Anti-immigrant protests at the US southern border
- February 4, 2024
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Hundreds of people they showed up in at least two locations along the border between the United States and Mexico as part of a simultaneous mobilization announced conservative
Hundreds of people they showed up in at least two locations along the border between the United States and Mexico as part of a simultaneous mobilization announced conservative anti-immigration group undocumented and President Joe Biden’s policies to curb the entry of foreigners.
The group Take Back Our Border, which has more than 1,600 supporters on Telegram, has called on the so-called “Army of God” to demonstrate in California and Texas.
At least 500 people took part in this Saturday protest near San Isidro Border Port (California), a few kilometers from Mexico.
Basically they came to concentration supporters of former President Donald Trump waving American flags and messages of support for the Republican running for a second term.
“Our country is experiencing an invasion” of migrants, he said EFE Republican CeCe Truman is a Latino candidate for the U.S. Congress in the 25th District on the border of California’s Imperial Valley, east of San Diego.
“Although the Border Patrol reports 10 million encounters with illegal immigrants at the border, in reality that number easily doubles because we know the same number” of migrants pass through the border without being apprehended, said Truman, one of the keynote speakers. at the meeting.
Those attending the event, which was heavily guarded, came primarily from Southern California, but the contingent included residents from across the country.
Some waved Texas state flags.
At the same time, pro-immigrant activists held a demonstration at the pedestrian entrance to San Isidro, where they spoke out in favor of migration and proposed constitutional reforms to ease it.
The activists arrived at the border in a caravan that left Los Angeles.
said participant Lydia, who chose not to give her last name. EFE that “the real problem we see at the border, which is causing a humanitarian crisis, is the military-style control method by which our country insists on controlling migration when in fact it knows that has never worked.”
In Texas, the call for a “Let’s Take Back Our Border” group began last night as a convoy of cars arrived from Virginia to a ranch in the border town of Quemado, just under 20 miles from Eagle Pass, which has gained national prominence in recent years and months due to… for measures taken by Gov. Greg Abbott to take control of a public park and install buoys in the Rio Grande.
About 1,500 people gathered in Quemado this Saturday to send a message “of the obvious dangers posed by the southern border… curb and ultimately stop the drug and human trafficking associated with ‘open borders’ and call for immediate action,” – the group said in a statement. .
As in California, protesters in Texas carried clothing, flags and messages against Biden and in support of Trump and Gov. Abbott, who plans to hold a news conference this Sunday in Eagle Pass to defend the thrust of his measures.
No incidents were reported at any of the demonstrations this Saturday.
A group of Democratic lawmakers warned of their concerns about violence that could result from anti-immigrant caravans.
“There are Republican officials who are spreading dangerous rhetoric about immigration,” said Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat.
“The invasion rhetoric from Trump and his allies is dangerous for Latinos and others,” he added.
For its part, the League of United Latin American Citizens (Lulac), the largest and oldest Latino advocacy group in the US, last Monday issued a national warning to border residents “in the face of armed extremists with a purpose to hate.” (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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