Now, I don't intend this to be a discussion of what should be done with them or how to stop them. There is a question I have to ask though after watching a programme late last night on the police in Nogales. They were chasing illegals and the people traffickers. The officers were saying that the illegal immigants were treated horrendously, often left to die in the desert, kept in rooms packed with people with no food or water or toilet facilities. waiting for their families in Mexico to pay their 'ransom'. The women were usually sexually abused, the danger to these illegals was huge, in all it sounded horrible.
My question is then, are things so bad in Mexico that people are willing to go through all that just to reach the States where surely they won't be able to earn that much as illegals?
I didn't get to watch the end of the progamme having to go out before the end because of a disturbance with drunken squaddies having a disagreement lol but it did raise some questions among us on the way there. How bad does life have to be to make you risk all that and take all your money to get to a safe country?
It is true, Mexican's, Central American's and South Americans take horrible risks and face horrible atrocities. They risk abuses equally that to any period of history, slavery, inhumane conditions, torture, and more at the hands of their own countrymen-mainly. The smugglers, human and sex traffickers, kidnappers,slavers, drug cartels, thieves, etc. who mostly are from spanish speaking countries are the ones responsible for such misery and mistreatment. But, also the fault is with their governments who has greatly mistreated its people. It has adopted the philosophy of corruption, greed, bigotry, prejudice, and immorality for as long as history was recorded. It is the poor lot, and not the rich that suffer as such. The injustices of those poor and uneducated who are making the long perilous trek North suffer such atrocities at the hands of their own. Once in the US being arrested by US immigration are treated humane and just, in comparison. Amongst the poor there are too the criminal who run from justice, or see greater criminal opportunity in the US preying on their own people.
If you study the History of countries like Mexico on down, if you know the culture, the political government system, it is clear why these proud, poor and uneducated, down trodden, who people risk life and limb, as previously described, pay unrealistic amounts of money they don't have to get the US. Countries like Mexico must threat all their people fair and equally, there must not be divisions among their people. They must change their own culture, of corruption, greed and prejudice, valuing an educated and fair society. But, this has never been the history of those countries, and as such has given arise to many revolts and wars to try and balance the equation, and it is the cause of the rise in power of the drug cartels, and the blossoming of a new movement that welcomes Al-Qaeda. For centuries they have heard stories of the North (US) from other countrymen as being the promise land where money and opportunity are endless, laced with romanticism and absent of facts. That is why they leave their country. People don't risk their lives to flee paradise.
