-washpost-finds-mexicans-have-had-enough-these-caravans)