The Take Our Border Back convoy heading to Texas expects at least 700,000 people to attend their event on February 3rd.
Organizers of the convoy left Virginia Monday and stopped overnight in Florida where they rallied for more people to join their cause and organize to try and push the Biden administration to take action on the border issue.
Pictures taken by The Post Tuesday morning show painted vans and trucks that have joined the growing convoy in Jacksonville, Florida, as they prepare to head through Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana to Quemado, Texas, near the border security hotspot Eagle Pass.
Organizer Kim Yeater told The Post: “To the naysayers: We’re just ordinary people, farmers, ranchers, retired police. Not a crazy conspiracy theorist.
“It will be a peaceful gathering of Americans from all political classes and all ethnicities.
Organizers of the Take Our Border Back convoy left Virginia Monday and stopped overnight in Florida where they rallied for more people to join their cause and organize to try and push the Biden administration to take action on the border issue. AP organizer Kim Yeater told The Post: “To the naysayers: We’re just regular people, farmers, ranchers, retired police officers. Not a crazy conspiracy theorist. It will be a peaceful gathering of Americans of all political classes and all ethnicities.” AP
“We have Canadian truck drivers, mothers and fathers. We have a motorcycle. If people could bring horses they would bring horses. I know the number we’re looking at is 700,000. I think it might be bigger than that.”
The second convoy will leave California for Yuma, Arizona – another area where migrants have consistently beaten the border, and where for months people have been able to walk through the open floodgates in Lukeville.
Yeater said the group is not opposed to immigration to the US, but thinks the situation has gotten out of hand, with more than 2.4 million people found at the Southern border last fiscal year according to the Department of Homeland Security, and a record 300,000 in December alone.
The second convoy will leave from California for Yuma, Arizona – another area where migrants have consistently beaten the border, and for months have been able to walk through the open flood gates at Lukeville. AP Yeater said the group does not oppose immigration to the US, but thinks the situation has gotten out of hand, with more than 2.4 million people found at the Southern border last year, according to the Department of Homeland Security, and a record 300,000 in December alone. AP
He added: “It’s a huge open door [along the wall] are everywhere. This is cut from the inside out. There is a large opening … That cannot secure our borders. That must be closed. We will take a united stand to secure our borders.
“What’s really important is that our goal, our mission is to highlight the focus on open borders and educate the American people about the dangers that will befall all Americans.
“We are all about security, law, immigration. By checking the people who come. I have a mother [who will speak at the rallies on Saturday] talking about children dying from fentanyl. I have one whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant who had crossed the border multiple times. He just left the cemetery yesterday, on his birthday.”
“What’s really important is that our goal, our mission is to highlight the focus on open borders and educate the American people about the dangers that will befall all Americans,” Yeater said. AP
The mother, Anges Gibboney, will address the gathering.
The convoy will not tolerate “infiltrators” or “disruptors,” saying those who act will be “handed over to the authorities,” according to Yeater.
He also reiterated it was not a “political” event, saying: “It’s not a right or left issue. It’s not. We’re the little guys who just stood up and said ‘you’ve got to protect our house’. We put you in charge and now we’re in charge to them.
“I have friends who are black, white, yellow. The Vietnamese community fully (supports us),” he continued. “Any hate speech, any racism, any white supremacy, troublemakers, provocations, infiltrators are all not allowed.
“Anyone who is a three-letter agency or government authorized person will need to show their badge to enter. All that will be there. Making sure everyone is safe and this will stay safe.”
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