{"id":16787,"date":"2018-03-30T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16787"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:40:06","slug":"hondurans-broke-country-now-theyre-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/03\/30\/hondurans-broke-country-now-theyre-headed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hondurans Broke their Own Country, Now They\u2019re Headed Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buzzfeed<\/em><\/a> recently reported on a caravan of roughly 1,200 Hondurans, and other Central Americans, that is making their way across Mexico, toward the American border. Styling themselves as \u201cinternational workers,\u201d they have been organized by an organization known as Pueblos Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) \u201cinto security, food, and logistics committees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who exactly is Pueblos Sin Fronteras? For a public-issue group, its website is remarkably skimpy on meaningful information. However, it describes its goal as building \u201csolidarity bridges among peoples and [turning down]border walls imposed by greed.\u201d That would tend to indicate that it is a radical anti-capitalist<\/a>, open-borders<\/a> organization. As would the fact that the group advertises \u201crefugee caravans\u201d as if they were a form of political theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Its leadership seems to consist mainly of kooky extremists. A few examples: Alex Mensing, whose main claim to fame appears to be prior employment with a San Francisco company that makes novelty neckties<\/a> out of wood. And Gina Garibo, a self-described scholar of \u201cnecropolitics<\/a>,\u201d a pseudo-intellectual field that purports to study how societies dictate who may live and who must die.<\/p>\n

Those assisting the current caravan have characterized their efforts as, helping \u201cthe migrants empower themselves.\u201d And they have stated their hope that, \u201cthe sheer size of the crowd will give immigration authorities and criminals pause before trying to stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the approach sounds eerily familiar, that\u2019s because it is. The tactics being employed by Pueblos Sin Fronteras are exactly those preferred by devotees of<\/a> Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> The overall goal appears to be to, \u201cset up an enormous challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration policies and its ability to deal with an organized group of migrants numbering in the hundreds.\u201d In other words, create a media circus like the one that accompanied the massing of unaccompanied alien minors (UAM) along the southern border, which reached its peak in 2014.<\/p>\n

That seems a stretch. While the Border Patrol was challenged in certain locations by the UAM crisis, it didn\u2019t bring a halt to all border enforcement. Criminals who prey on illegal aliens may think twice about attacking a column of 1,200 people. However, dealing with several thousand border jumpers represents a relatively quiet morning in many Border Patrol sectors.<\/p>\n

Regardless of how effective its efforts turn out to be the Pueblos Sin Fronteras caravans demonstrate the extent to which the immigration debate has gone off the rails<\/a>. A group of American and Mexican citizens, masquerading as an aid organization, has deliberately set out to violate scads of both Mexican and American laws. And, to date, the United States doesn\u2019t appear to have lodged a single diplomatic protest<\/a> with the Mexican government over its utter failure to stop the mini-invasion.<\/p>\n

This is how American sovereignty<\/a> dies, not with a bang but a whimper.