Trump sold foreign policy to the PRC for less than $20K. https://t.co/hBnMdg0KZR pic.twitter.com/jtvEr4MclF
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022
Because he didn't think it was going to be that serious, except sometimes. pic.twitter.com/d4DLPsc0qX
— Yas We Can (@Yastreblyansky) November 15, 2022
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| Bringing takeout from Ciudad Acuña to the family in Del Rio. Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images via The Guardian. |
Has anyone actually looked into this? https://t.co/JqYTGaTcn0
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) September 24, 2021
From article: "And so this is a community that, you know, operates through word of mouth. So people started saying, hey, Ciudad Acuña is open. This port is open."
— 1984_brien (@1984_brien) September 24, 2021
That's according to Politifact. This is an international matter and as such would seem that much of the US IC can analyze what went on here and in other situations where refuge movements are encouraged.
— 1984_brien (@1984_brien) September 24, 2021
It wasn't exactly sudden. They were on the way, mostly concentrated in Panama, in July 2020. Something like what would have been called a "caravan" six or seven years ago https://t.co/CizuiHXIue
— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) September 25, 2021
Obviously the fact that Trump was being replaced by a less racist and anti-immigrant president encouraged more people to join in from January 2021 onward, but the movement was already happening.
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| Photo via Veterans Administration website We Are the Mighty. |
Reaction from a veteran border agent: “It will make patrolling extremely difficult, along with security. This is insane. The agents did nothing wrong. It makes me furious. Horses have been used since before the official founding of the Border Patrol.” https://t.co/FsFPyZRHNC
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) September 23, 2021
I know now what unconscious process made me look up the official founding of
the Border Patrol when I saw that tweet, not because I already knew about it,
but because I didn't know about it and wondered why—I've often dipped into the
history of immigration and immigration enforcement on the blog, and you'd
think I would have heard of how the Border Patrol got started.
The main reason I hadn't heard about it, as it turns out, was that it happened at the same time as everything else, in 1924, during the Coolidge administration, when they passed the first general immigration law in the form of the National Origins Act; before that, the Mexican border was essentially open, Mexican and US citizens going back and forth across the border freely, unhindered except by customs agents collecting import duties on both sides.