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Anonymous ID: dda2da Nov. 8, 2018, 3:55 p.m. No.3806922   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Tokyo headlines

Central American migrants in Mexico want buses to U.S. border to avoid dangers

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/09/world/social-issues-world/central-american-migrants-mexico-want-buses-u-s-border-avoid-dangers/

 

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MEXICO CITY – Central American migrants in a caravan that has stopped in Mexico City demanded buses Thursday to take them to the U.S. border, saying it is too cold and dangerous to continue walking and hitchhiking.

 

Mexico City authorities say that of the 4,841 registered migrants receiving shelter in a sports complex, 1,726 are under the age of 18, including 310 children under 5.

 

“We need buses to continue traveling,” said Milton Benitez, a caravan coordinator. Benitez noted that It would be colder in northern Mexico and it wasn’t safe for the migrants to continue along highways, where drug cartels frequently operate.

 

He said the route and departure time would be decided at a meeting Thursday night.

 

The Mexican government has said most of the migrants have refused offers to stay in Mexico, and only a small number have agreed to return to their home countries. About 85 percent of the migrants are from Honduras, while others are from the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

 

“California is the longest route but is the best border, while Texas is the closest but the worst” border, said Jose Luis Fuentes of the National Lawyers Guild to gathered migrants.

Anonymous ID: dda2da Nov. 8, 2018, 4:13 p.m. No.3807205   🗄️.is 🔗kun

These guys are just unfairly bagging on POTUS.

important to see what is being projected though with the ubiquitous "Staff Writer" tagline

 

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/08/world/politics-diplomacy-world/in-case-you-missed-it-trumps-awkward-response-to-a-japanese-reporter/

 

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s combative relationship with the media was on full display Wednesday as he shouted and ranted at reporters in a news conference that led to the suspension of a CNN reporter.

 

At the presser Trump’s exchanges with CNN’s Jim Acosta and NBC News’ Peter Alexander turned bitterly personal, and he ordered a reporter from the American Urban Radio Networks to sit down when she tried to ask him a question about voter suppression, claiming she had interrupted another reporter.

 

Trump made several references in his news conference to how he feels mistreated by the press. Overshadowed by that ruckus was his exchange with a Japanese reporter, whose question Trump brusquely dismissed as incomprehensible due to his accent — prompting both criticism and sympathy from those watching the scene unfold.

 

The reporter asked, “Mr. President, can you tell us how you focus on the economic …”

 

Interrupting him, Trump asked the reporter where he is from. He had not identified himself before speaking, but the Nippon News Network (NNN), owned by Nippon Television, confirmed to The Japan Times on Thursday that he was a producer based in its Washington bureau.

 

At the reporter’s mention of Japan, Trump responded curtly, “Say hello to Shinzo,” referring to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — arguably his best friend among world leaders.

 

Trump went on to say he was sure Abe is “happy about tariffs on his cars.”

 

The reporter tried again, asking Trump: “How do you focus on the trade and economic issues with Japan? Will you ask Japan to do more?”

 

Trump, however, replied, “I really don’t understand you.”

 

When the reporter tried again, the president pounced on the only phrase he seemed to understand.

 

“Trade with Japan?” he said, going on to complain about how, despite Abe being a “very good friend” of his, Japan “does not treat the United States fairly on trade.”

 

The exchange aroused mixed emotions in those watching on social media.