By Steve Sailer
07/04/2017
From The New York Times:
Central Americans, ‘Scared of What’s Happening’ in U.S., Stay Put By KIRK SEMPLE JULY 3, 2017
CHOLOMA, Honduras — His bags were packed, and the smuggler was ready. If all went well, Eswin Josué Fuentes figured he and his 10-year-old daughter would slip into the United States within days.
Then, the night before he planned to leave, he had a phone conversation with a Honduran friend living illegally in New York. Under President Trump, the friend warned, the United States was no longer a place for undocumented migrants.
Shaken, Mr. Fuentes abruptly ditched his plans in May and decided to stay here in Honduras, despite its unrelenting violence and poverty. He even passed up the $12,000 in smuggler fees that his sister in the United States had lined up for the journey.
“I got scared of what’s happening there,” Mr. Fuentes said.
While some of Mr. Trump’s most ambitious plans to tighten the border are still a long way off, particularly his campaign pledge to build a massive wall, his hard-line approach to immigration already seems to have led to sharp declines in the flow of migrants from Central America bound for the United States.
From February through May, the number of undocumented immigrants stopped or caught along the southwest border of the United States fell 60 percent from the same period last year, according to United States Customs and Border Protection — evidence that far fewer migrants are heading north, officials on both sides of the border say. …
Migrant smugglers in Honduras say their business has dried up since Mr. Trump took office.
Remember when The New York Times went on and on for eight years about Barack Obama was the Deporter-in-Chief? Yet illiterate Hondurans could figure out better whose side Obama was on — Americans or foreigners? Funny how that worked …
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