Hundreds of residents of the Mexican border city of Tijuana protested the thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived in the hope of starting a new life in the US. On Sunday, local residents waved Mexican flags, sang the national anthem and chanted 'Out! Out!' At one point, police formed a barrier between the Central American migrants and protesting locals. Protesters have called the migrant caravan an 'invasion' and are accusing the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana. They are concerned Mexican taxes might be spent to care for the group as they wait, possibly months, to apply for asylum in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/...exicans-protest-against-migrant-caravan-video
Some protesters said they had previously disagreed with Trump on issues — but not this one. Francis Belmontes, who brought his two children to the protest, said his seven-year-old daughter told him that some of the migrants were urinating outside of her school and asking for money. He said not all the migrants were mothers seeking a better life for their children, and he had seen young men with tattoos who he believed were gang members. He said he worried for his children’s safety.
“It’s chaos,” he said. “We’re sounding like Trump’s America here in Mexico.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/protesters-tijuana-mexico-want-migrant-caravan-leave-n937761
Now here's my favorite part:
Are American liberals now going to demonize Mexicans as 'white supremacists' and 'racists' for not wanting the migrant caravan in their country???
'We Don't Want You Here': Mexicans Protest Against Migrant Caravan
Now here's my favorite part:
Are American liberals now going to demonize Mexicans as 'white supremacists' and 'racists' for not wanting the migrant caravan in their country???
Violence breaks out as first group from migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana
Members of a migrant caravan currently in Mexico clashed with residents in Tijuana on Thursday night after residents demanded that the migrants leave public spaces and report to shelters.
Local officials called on migrants to obey local laws and regulations, adding that they could only provide assistance to the caravan if members followed guidelines.
“The message to the migrant population is very clear,” Francisco Rueda Gómez, secretary of government of Baja California, said in a statement according to USA Today. “We are providing them with humanitarian support, health care and food, however the need to take into consideration the rules of the shelters so they can coexist in harmony with the local population.”
Some members of the caravan likened local shelters to prisons, explaining that it was more comfortable for them to avoid the shelters entirely.
“For this reason — because this is oppression — we prefer to be in the streets, in the cold, rather than in a jail,” immigrant activist Irineo Mujica, who is working with the caravan, told the newspaper.
I have just watched a video of those "migrants" acting loudly and rudely in the streets of TJ. Some were even carrying flags of their countries, countries that they claim have no jobs for them and countries that are full of violent crime.
More Americans would have some sympathy for them if they conducted themselves in a HUMBLE and RESPECTFUL manner. Just walk quietly. No yelling. No placards. No foreign flags.
When they reach the American border, show respect to the American authorities. Do not demand anything. Quietly and docilely explain that they are requesting asylum in accordance with current American law. Do not threaten any illegal action, such as rushing the border or hopping over any fence.
Surely you don't think it's hard to find instances of folks wanting to have their cake and eat it too? Surely you aren't shocked that Mexicans do so every bit as much as Americans.
What's important to note is whether "we don't want you" is a state policy or a sentiment expressed by the public.
It makes sense that Mexicans/Mexico doesn't want a huge influx of low-skilled labor. It doesn't have enough low-skill jobs for the low-skill laborers it already has. That's a very different economic situation than we have in the US which has ample demand for low-skill labor but not enough people to fill those positions.
Economically:
- Producers produce whatever it is they do and, to be profitable, they need to do so at a given COGS, a portion of which is labor cost. To be profitable they need to buy labor at $X/hr, and that wage rate translates into their demand for labor at $X/hr.
- What products, thus firms and their profitability, are most sensitive to changes in wage rates? Products/sellers of goods that are elastically demanded. The more elastic the demand, the more sensitive the profits are to COGS increases. Why? Because as prices increase, buyers will purchase alternatives that either are absolutely lower in price and that provide enough utility, or that are comparably priced and provide more utility, or that are absolutely higher in price but also provide more utility. Who decides what utility any given good provides? The buyer.
No California is a sanctuary state and Texas is not and if you are riding in a bus or a truck the distance is much less important.Does anybody else consider it odd that this caravan was hundreds of miles south of Texas and took a big left turn of hundreds of miles to suddenly end up in Tijuana, walking right past open desert so they could climb a wall?
Does anybody else consider it odd that this caravan was hundreds of miles south of Texas and took a big left turn of hundreds of miles to suddenly end up in Tijuana, walking right past open desert so they could climb a wall?
No California is a sanctuary state and Texas is not and if you are riding in a bus or a truck the distance is much less important.
Does anybody else consider it odd that this caravan was hundreds of miles south of Texas and took a big left turn of hundreds of miles to suddenly end up in Tijuana, walking right past open desert so they could climb a wall?
Surely you don't think it's hard to find instances of folks wanting to have their cake and eat it too? Surely you aren't shocked that Mexicans do so every bit as much as Americans.
What's important to note is whether "we don't want you" is a state policy or a sentiment expressed by the public.
It makes sense that Mexicans/Mexico doesn't want a huge influx of low-skilled labor. It doesn't have enough low-skill jobs for the low-skill laborers it already has. That's a very different economic situation than we have in the US which has ample demand for low-skill labor but not enough people to fill those positions.
Economically:
- Producers produce whatever it is they do and, to be profitable, they need to do so at a given COGS, a portion of which is labor cost. To be profitable they need to buy labor at $X/hr, and that wage rate translates into their demand for labor at $X/hr.
- What products, thus firms and their profitability, are most sensitive to changes in wage rates? Products/sellers of goods that are elastically demanded. The more elastic the demand, the more sensitive the profits are to COGS increases. Why? Because as prices increase, buyers will purchase alternatives that either are absolutely lower in price and that provide enough utility, or that are comparably priced and provide more utility, or that are absolutely higher in price but also provide more utility. Who decides what utility any given good provides? The buyer.
CA was deemed far more likely than TX to roll out the welcome mat. CA has (world famous?) sanctuary cities and TX has added military re-enforcements to the border making the via CA route into the land of rainbows and unicorns the better bet.
BTW, these folks are not walking (except for press photo OPs).
CA was deemed far more likely than TX to roll out the welcome mat. CA has (world famous?) sanctuary cities and TX has added military re-enforcements to the border making the via CA route into the land of rainbows and unicorns the better bet.
BTW, these folks are not walking (except for press photo OPs).
Walking?
These people were bussed and trucked to Tijuana.
Walking?
These people were bussed and trucked to Tijuana.
Still what?I didn't say anything about walking. Reading is your friend.
Ok, correction, I did. Still....
Now here's my favorite part:
Are American liberals now going to demonize Mexicans as 'white supremacists' and 'racists' for not wanting the migrant caravan in their country???
Not sitting on the border fence mocking the border patrol would be a nice start.
If what you say is true, why are wages stagnant? Why are there 100s of applicants for every job?
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