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Guatemala Asks for U.S. Amnesty for Its 700,000-Plus Migrants

Wednesday, 11 November 2020, 10:15 MJA Uncategorized 21

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Guatemala’s government is asking the U.S. government to let roughly 700,000 Guatemalan migrants stay in the United States because of massive flooding that has killed 150 people in the poor country.

Reuters reported Guatemala’s plan to ask for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for its migrants. If granted, the status would allow Guatemala’s illegal migrants to stay and work in the United States, regardless of the high unemployment and low wages among many unskilled Americans:

“The foreign ministry will, over the course of the week, send the papers to our ambassador in Washington, who will make the request to the U.S. government,” [Guatemalan President Alejandro] Giammattei told reporters.

“We don’t know if President Trump will accept or not but we believe that it is our obligation to request it.”

Guatemala’s government knows that Trump opposes the TPS program and has ordered the cancellation of TPS for hundreds of thousands of migrants who have stayed in the United States for almost two decades. more

21 Comments on Guatemala Asks for U.S. Amnesty for Its 700,000-Plus Migrants

  2. I wonder if it ever occurs to these countries, that have so many of their people migrating here, to just fix their own problems and make their countries a place people don’t want to run away from?

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  8. There needs to be a fast track to citizenship, put these people on the tax rolls. Also if they are working under sh!tty conditions they can complain without fear of deportation.
    Many are good workers, they should have a chance.
    They also send mass amounts of money back to relatives and the corrupt governments prosper.
    Immigrants In The U.S. Sent Over $148 Billion To Their Home Countries In 2017
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/04/08/immigrants-in-the-u-s-sent-over-148-billion-to-their-home-countries-in-2017-infographic/?sh=7828de9f11f6

    America could build 13 walls, for that amount.
    $11 Billion And Counting: Trump’s Border Wall Would Be The World’s Most Costly
    https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797319968/-11-billion-and-counting-trumps-border-wall-would-be-the-world-s-most-costly

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  18. Is no other more local country able to help them?

    Maybe one not flooding perhaps.

    When I ask for refugee status, I will only accept it from a country with a much higher standard of living a great distance away from my home that I plan on returning to as soon as the waters recede. Haha jk.

    700,000??? Was that how many were going to come through Mexico before the election but got turned back?

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  19. I’m not up on immigration law, so I have to ask: is any country in the world that suffers flooding, free to send “refugees” to the U.S.? This is really concerning, because isn’t China suffering massive flooding right now?

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  21. Cmn¢¢guy and all those like you
    Y’all can go fcku yourselves !!!!
    Obviously you got NO FRGN idea just
    how much damage these fkn infiltrators
    have caused American Citizens. Leftists
    and Libertarians who scream “Lower costs
    benefit erbody, maaaaannnnn …”

    It’s the beginning of the Leftist INCREMENTALISM.
    It’s EXACTLY precisely, honestly, called the
    Redistribution of the Wealth of a JOB

    Quite obviously YOUVE never had to
    COMPETE FOR LOWER WAGES,
    which is just what American Citizens
    have had to do for some 40 fkn years.
    CITIZENS DON’T OWE NOBODY NOTHING.

    Illegal aliens cost Citizens $ 1 TRILLION in the
    last 7 and 1/2 years for their FREE health care
    and FREE school for their kids

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