Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

The Brownsville Herald dropped this steaming pile of delight under our noses this morning.

Border violence likely affecting migrants
BY SARA INÉS CALDERÓN

Okay, as an aside, does anybody other than me find it curious that "immigration" issues reporters seem to run about 90% Hispanic? Conflict of interest, anybody, Bueller? Bueller?

Now back to the show...

January 29, 2006 — A recent wave of violence against Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley has the potential to harm immigrants who pass through here.

I realize I'm pissin' in the wind here but, what about the Border Patrol agents? Yeah I don't think Sara Ines Calderon gives a rat's ass about them either. Moving on briskly now.

Officials say human smuggling has become ensnared with drug trafficking, making it a more dangerous, desperate and expensive game. This raises the stakes and makes the whole process more violent for everyone involved.“When millions of Mexicans crossing the border are perceived as enemies, they are going to try to respond to that situation,” said Ignacio Corona, professor of Mexican and Latin American Cultures at Ohio State University.

Game? This is a game to you Mz. Calderon? Not to me missy, and not to most right thinking Americans either.

Allow me to clarify something Mz. Calderon couldn't be bothered with. "Human smuggling" includes people being smuggled into this country, this land based on freedom and liberty, to be honest to god slaves. How about them apples? Trying to downplay that seems like the height of cappucino breathed weasely goodness. Cuz rich folks deserve slaves! I mean without Maria who how would I raise my children? Kiss my fat white hairy pizza eatin' butt, slave lover!

It's also utterly ridiculous to paint "migrants" and drug cartels as being fundamentally different. The only difference is a matter of scale. "Migrants" are little criminals, drug cartels are huge criminals. In many ways "migrants" scare me more, they are unraveling our society right before our eyes. Drug cartels merely feed the well defined addictions of a minority that haven't changed much in decades. Police agencies know how to deal with the cartels, if only we'd take the gloves off, but an invading force of people who feel they have a right to be here illegally?

Increased enforcement at the border — more Border Patrol agents for example — makes migrants more desperate, driving them to extreme measures or dangerous geography, according to Karl Eschbach, a demographer who studied the causes of migrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border in the early 1990s through 2003.“It would affect the ordinary labor migrant who attempts to come across, and I can’t imagine that it’s affecting them for the good,” Eschbach said. “As enforcement becomes more effective, there becomes a motivation to act in a desperate way.”

I've said it before, I'll say it again. criminals never enjoy being busted for their bad deeds. So should we not enforce the border as these raving asshats would suggest? I mean I'd hate to inconvenience the ravening hordes of locusts who wish to sneak over the border. I hope you're catching this. These folks, in a round-about way, are suggesting we just give up on border control lest common criminals get hurt.

I have a news flash for these geniuses, sometimes criminals get hurt, nay, killed in the commission of their crimes. I have as much compassion for poor mexican folks as the most bleeding hearted open borders advocate. Where we differ is simply this, they would throw the doors open wide ignoring decades of evidence of the enormous toll illegal immigration has wrought in this country, I would ask Mexico to get it's act together. These poor folks we're talking about come from a country after all, why can't their country deal with this?

Anf finally, the truth will out...

Some call this trend “increased militarization” of the border, which Corona said is bound to increase violence. A stronger militarized presence at the border makes smugglers, and by extension immigrants, more desperate, a perfect recipe for violence.“Forces are going to be opposed, and they are going to provoke some kind of response, some kind of retaliation,” he said. “If you don’t have a weapon, you are going to use a stone.”

Thank you mr. Corona. It's about time one of you egghead idiots acknowledged what's really going on here. Yes, I agree, I think these criminals will respond violently when denied their booty. I think as well they will become more desperate as Americans deny them the abused largesse they have enjoyed for far too long.

This is a war of attrition, unfortunately at this point the good guys are losing. Much like Joel Stien's recent column stating for the record that he didn't support the troops, this article spills the beans. It is nothing more than a thinly veiled threat. They are suggesting if we have the temerity to ask immigrants to come through legal channels mass violence and uprisings will occur. Since I have been saying this for years color me unsurprised.

Yes, dealing tardily with the long ignored problem of illegal immigration will be tough, make no mistake. But we Americans excel at solving tough problems.

Y'all should be a bit more careful who you threaten, we Americans also excel at kicking ass when necessary!

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