November 21, 2005
Throwing Bad Laws After Bad Laws
According to a weepy article in today's Washington Times, migrant women are frequently being raped as they attempt to cross the border between Mexico and the US, sometimes by the very men they have paid to protect them on their journey.
"The women, according to U.S. law-enforcement authorities, have no realistic recourse, because they are foreigners seeking to enter the United States illegally. Separated from other illegals just south of the border, the smugglers take them into the desert where they are raped or sodomized.
"U.S. authorities said some Mexican border police have taken part in the violence, often targeting migrants headed to the United States from Central and South America.
"The rapes are part of what the U.S. Border Patrol said is a growing pattern of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border from California to Texas, including a rising number of assaults and robberies of illegals and a dramatic increase in attacks on Border Patrol agents and other law-enforcement personnel along the 1,940-mile border.
"The incidents of violence and the intensity of the attacks, the authorities said, continue despite an ongoing and expensive effort by the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the September 11 attacks to gain "operational control" of the border.
"Alien and drug smugglers -- many armed with automatic weapons, global-positioning units and night-vision scopes -- have become increasingly aggressive in protecting their illicit cargoes, the authorities said, adding that attacks on Border Patrol agents have risen fivefold in the past year."
This is the fault of
--the papist job-stealing wetbacks who are breaking our laws by entering our holy country
--the immoral people-traffickers who profiteer at the expense of these migrants
--the evil drug-smugglers who want to poison American babies and take over the country with their wacky tobacky
It is not the fault of
--the stupid laws that make it illegal for Mexicans to come to America as the market demands
--the existence of the border and the mafia that patrols it
--the illegality of the consumption and sale of certain substances and the militarization of the enforcement of such
In seriousness, the one thing the idiot anti-immigrationists and I agree on is that this is heavily the fault of the hideous states below the Rio Grande. But then, 3/4 are like that due in large part to US intervention over the last century. Really, I think the reason so many people blame America is that it's just so damn easy.