“Absolutely, yes, I would have done the same thing again,” the Red Hen owner said. “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”

HERE’S HOW MEXICO TREATS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
By Matt Palumbo

For those who think America’s immigration laws or treatment of illegal immigrants is uniquely awful, consider how the nation that sends us the most illegal immigrants treats people coming into their country:

• Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S. - The U.S. rejected 61.8% of asylum cases in 2017. Mexico rejected nearly 90% (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).

• Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race - Article 37 of Mexico’s “General Law of Population” says that foreigners may be denied entry into Mexico if they disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.”

• Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Income - Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re determined to be detrimental to “economic or national interests.”

• Mexico Deports More Illegal Immigrants from Central America than the United States - Even CNN had to acknowledge that: “Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.

• Mexico Detains More Unaccompanied Minors than the United States - From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.

• Mexico Routinely Deports People Without Regard for their Safety - A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”

• Mexico Stations Migration Agents, Local and Federal Police, and Soldiers and Marines Near its Southern Border - In 2014, Mexico began its Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan), a migration security plan in Chiapas state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents, police, and the military have formed a formidable deportation force. The Obama administration committed at least $100 million toward the plan.

Click here read my full article, and see the sources for these facts and figures: https://www.bongino.com/heres-how-mexico-treats-illegal-im…/

To arrive at the El Paraiso water-filling station in Caracas by sunrise, Rigoberto Sanchez wakes before 4 a.m. Hours later, his tanker is in a slow-moving line with a dozen others. Only two of the 10 pumps work and Sanchez will have time for a couple of deliveries if he’s lucky. If he’s luckier, the military won’t intercept him.

“They hijack our trucks, just like that,” said Sanchez, leaning on a rusty railing. “Once that happens, you’re in their hands, you have to drive the truck wherever they want you to.”’

Venezuela’s military has come to oversee the desperate and lucrative water trade as reservoirs empty, broken pipes flood neighborhoods and overwhelmed personnel walk out. Seven major access points in the capital of 5.5 million people are now run by soldiers or police, who also took total control of all public and private water trucks. Unofficially, soldiers direct where drivers deliver — and make them give away the goods at favored addresses.

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“The water sector has been completely taken because of a government that believes the military can grant order to things,” said Norberto Bausson, who was the head of Hidrocapital in the 1990s. “If on top of this institutional incompetence, you add a dry year, then the consequences are tremendous.”

Thus has necessity become a luxury in Venezuela.

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Theoretically, water in the socialist nation is subsidized, costing pennies a month. But the pipes in Caracas haven’t been renewed in three decades and Bausson said that repair crews have dwindled to about 40 from 400 back when he was in charge. Most pumps that bring water from reservoirs outside Caracas are only partly working. Two auxiliary dams, meant to guarantee supply for 15 days in emergencies, are critically low or empty.

Hidrocapital sometimes entirely cuts service for as long as 48 hours. Most people in Caracas get 30 minutes of water mornings and nights, igniting a mad rush to leave work or social gatherings to shower, wash and clean.

An unpublished report from the Caritas charity, which serves the poorest areas in four states, found that in April only 27 percent of families had continuous access to safe water from state supplies. About 65 percent had access less than three days a week. In Miranda state, no poor families at all had water more often that.

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