Posted on 06/21/2022 5:32:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The ongoing border crisis has transformed illegal immigration into an industrial-scale international smuggling black market.
MATAMOROS, Mexico — It’s easy to find gut-wrenching stories at the border. Ask almost any migrant you meet in northern Mexico and you’ll hear about the violence and hardships they endured to get as far as they have.
Alba Luz Perdomo, for example, fled Honduras with her husband and 13-year-old daughter after a gang killed her brother and threatened to kill them too. But that was just the beginning of their troubles.
They were forced to leave a farm where they had been working in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco by locals who told them foreigners weren’t welcome. In Monterrey, Perdomo’s daughter was nearly abducted by their landlord. They sought help from a man claiming to be a pastor in Matamoros, but who turned out to be a human trafficker and kept the family in his house for 20 days before they managed to escape.
Now they’re living in a migrant shelter in Matamoros, just across the river from Brownsville, Texas. But they’re afraid to leave the walled compound of the shelter because the local cartel keeps trying to recruit her husband. Perdomo says she doesn’t want to cross the border illegally, but doesn’t know what to do. “I’m asking God to do something,” she says, “because this is horrible.”
It’s impossible not to feel sympathy for this woman and her family. Their story is shockingly commonplace among migrants stuck in Mexican border towns like Matamoros and Reynosa, where I recently traveled with a pair of colleagues, Emily Jashinsky and David Agren, to better understand the ongoing border crisis. (Read part one of this series here.)
But too often, sympathetically conveying these stories — many of...
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The Leftist creation of our border crisis. Helping families. /s
Video - or it never happened.
btt
Their fault; they left home in Honduras. Should have stayed there.
Got that?
The Mexicans told them they weren’t welcome.
But if we say that to Mexicans here....we’re the bad guys.
How many times have people on this forum stated we had to
get illegal immigration under control, because it elevated
crime where it was allowed?
Now the cartel is being reported to be in control in the
area near the border.
Washington has known for decades that we were right.
Even if it did happen... this is my problem... how?
Even if it did happen... this is my problem... how
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Maybe cuz the Mexican cartels
are working with other cartels,, in
the Washington District of Cartels.
.the finest cartels laundered tax money can buy.
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