First there was that bridge at Del Rio, Texas, where 16,000 Haitians huddled in filth before the Border Patrol hustled them off to parts unknown. Then there was the “Gap” in Yuma, Arizona, where thousands more began pouring through, many of them bound for California. For illegal Haitian migrants intent on reaching the Golden State Promised Land, the only crossing point better would be one that abuts the state itself, namely Tijuana.
And so they are coming, around 200 Haitians every day for a total of 6,000 or more every month. Some say they would be content to remain in Mexico, if they could obtain hard-to-get work permits and other documents. While those documents were comparatively easy to come by five years ago, the Mexican government has become less willing to be what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador calls a “migrant camp.”
And there’s also the continuing lure of a life in California, where Governor Gavin Newsom this week went out of his way to welcome migrants as he celebrated Indigenous People’s Day (née Columbus Day). Newsom tweeted that he was honoring those “indigenous” people who came to California “from across the globe”(?) Since “indigenous” means native, we’re not sure what he meant by that. Does he think it means P.O.C.?
For more, see the Border Report and Breitbart News.