The Take Our Border Back convoy heading to Texas expects at least 700,000 people to attend its events on February 3.
Convoy organizers left Virginia on Monday and stopped overnight in Florida, where they rallied to get more people to join their cause and organized to try to pressure the Biden administration to take action on border issues.
Photos taken by The Post on Tuesday morning show the painted pickup trucks and trucks that have joined the growing convoy in Jacksonville, Florida, as they prepared to drive through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana toward Quemado, Texas, near the security hotspot. Eagle Pass border.
Organizer Kim Yeater told the Post: “To the naysayers: we are just regular citizens, farmers, ranchers, retired police officers. Not crazy conspiracy theorists.
“It will be a peaceful assembly of Americans of all political classes and all ethnicities.
Organizers of the Take Our Border Back convoy left Virginia on Monday and stopped overnight in Florida, where they rallied to get more people to join their cause and organized to try to pressure the Biden administration to take action on issues. borders. AP organizer Kim Yeater told the Post: “To the naysayers: We are just ordinary citizens, farmers, ranchers, retired police officers. Not crazy conspiracy theorists. “It will be a peaceful assembly of Americans of all political classes and all ethnicities.” AP
“We have truckers, Canadian moms and dads. We have motorcycles. If people could bring horses, they would. I know the numbers we’re looking at are 700,000. “I think it will possibly be bigger than that.”
A second convoy leaves California for Yuma, Arizona, another area where migrants have steadily invaded the border and where for months people could simply walk through the open gates at Lukeville.
Yeater said the group is not against immigration to the United States, but argues that things have gotten out of control, with more than 2.4 million people encountered at the southern border in the last fiscal year according to the Department of Homeland Security, and a record 300,000 in December. only.
A second convoy leaves California for Yuma, Arizona, another area where migrants have steadily swarmed the border and for months were able to simply walk through the open gates at Lukeville. AP Yeater said the group is not against immigration to the United States, but argues that things have gotten out of control: More than 2.4 million people were encountered at the southern border last year, according to the Department of National Security, and a record 300,000 in December alone. . AP
And he added: “The great open doors [along the wall] They are everywhere. These were cut from the inside out. There are huge openings… That cannot secure our border. That has to be closed. We are about to take a joint stand to secure our borders.
“What’s really important is our goal, our mission is to draw attention to open borders and educate Americans about the imminent dangers to all Americans.
“What we are looking for is safe and legal immigration. Investigating the people who enter. I have moms [who will speak at the rallies on Saturday] Talking about kids who died from fentanyl. I have one whose son was murdered by an illegal immigrant who had crossed that border several times. She just left the cemetery yesterday, on the day that would have been her” birthday.
“What’s really important is our goal, our mission is to highlight open borders and educate Americans about the imminent dangers to all Americans,” Yeater said. AP
The mother, Anges Gibboney, will speak at the rally.
The convoy will not tolerate “infiltrators” or “disruptors,” saying those who act badly will be “handed over to the authorities,” according to Yeater.
He also reiterated that this was not a “political” event, saying: “This is not a right or left issue. It’s not. We are the little ones who just stand up and say ‘you have to protect our home.’ We put you in charge and now we hold them accountable.
“I have friends who are black, white, yellow. The entire Vietnamese community (supports us),” she continued. “Any hate speech, racist, white supremacist, disruptive, provocative, infiltrated, is not allowed.
“Anyone who is a three-letter agency or a federal government will have to show their credential to enter. All of that will be there. “Make sure everyone is safe and this will continue to be peaceful.”
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