Am I going to have to start a new category—Invasion of South America—similar to our much advanced ‘Invasion of Europe’ series?
This is just a short news item initially from the Latin America Herald Tribune but published here in a Somali publication.
BOGOTA – Colombian police detained 37 undocumented immigrants from Cuba, Somalia, Ghana and India in Nariño province on the border with Ecuador, officials said Friday.
The immigrants, who had entered the country over the border, were detained in two groups, the first at a police checkpoint on the Pan-American Highway, and the second at a bus terminal in Pasto, the provincial capital, according to a communique issued by Colombia Migration.
Among the 37 detained were 13 Cubans, 9 Ghanaians, 8 Somalis and 7 Indians, all of whom received food and medical care.
After their detention, all were deported across the Rumichaca International Bridge between Colombia and Ecuador.
This group looks like they may have been working their way northward to Central America (on toward the US?).
Maybe these Somalis heard about ‘Welcoming Wilmington’ and were headed there!
In recent days we told you about Uruguay and Brazil.
BTW, We are taking ‘refugees’ from Colombia. According to statistics at the Refugee Processing Center we admitted to the US 277 “refugees” from Colombia in the first 4 months of this fiscal year. Colombia is the only South American country we take refugees from at the present time. Who are they?
Editor’s note: If you have a look at the map I just directed you to, you might initially be confused. This is a map of “processing countries” so it tells us nothing about the nationalities of those processed there. For example, note that Somalia is not a processing country however, we have received 3,536 Somali ‘refugees’ in the US in the last 4 months alone (at the nationality map).