100 Missing After Boat Sinks in Pacific

YahooNews/AP ^

[anymouse]

Immigrant traffickers often use Ecuador's coast as a launching point, frequently taking illegal aliens to Guatemala or Mexico, who then travel overland and cross the Rio Grande into the United States.

More victims of lax U.S. boarder security policy. :(

[BostonianRightist]

No big loss.

[squarebarb]

God rest their souls.

These people were lied to and tricked. If only they could come to see that changing their own corrupt countries is the solution.

[janetgreen]

Navas told Ecuadorean TV it was "a crime to have placed" so many Ecuadoreans in such a small boat, measuring no more than 65 feet in length.

Pure greed takes advantage of ignorance. If it was known throughout the third world that America would actually enforce its immigration laws, tragedies like this would happen less often.

[janetgreen]

ping

[Happy2BMe]

113 more souls lost in the illegal alien invasion.

. . and I lay this directly at the feet of the OBL . .

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Immigrant traffickers often use Ecuador's coast as a launching point, frequently taking illegal aliens to Guatemala or Mexico, who then travel overland and cross the Rio Grande into the United States.

[dennisw]

The mighty sea is doing what president Bush won't.

[DumpsterDiver]

The disaster highlighted the perilous journey that migrants seeking to escape poverty in their homeland undertake to reach the United States.

The migrants said that they had paid traffickers as much as $3,000 each as a down payment for the trip, with a promise to pay another $7,000 more upon completing the journey.

[cripplecreek]

If it weren't for the promise of easy access to the USA they might not throw away their life savings to risk death.

[Happy2BMe]

This is a tragic testimony that those causing all of this chaos really are not concerned about the victims at all.

They were illegal aliens being transported and smuggled into the United States.

I'll be looking for news releases with regrets to the families.

[gubamyster]

ping

[kenth]

Pretty callous.

[janetgreen]

The migrants said that they had paid traffickers as much as $3,000 each as a down payment for the trip, with a promise to pay another $7,000 more upon completing the journey.

If that's "poverty", I'm Elvis Presley.

[COEXERJ145]

But typical for most on this forum.

[Brooklyn Kid]

They're human beings!

[Chena]

God rest their souls. These people were lied to and tricked. If only they could come to see that changing their own corrupt countries is the solution.

Yes, God rest their soulds. Your compassionate response says much about you. I also agree with the rest of your post.

[WatchingInAmazement]

The disaster highlighted the perilous journey that migrants seeking to escape poverty in their homeland undertake to reach the United States.

For anyone who still doesn't get it, we have criminal regimes/countries so dangerous and oppressive in our back yard that their refugees are fleeing, risking life to escape. And where are they sending their surplus goods? Aren't you feeling just a little bit used yet?

[COEXERJ145]

They're human beings!

Not in his mind nor the minds of many on FR. Just look at the types of comments made on a daily basis by people of his mentality. "Turd world counties", comparing Mexicans to an infestation, and my personal favorite, saying the only solution to illegal immigration is "a bloody genocidal war".

[WatchingInAmazement]

"No big loss."

Wrong. It's a horrible loss of their life. Their life is as important as yours or mine. And they are more important than the chattel they are used as by their country and too many in our own.