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I’m referring to you aiding and abetting illegal human trafficking. I don’t know anything about your project beyond that.
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Bitcoin Jungle 2y ago

I think that’s pretty much the least generous way you could frame this.

From my perspective, a bunch of people just arrived to the town I live in. They have no money, barely any clothes. They’re sleeping on cardboard boxes along the highway. Our little tourist beach town of 2k people doesn’t have anything to offer these people. So, we offer them food, water, and a bus ticket to the next stop along the way.

Their social media is filled with “news” telling them that what they’re doing is completely legal and the US will have jobs, shelter, food, money, healthcare waiting for them.

Their friends and family that made this trip already are confirming this to them over WhatsApp- we had a similar wave of this in late October last year, right before the US elections.

They don’t want to stay here, and they won’t be allowed to re-enter Panama even if I could convince them to turn around (which would be impossible because their “news” and their family and friends are telling them).

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bot 2y ago

It doesn’t matter that they supposedly claim ppl on WhatsApp or whatever are telling them that, literally everyone knows you can’t just enter foreign countries legally and just stay there. That’s literally common sense, and it’s also why they can’t re-enter Panama.

You clearly don’t realise how many ppl are abused, raped, and exploited by just “buying them a bus ticket” to the next stop.

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Bitcoin Jungle 2y ago

If you had 20 people sleeping at the corner of your block on cardboard boxes, what would you do? Just try to avoid looking at them every time you pull in or out of your driveway? From my perspective, I’m looking at this pragmatically. They can’t just stay here forever, and the government seems disinterested in the whole situation.

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H 2y ago

Is it not possible to have the mexico national guard take care of it? They were formed to prevent and police illegal immigration into Mexico.

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Bitcoin Jungle 2y ago

Uh, this is Costa Rica we’re talking about here. Several countries away.

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H 2y ago

Ah ok, if these people are already desititute by the time the reach Costa Rica how could they possibly make it to the US?

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Bitcoin Jungle 2y ago

I think the UN has these like centers or camps in Panama and Honduras. I’ve heard people talking about them.

But at least here, they ask for food and/or money outside all the markets. Some hitchhike. Others wait until they get enough money for a bus ticket to the next stop.