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America has survived two world wars, a Civil War, and depressions but what waiters would call "three four-tops and an eight-top" poses a security risk to a city of a million? Get over it. If prostitution is the oldest profession, pimping fear is the oldest form of politics.... Read more»
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2 comments on this story
Why do today’s journalists want to be novelists? What has happened to hard-hitting, researched, news? The so-called facts in this article (novel) about the caravan participants are wrong. The vast majority of the migrants are young males, not families of mothers and children. The article is more intent on demeaning what the writer perceives as cowardly, red-neck, men who are clueless about poor migrants who only want a better ( handout) life in the U.S.
These caravans are not coincidental to the midterm elections. The money to just to feed, cloth, and transport these folks is staggering and must come from some group or person with deep pockets. Most of the migrants appear fairly healthy and wearing decent and in some cases nice clothes. Real refugees do not have plenty of food, water, shelter, or wear new jeans. The necessary calories needed to make a trek from Guatemala to the U.S. border are tremendous. Who is feeding the migrants, they can’t possibly have enough money to eat out every day? Give me a break, these caravans are nothing more than a cruel hoax on the migrants who are being used for political purposes.
It’s a column. It’s supposed to be an opinion. Men aren’t the majority according to reporters who are there. Even so, men aren’t gang members.