mob rule
/ˌmäb ˈro͞ol/
noun
noun: mob rule

1. control of a political situation by those outside the conventional or lawful realm, typically involving violence and intimidation.
   

Sorry but I don't see where this, according to this definition found by googling the term, even applies to a "large group" of people wanting to enter this country.

(October 22, 2018 at 5:34 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: There is a group of Guadamalans and Hondurans that is headed through Mexico heading for the US border.

What should be done?


( note - only the Libertarian Party has an open borders plank in it' s platform).

You could follow our own laws and allow them to apply for asylum and then give each a fair hearing.

I guess that's the last thing republicunts want.  So much for "law and order" with those scumbags.

(October 22, 2018 at 7:09 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Kidding aside - let them in - or turn them back?

There' s upsides and down to both options.

I can't see letting them in - en mass. It would set a dangerous precidence - of " mob rule".

I also can't see turning them all back - human decency says you have to help those who will face death returning.

Turn them back.  Each and every one of them.  Rubber bullets, tent cities, chain link fences, pink jumpsuits, bread and water with moldy bologna (just like our own convicts get); until the prison bus gets back for the next load headed south. 

Build that wall and set up a DMZ mine field that N. Korea could admire from a distance.

I suppose to appear to give a shit, we could put in an immigration office every 100 miles or so in slight gaps in the wall.  Help a couple of asylum seekers fill out the fuckin paperwork and point them back from whence they came -- we will send you your test results within 90 days (give 'em time to hitchhike their way home).

Give 'em a link to this site:

https://hn.usembassy.gov/

 lurk moar.  ^^^^^

(October 22, 2018 at 8:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

(October 22, 2018 at 5:34 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: There is a group of Guadamalans and Hondurans that is headed through Mexico heading for the US border.

What should be done?


( note - only the Libertarian Party has an open borders plank in it' s platform).

You could follow our own laws and allow them to apply for asylum and then give each a fair hearing.

I guess that's the last thing republicunts want.  So much for "law and order" with those scumbags.

Radical!

Boru

This "convoy" is nothing new. Groups of humans migrating through Central America happen once a year or more. The only reason why we're talking about it now is because conservative are using it as a wedge issue and Trump is using it to puff up his feathers.

What happens to them this time will be nothing new, either. They'll be stopped by US Border Patrol if they're attempting to cross anywhere that's not a government crossing. I really don't get what the big deal is here. What we should be talking about is immigration reform. There were attempts at that but we've fallen so far behind, I don't think reform will happen in my lifetime.

-Teresa

(October 22, 2018 at 8:32 pm)Jane2d Wrote:

(October 22, 2018 at 7:09 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Kidding aside - let them in - or turn them back?

There' s upsides and down to both options.

I can't see letting them in - en mass. It would set a dangerous precidence - of " mob rule".

I also can't see turning them all back - human decency says you have to help those who will face death returning.

Turn them back.  Each and every one of them.  Rubber bullets, tent cities, chain link fences, pink jumpsuits, bread and water with moldy bologna (just like our own convicts get); until the prison bus gets back for the next load headed south. 

Build that wall and set up a DMZ mine field that N. Korea could admire from a distance.

I suppose to appear to give a shit, we could put in an immigration office every 100 miles or so in slight gaps in the wall.  Help a couple of asylum seekers fill out the fuckin paperwork and point them back from whence they came -- we will send you your test results within 90 days (give 'em time to hitchhike their way home).

Give 'em a link to this site:

https://hn.usembassy.gov/

 lurk moar.  ^^^^^

Careful. Your white privilege is showing.

This group of walking migrants is 1,500 miles away from the US-Mexico border. It takes days just to drive that distance and weeks or more to walk on two feet. Many will drop out, turn back or die before they get to the US-Mexico border. By then, the conservatives will have wrung out every last drop of fear and ignorance that they can before the mid-term elections, which are just a few weeks away - What a coincidence!!

I'm not afraid of this group. Are you?

I have a visceral fear of Trump and his minions going Handmaid's Tale. But I don't fear Silvia and Mario attempting to cross the US-Mexican border.

-Teresa

Racist shitheads are afraid of their own shadows.

Yeah.... there's an invasion of people who are coming to empty bedpans and pick lettuce... jobs that 'Murricans like the asshole above are just dying to take!

(October 22, 2018 at 9:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Racist shitheads are afraid of their own shadows.

Yeah.... there's an invasion of people who are coming to empty bedpans and pick lettuce... jobs that 'Murricans like the asshole above are just dying to take!

I was just thinking the same thing. Some likely will end up as migrant farmworkers here in California, picking the produce that's in our grocery stores. Still not scared.

-Teresa

Ya but according to the WLB they're all rapists. Even the wimmen and chilren.



Maybe someone should deport the FLOTUS and see how her cheating husband likes it.