Posted on 03/04/2019 10:34:07 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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It was the summer of 2014, and Melvin, a 36-year-old mother of three, had just completed the journey from her native Guatemala, crossing the Rio Grande on a raft before being led to the house in the Texas border city of McAllen.
For weeks in that locked room, the men she had paid to get her safely to the United States drugged her with pills and cocaine, refusing to let her out even to bathe. I think that since they put me in that room, they killed me, she said. They raped us so many times they didnt see us as human beings anymore.
On Americas southern border, migrant women and girls are the victims of sexual assaults that most often go unreported, uninvestigated and unprosecuted. Even as women around the world are speaking out against sexual misconduct, migrant women on the border live in the shadows of the #MeToo movement.
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President Trump has used the threat faced by migrant women to make his case for a border wall. One in three women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico, he said in January an estimate that appears to have originated from some limited surveys, one of them by Doctors Without Borders, of women traveling through Mexico.
But less understood is that the violence that befalls migrant women happens not just during the perilous journey through Mexico: Much of it happens after women reach the supposed safety of the United States.
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It’s hard to imagine that, by this time, the women are still ignorant of the price which will be demanded for their passage.
Therefore, we can assume that they ARE aware, willingly go with the men knowing what will demanded in exchange, and then afterwards complain about what they had to do.
And still more women will make the trip, knowing the cost.
Where are all the liberal champions of women’s rights?
“Much of it happens after women reach the supposed safety of the United States.”
I first heard rumors of this in high school in SoCal back in the late 60’s.
The school district included a barrio with a decrepit hotel that served as an illegal alien depot.
A Mexican student who lived there was talking matter of factly about some woman who was servicing all of the local vatos. Either it wasn’t voluntary or that’s how she was paying off her coyote fee.
“Family Values Don’t Stop At The Rio Grande” said one brainless Republican President who never cared about this part of the illegal immigrant impact on regular America as he pushed amnesty.
No clicks for NYT, ever.
But I’ll guarantee that word of this is not front page fare in Mexican & Central American newspapers.
Aw, who cares? Did they go to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton? No. Did they major in journalism? No. Were their rapists anyone famous? No. So, tell ‘em to put some ice on it. This is America, the land of opportunities./s
LOL
I know that wasn’t meant to be funny.
But it did make me laugh.
Absurd things that are true sometimes have that affect.
I was thinking the same thing. Don’t come.
The NYT finally discovers that illegals are abused?
For these poor women the End Times cannot come soon enough. Please God save us.
They should stay in their home countries.
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The world changes, rulers come and go, life goes on be it good or bad.
Just think of 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue. The natives
welcomed him ashore and today look were they are. Life will change
until the end of times. We need to do the best we can with our time
and hope eternity is a blessing.
[ You Have to Pay With Your Body: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border]
The human smugglers are just doing the jobs that Americans refuse to do. /Jorge
I know that if I go to certain countries the odds of getting kidnapped or murdered go way up.
So if they know this already why do they come? The answer, FREE STUFF!
Invent one. You could have a burgeoning career in Not-Law Enforcement.
If you knew that Jesus’ second coming is this Saturday; how will you live from tomorrow to Friday?
Yes, they should stay in their home country. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party lures these people here, giving them the assumption that they will be admitted and safe once they get here. As usual, the Democrats lie for their own political power.
Columbus was sent to find a route to the East Indies that avoided all the muzloids Ferdinand & Isabella had just ejected from Spain
If able I’d be up and about wishing all a great here after. But since we don’t know the question is moot.
So what does that have to do with what he found and the Indians?
I do that now.
After each transaction; the cashier will usually say, “Have a nice day!”
I then reply, “...and a GREAT forever!!”, hoping that may get them thinking.
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