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As migrant caravan heads to Tijuana, ‘all contingencies on the table’ as feds plan for worst
By Kristina Davis  and Kate Morrissey
Nov 10, 2018

With the main migrant caravan now apparently headed for Tijuana to claim asylum in the U.S., federal authorities in San Diego on Friday warned that nothing short of law and order will be tolerated.

A slew of contingency plans are being hammered out before the first wave of potentially thousands of migrants arrive — from the worst-case scenario of a complete shutdown of cross-border travel to using military troops to fortify fences to adding staffing to process a flood of asylum claims at ports of entry.

“We are going to be ready for them,” San Diego’s chief Border Patrol agent, Rodney Scott, told a large contingent of U.S. and Mexican reporters during a news conference Friday.

Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-caravan-contingencies-20181110-story.html

So, they are heading that way? Just an update, not sure if anyone posted.

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Caravan decides: It’s California or bust
Hot Air, Nov 10, 2018, Jazz Shaw

The main Honduran migrant caravan, still estimated to be roughly 4,000 strong, has been camped out in a sports stadium in Mexico City for the better part of a week now. That’s coming to an end this morning, however, as their patience has apparently been exhausted. Caravan leaders have gotten everyone together to decide their next move and, perhaps predictably, they’re heading north again. But rather than taking the shorter route toward Texas, they are opting for the longer and more dangerous route to the northwest, heading for Tijuana and presumably the Cruce Peatonal Hacia México border crossing near San Diego. (Associated Press)

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You can read a lot into this decision, depending on which version of the current spin you choose to believe. Currently, the migrants are roughly 600 miles from the closest border crossing at McAllen, Texas. That’s still a long march on foot, but if they can average 20 miles a day (no easy feat) they could arrive in approximately a month. But by choosing to try for Tijuana, they now have a 1,740-mile march ahead of them. Even under ideal conditions that would take almost three months unless they can find some sort of mass transportation option.


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The bulk of the caravan will follow the roughly 900 migrants who left Mexico City on Friday, and many were impatient to get going after having spent much of the week in the sports complex…

The migrants’ plan was to take a subway to the northern part of Mexico’s capital, then proceed first to the city of Queretaro, followed by Guadalajara, Culiacan and Hermosillo until the migrants arrive in Tijuana on the U.S. border, said Nashieli Ramirez, director of Mexico’s Human Rights Commission.

Ramirez said that 90 percent of the at least 4,000 migrants remaining in Mexico City would depart before dawn Saturday and that 400 had decided to stay in Mexico.

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Story could go in immigration, similar story already posted.

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As migrant caravan heads to Tijuana, ‘all contingencies on the table’ as feds plan for worst
By Kristina Davis  and Kate Morrissey
Nov 10, 2018

With the main migrant caravan now apparently headed for Tijuana to claim asylum in the U.S., federal authorities in San Diego on Friday warned that nothing short of law and order will be tolerated.

A slew of contingency plans are being hammered out before the first wave of potentially thousands of migrants arrive — from the worst-case scenario of a complete shutdown of cross-border travel to using military troops to fortify fences to adding staffing to process a flood of asylum claims at ports of entry.

“We are going to be ready for them,” San Diego’s chief Border Patrol agent, Rodney Scott, told a large contingent of U.S. and Mexican reporters during a news conference Friday.

Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-caravan-contingencies-20181110-story.html



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Gov elect Newsom should go to the boarder and welcome all his new constituents.
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Story could go in immigration, similar story already posted.


Respectfully disagree @TomSea   If this isn't national news/current events then I don't know what is.


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Respectfully disagree @TomSea   If this isn't national news/current events then I don't know what is.

Looks like you were over ruled.  Mods know best.  333cleo
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Looks like you were over ruled.  Mods know best.  333cleo

No, if you will look, it is in National News.