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Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. Only, she didn't hear screams—she heard the laughter of male guards.
The women had been drugged by their rapists, who had done the same to Maria as soon as she walked into the house. They forced her to swallow a red liquid and handed her some white, chalky pills. She drank the liquid and tucked the pills on the side of her mouth, but they were slowly dissolving.
...Maria had arrived at the modest three-bedroom house in west Phoenix several days earlier in the back of a white van. She was one of about a dozen other immigrants who had hired coyotes to smuggle them into the United States: They each paid the human smugglers about $1,800 to guide them safely through the treacherous Arizona desert.
Their guides instead delivered them to other, more vicious coyotes. The kidnappers demanded another $1,700 apiece for Maria and the 12 others, including two young boys.
As you know, I have zero problems with the Arizona law, though I think that Joe Arpaio is a moron.
I'm tired of the guy. He's such a publicity hog.
This is why making it so difficult for poor people to immigrate is a bad idea.
Would it be wrong for me to suggest that he be kidnapped and exported to El Salvador?
Actually, it's not unlike those hardcore conservatives who pondered the likelihood that Obama would be assassinated during his presidency, almost gleefully.
I consider it a form of encouragement. It normalizes such behavior, and suggests that some lunatic has the right to throw a violent fiery temper tantrum because he got his widdle feewings huwt.
You may not have the balls to detonate the bomb, but inside your heart, you're applauding it.
Using your reasoning, the blacks who built churches in the South were just provoking the KKK to burn them down.
Right?
My, how soon we forget.
Yes, but I was joking.I get the sense that you actually WANT someone to firebomb that mosque. That's why you keep repeating the phrase.
But of course I'm a conservative, and in your mind that makes me evil.... right? So I had to be hoping for it, right?…. In a gleeful manner, right?
Not at all. It was your repeated mentioning of this as a reason why the mosque shouldn't be built.
This is why making it so difficult for poor people to immigrate is a bad idea.
You're so right, Asparagus. We should throw our borders open to any and all who want to come, and make sure we pay for their hospital stays and educate their children, as well.
That will totally solve this problem.
Of course, it will create a hundred million NEW problems, but what the hey?
They're not our people and not our problem.
This is why sneaking into foreign countries is a bad idea.
If anything, this story is proof that our efforts to restrict immigration are necessary.
You're so right, Asparagus. We should throw our borders open to any and all who want to come, and make sure we pay for their hospital stays and educate their children, as well.
Do they simply shrug and continue living in poverty? No, they sneak in.
They're making the same fundamental error that you seem to be. The reason we won't give them visas is because we don't want them.
1. Unlawfully present after previous immigration violations – 100% denial
2. Drug abuser or addict – 100%
3. Labor certification – 97%
4. Smugglers – 92%
5. Ordered removed upon arrival – 84%
6. Crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT) – 83%
7. Misrepresentation – 79%
8. Unlawfully present 365 days or more (10-year bar) – 46%
9. Application does not comply with provisions of law or regulations – 34.1%
10. Public charge – 24%
I know that. Whether you or anyone else wants them is irrelevant to them. They want to come, and they will. By making it easier to come in legally, at least they have a chance of rising up instead of being a burden on taxpayers.
Top 10 reasons immigration visas are denied.
Top 10 Reasons Why Immigrants Get Visas Denied « Guru Immigration Law Blog
Works for me..... let's just open up the border for everyone. No Visas, no rules, come one come all.
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I don't think open boarders was being promoted as a legitimate solution here. Sure, it's the pipe dream; not functional but would be great if it were. We can't have open boarders for many reasons and we need to regulate in some degree our immigration. Yet at the same accord as it relates to the OP, we shouldn't allow the abject dehumanization of immigrants, legal or illegal, or dismiss the abuse some of them suffer. Not so long ago some really rich couple from the East Coast got caught with essentially slaves. It's a big business. Contacts in other countries tell people of ways to get jobs in America. They bring them over, but don't give them any of their papers or sometimes don't submit them. The people pay these guys money, they bring them over, they get set up with some job. But are told that they can't leave the house and that the owners or these other dudes have their papers and because of it they can't go out without being arrested.
They in essence create a slave class and people are foolish enough to believe it (mostly because rules and authority are well different here than other places, so they just don't know). I doubt that was an isolated incident. Things like sex slaves happen a lot in the UK under very similar circumstances. Yes, we need to control our boarders. And yes, we have a right to control our immigration to allow assimilation time. But we shouldn't forget the humanity of other people just because they may be illegal. Maybe we have to ship them back; but we shouldn't ignore them if they face abuse of this magnitude such as what is outlined in the OP.
Draconian anything usually doesn't.
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