Posted on 03/29/2023 5:36:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber
What kind of person lights a mattress on fire in a detention center full of people? And what kind of person blames America for the fiasco, which killed 38 people?
Media accounts are busy blaming everyone but the people who lit their own mattresses on fire for an immigration detention center fire that killed 38 people in Juarez, Mexico.
According to USAToday:
The fire broke out when migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze late Monday at the National Immigration Institute, a facility in Ciudad Juarez south of El Paso, Texas, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.
Authorities originally reported 40 dead, but later said some may have been counted twice in the confusion. Twenty-eight people were injured and were in “delicate-serious” condition, according to the National Immigration Institute.
The most recent reports blame the guards, who apparently walked away without freeing their charges as the unit burned. If so, yes, blameworthy indeed, assuming there were no union rules requiring that they not do that, nor government orders suggesting the same, nor impossible-to-surmount danger to themselves. The investigation will reveal the problem. Common sense holds that if they couldn't secure their charges during a fire, their only moral obligation would be to free them and let what happens happen. For whatever reason, they didn't and the result was terrible.
But there are other excusemakers whose excuses aren't so impressive.
Start with Joe Biden's U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, who was johnny-on-the-spot with the featureless cliche that the problem was the U.S. and its "broken" immigration system:
The fire serves as a "reminder to the governments of the region of the importance of fixing a broken migration system," said Ken Salazar, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, in a Twitter statement.
So his solution is to open the border...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What could go wrong?
I have to imagine that at least some of the inmates didn’t light anything on fire.
Poor souls.
What do you get when you elease inmates everytime a inmate lits up his mattress?
More inmates lighting fires.
Just the kind of well-reasoned, forward thinking, upstanding individuals we need to welcome into our Nation!
“Start with Joe Biden’s U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, who was johnny-on-the-spot with the featureless cliche that the problem was the U.S. and its “broken” immigration system:
The fire serves as a “reminder to the governments of the region of the importance of fixing a broken migration system,” said Ken Salazar, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, in a Twitter statement.”
Further proof that demonrats hate our country!
They hate you and want you dead.
The message couldn’t be that we need to secure our border and have an organized and limited immigration system so that only vetted and productive legal immigrants are allowed into our country! If we did such a thing, we wouldn’t have over-crowded holding centers. No! To the left, the answer is that we have a immigration system that just allows everyone to come across our border at will.
When the “left” demands “reasonable immigration reforms” they are speaking of amnesty for all that are here and all that come here in the future.
Huh? They set their mattresses on fire because they were afraid they'd be deported FROM Mexico??? That's reason to celebrate not protest.
Once you lock a person (or any creature) in a cage you are 100% responsible for them. Leaving those people to die like that is a mortal sin.
The success of The United States is not the reason for the failure of Mexico.
Mexico is a systemically corrupt nation that blames it’s problems on us.
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