U.S. Lays Out Welcome Mat for Middle Eastern and Other "Extra-Continental" Migrants

[Judi Lynn]

by Todd Bensman
Creative Destruction Media
February 5, 2020

Originally published under the title "U.S. Lays Out Welcome Mat for Middle Eastern and "Extra-Continental" Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them: An Immigration Policy Disconnect."

TAPACHULA, Mexico – The matronly Mexican entrepreneur bustling to and fro in her seedy downtown restaurant is proud of the legacy embossed on the walls of her first eatery next door, but especially of the nickname – "Mama Africa" – that still has customers along a global underground railroad seeking her out when they hit town.

A tacked-up Eritrean dollar and a "Thank you Mama Africa" are among the inscribed memorabilia appreciating her cheap and often free food, floor space for sleeping, and reputed smuggling connections (a U.S.-Mexico operation recently netted a Bangladeshi human smuggler who Mama Africa said worked for her in the restaurant).

Names, nationalities, and dates of travel indisputably evidence a kind of U.S.-bound migration often denied in the United States among liberal no-borders activists but referred to among better-informed U.S. homeland security personnel as "extra-continentals" because their homelands span the globe. These are U.S. asylum hopefuls from Ethiopia, Somalia, Iran, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Nepal, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and many other bloody hotspots.

There are more Africans coming now than I have ever seen before," Mama Africa said in mid-January as her restaurant filled with Bangladeshis, Haitians, and Nepalese.

More:
https://www.meforum.org/60501/us-welcomes-extra-continental-migrants

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