Asylum seekers demanding $50,000 a pop are not asylum seekers

Published December 12, 2018 7:59pm ET



The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Gustavo Solis has an excellent article on the new scheme by which a group of migrants in Tijuana are attempting to enter the U.S. They are offering America a choice, but it’s not a good choice for the U.S.

Led by one Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa, these 100 individuals went to the U.S. consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday with a letter demanding “that the Trump Administration pay them $50,000 each or allow them into the U.S.” This is justified, Ulloa says, because “it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.” Solis reports the “letter criticized American intervention in Central America. They gave the U.S. Consulate 72 hours to respond.”

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