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Cartel violence in Mexico is real — that’s exactly why we need asylum
The Hill ^ | 03/19/2024 | MARY KATHERINE MORN

Posted on 03/19/2024 11:27:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Alabama Sen. Katie Britt spawned headlines this month for telling a flagrantly misleading anecdote about sex trafficking during the GOP response to President Biden’s State of the Union address.

The way she politicized and misrepresented the context and timeline of the story presented was immoral, exploitative and wrong. But the hard truth is that kidnapping, violence and sexual exploitation remain a reality at the border — and in reality, Britt is among a legion of conservative voices whose anti-asylum policy stances would make the situation far worse. While the media has focused on her factual distortions, they haven’t yet fully delved into the hypocrisy that her policy positions represent in contrast to her remarks.

Right now, Mexican human rights observers are still seeking justice for people seeking asylum who have been massacred and consigned to mass graves while passing through the country — many at the hands of Mexico’s powerful organized crime rings. These experts estimate that as many as 100,000 people have disappeared and remain missing in Mexico, in many cases due to gang-related conflict.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: asylum; cartel; crime; mexico; violence
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Mary is a complete idiot
1 posted on 03/19/2024 11:27:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Bringing cartels here could solve the cartel violence problem in Mexico.

Because they will all be here doing it here instead.


2 posted on 03/19/2024 11:29:09 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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No, that’s why Mexican citizens need to deal with their country’s problems (such as cartels) before running away to El Norte for unlimited free stuff. But they won’t.


3 posted on 03/19/2024 11:29:44 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Uncontrolled invasion of our border, is exactly one reason why the cartels/ control of Mexico is real.

There — fixed it..


4 posted on 03/19/2024 11:30:11 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill may as well be Media Matters.


5 posted on 03/19/2024 11:30:16 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Cartel violence in Mexico is real — that’s exactly why we need asylum to close the border.
6 posted on 03/19/2024 11:31:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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If every country embraced a MGA policy the world would be a much better place.
7 posted on 03/19/2024 11:31:52 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Hmmm. The HTML interpreter deleted my annotation.

It should read,

If every country embraced M[Your Country]GA…


8 posted on 03/19/2024 11:33:55 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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The cartels are slave traders and they don't want their product returned for any reason. All slave sales are final.

America needs to be ashamed, but Tyson Foods has to combat increasing production costs on the plantations somehow!?

When this goes sideways its catastrophic in scale. Millions will die merely traveling or assembling. Starvation, de-banking, surveillance data, is gonna gitchya.

9 posted on 03/19/2024 11:34:53 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Sorry, the best we can do is drone the heck out of cartels and crooked Mexican government officials. Will that help?


10 posted on 03/19/2024 11:36:59 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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Half the countries in the world have the same problem. Does that mean we have to accept everyone from those countries too? Let these countries clean themselves up.

Her argument is ridiculous.


11 posted on 03/19/2024 11:37:50 AM PDT by Signalman
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Princess Mary needs to set up an “asylum” program at her house and America needs to fire up the military to go down and kick the Mexican’s asses. AMERICA IS A SOVEREIGN NATION, NOT A FRIGGIN REFUGEE CAMP FOR IDIOTS SEEKING THE AMERICAN DREAM FREE STUFF FOREVER “ASYLUM” Program. Only morons would destroy their own nation by taken in every coward in the world who is too yellow to fight for their own country. As communist, Marxist and socialist sh*tholes around the world crumble, they are sending their garbage to America. This is a kick in the teeth of the American people.


12 posted on 03/19/2024 11:38:15 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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To: jacknhoo

The Hill is more like MAD Magazine.


13 posted on 03/19/2024 11:40:37 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mary is why men wanted to keep women out of politics and the problems of the world.


14 posted on 03/19/2024 11:40:52 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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These are the same people who were cheerleaders for quarantining healthy people and ‘lockdowns’.

Think about it.


15 posted on 03/19/2024 11:42:48 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I suspect there’s an O missing in her last name.


16 posted on 03/19/2024 11:43:19 AM PDT by MortMan (No matter where you go, there you are!)
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Yup, she’s a moron.


17 posted on 03/19/2024 11:43:57 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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Hey Mary Moron: As cartel violence becomes more prevalent in the United States, where are we going to apply for asylum?


18 posted on 03/19/2024 11:45:39 AM PDT by Enterprise
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Well-stated.


19 posted on 03/19/2024 11:47:25 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just what we need.
A Unitarian Universalist squish from the church of the Great Wishy Wash telling the rest of the nation that we have a Christian obligation to do this.
Well, Mary, once I filter the pagan-Buddhist-animist-indigenous religiosity that you espouse out of the equation, I’m left with the knowledge that you don’t know your elbow from your donkey (is that an ass?).


20 posted on 03/19/2024 11:47:31 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Nihil, sine deo)
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