US-Mexico
border: 72 dead, 12 in past week
The NY
Times reports today that 12 people died in the last week trying to
cross the Arizona border. I don’t give a fuck what you think of immigration
or population controls because none of that matters to the families of
those 12 people.
Sean Hannity near
the border, promoting fuckers who are taking it into their own hands to
make it harder for people to travel safely to make a living.
From the
Minutemen Project: "This woman created the
angel as a gift to the Minuteman Project for their patriotic efforts
in protecting
our border. She is well-known for creating similar angels for the
9/11 site. "
source
New
York Times Somewhere in the scorching expanse of the Sonoran
Desert, two people in Mr. Jacinto's group, ages 15 and 17, died
before his eyes, he said. Mr. Jacinto recalled that he fainted
of dehydration
three times.
"I
couldn't walk any more," he said in Spanish, as a ceiling fan
struggled to shake the overbearing heat above him. "And my eyes
got foggy. I couldn't see. But I'm better now."
Mr. Jacinto, a
father of three children back home, could be considered fortunate.
The Border Patrol knows of 12 immigrants who died in the last week
as the desert temperatures ran as high as 115 degrees, and their
deaths could be a harbinger of a summer of similar fatalities.
source
There have already been
72 deaths since October, despite claims by the Border Patrol to “mitigate” these
deaths. I don’t give a fuck what you think of immigration or population
controls because none of that matters to the families of those 72 people.
Here is the thing: We
are not “Americans.” We are people. And the 72 dead are not “un-Americans.” They
too are people.
You are a stupid piece
of shit for a human if you think that the nation you live in comes before
being human. And it is shame that there are so many stupid pieces of shit
out there.
If 72 white “Americans” had
died because of a government policy to force people to take the most dangerous
route to get to work, there would be an outrage. Well, fuck everyone not
in outrage. Fuck them.
I’m serious. There
is only one reasonable position: No one should be forced to take the most
dangerous route, to be put in the position of dying. A humane government
would go out of its way to prevent any deaths. Period.
And this is what I mean
my pansy progressives: Progressives not willing to take a moral stand on
issues like this.
Bottom line is that the
people crossing into America to work are coming here because we want them
to. We want to exploit them. A few dying on the way over actually makes it
that much easier to exploit those who make it. Who would be crazy enough
to call attention to themselves, or to their working conditions, if it meant
they’d be sent back to the desert to face dying?
Right now there are thousands
of people trying to make a living. And we let them come in to do labor for
our economy. But we do everything we can to screw them over. This amounts
to slavery (which still exists, in fact, in America – source). It is
evil and wrong. And liberals should oppose it on moral grounds. Period.
This Memorial Day my memories
go out to the hundreds who died trying to get into America to become part
of my community.
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