Independent journalist Sara Carter traveled to Guatemala this month to see what’s happening on the other end of the catastrophe that has suddenly showed up on our southern border with its hand out.
Carter rolled into a town called Santa Rosa de Lima in Guatemala. It was pretty much a ghost town. 60 percent of the people are just gone.
She found a furniture repair shop on main street; it had two guys sitting out front with a sewing machine, and no customers. Music was blaring from a nearby café – but there were no café employees and no customers.
Aside from the stray dogs that now outnumber humans, the only people left in Santa Rosa de Lima are the ones who are too old or too sick to make the journey to our southern border. Everyone who was healthy enough ponied up thousands of dollars to the drug cartels to traffic them across our southern border.
Witnesses near the border say the cartels are now shooting any civilians who attempt to cross on their own. You pay the cartel’s fee to get across, or you ain’t getting across.
No one even knows how many villages like Santa Rosa de Lima have been gutted similarly. We do know that 1% of Guatemala’s entire population has showed up at our southern border in the past four months, as well as 1% of Honduras’.
The villagers remaining in Guatemala say that pretty girls and young women who pay the cartel fees just disappear. They’re never heard from again, and they don’t end up at our southern border. We can all guess the unspeakable outcome.
Now that the cartels have emptied the villages of paying customers, new criminals who are even worse are showing up. These new thieves offer to traffic the villagers to America for just $400 – a steal compared to the $11,000 demanded by the cartels. The thieves then take the money from the poorest Guatemalans of all and ditch them in the desert with no food or water.
How in the world do poor jungle villagers from Guatemala pay $11,000 per person to the cartels, you may be wondering? The cartels only require half up front. The other half has to be worked off, probably with interest that would make a loan shark blush. This means that the cartels are now operating on US soil to extort additional money from the illegal aliens that they are shepherding into your neighborhood.
If these new arrivals are not in your neighborhood yet, they soon will be. Illegal alien apprehensions are up 400 percent at every border crossing. The Guatemalans, Hondurans, Mexicans and Wherever-ans from around the world want to be caught. They get free stuff that way! Medical checkups, blankets, some grub. It beats working at the furniture repair shop in Santa Rosa de Lima.
The Border Patrol has been caught dumping hundreds of illegal aliens at interior bus stops this past week. The Border Patrol in California dumped hundreds of illegals at the San Bernardino Greyhound station without warning on Wednesday. There are too many in custody to keep any more.
Are they even bothering to process them and set an immigration hearing court date? Who knows? Not that they would show up for the court date anyway, but now the Border Patrol is so overwhelmed that they can’t even go through the motions.
Reuters talked to one of the illegals in San Bernardino. He left Guatemala on April 25. On May 20, he was in San Bernardino after spending only six days in custody. He hopped on a bus for Arkansas, where he has a bunch of illegal alien relatives waiting to take him in.
Speaking from painful personal experience, landlords are receiving 250 phone calls every day in California towns right now, as soon as they post a rental unit on Craigslist. Infinite immigration and finite housing units are not a good combination for any community.
Here are the highest priorities for the United States Congress as all of this is going on: Trump’s tax returns. Vladimir Putin. Impeachment. White nationalism. Global warming. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to raise the smoking age to 21.
Yes, that’s literally his highest priority for 2019.
Meanwhile, the southern border is wide open, America is becoming Guatemala and Guatemala is becoming empty. You get to pay for all of this and if you dare to complain, well, you already know what our impotent elites will say about you.
