The Cabrini sisters in Guatemala are aiding the people in the caravan. On their Cabrini Mission Foundation website, an update posted on Oct. 17, a Scalabrini Sister rang the sisters community medical clinic in Guatemala City. They informed them that 1,500 immigrants had showed up at their local immigrants services center. These immigrants were looking for food and medical care.
What is the Immigrant Caravan
Many immigrants who leave their country for a better life, see the United States has their end goal. “The United States has been the top destination for Immigrants to travel to since the 1960’s.” Immigrant is defined as “ who chooses to resettle to another country.”
The immigrant caravan was initiated in San Pedro Sula during the week of Oct. 15. These immigrants who are traveling on feet, are coming from Honduras through Guatemala and heading towards Mexico and then the United States. The estimated number of people traveling has gone from 200 to 4,000.
These Honduran immigrants are looking for a new life due to “low wages, unemployment and poor public services in Honduras.” Many are wanting to start over in the United States whiles some intend on stopping once they get into Mexico.
Even though some who are still 900 miles away, Trump is preparing now to ensure no one gets across.
Cabrini’s Involvement
Many of them, in family units, were carrying as many belongings as they could, majority just clothes. A plethora of children were dehydrated and sick from illnesses that they caught along the way traveling. The director of dispensario in San Juan and the sisters came together as they gathered clothes and blankets for families. After supplies and medical attention was met, the sisters offered prayers.
An update posted on their website on Oct. 25, says, the majority have continued on their journey and successfully crossing the border into Mexico. They now are sheltering about 130 people down from the original 1,500. Those who are still there are due to family members being too sick to continue on right now.
If you would like to donate to Cabrini Missions Foundation to help supports the efforts being made, you can donate at https://cabrinifoundation.org/donate/
The president’s view
President Trump has a strong view on those wanting to come into the United States. He sees this as an issue of national security, claiming “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in.” The topic of immigration has always been a stubborn factor for Trump and his administration.
Just in this past 2017, the number of those trying to cross the border illegally dropped to a 40 year low. But just this past September of 2018, the number rose again but this time with “record setting number” with those traveling in families.
A big part of Trump’s election campaign was focused on immigration laws. On Monday Oct. 29, President Trump is sending 5,200 troops to the southern border and will be there by approximately Friday to stop migrants from crossing the U.S. border. The Pentagon will also be sending “medical units, command posts, military police units, aircraft capabilities and helicopters
equipped with sensors for at night.”
On Tuesday, Oct. 30, President Trump said in an interview that we would end the the right to citizenship to children of those who are non-citizens or unauthorized that were born on U.S soil. This would affect the Constitution that states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
Stats
- Immigrants today account for 13.5% of the U.S. population
- Most immigrants (76%) are in the country legally
- Mexico is the top origin country of the U.S. immigrant population
- Since the creation of the federal Refugee Resettlement Program in 1980, about 3 million refugees have been resettled in the U.S
- Roughly half (46%) of the nation’s 43.7 million immigrants live in just three states: California (24%), Texas (11%) and New York (10%)
- Around 344,000 immigrants were deported from the U.S. in fiscal 2016
More information can be found at http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/14/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/
All these millions of unhappy people have the same goal. They want the U.S. to help them because their homes have been overwhelmed by crime, corruption and poverty. Because the people are suffering, they believe the U.S. owes them safe harbor.
Here’s another view. The U.S. lost 33,686 of its young men and women to assist South Korea in combating similar despotism. The democrats howled at the cruelty and that war never ended. We lost 47,424 in Vietnam for the same reason and the flower children howled again. For the same reason, we lost 1,833 in Afghanistan and the democrats (grown up flower children) continued to howl. Even today, from time to time, they howl about all three of those terrible times.
The only difference between those three major armed conflicts and the current illegal alien hostility is they were fought on the dictator’s homeland. Modern illegal aliens would violate U.S. laws and bring their troubles to our own homeland. It’s ridiculous to think we can solve “northern triangle” struggles by importing millions of innocent people. They must stand and fight at home, as we’re now doing.