Donald Hank
They're still catching up to Laigle's Forum
By Donald Hank
As I have said before, the world is slowly catching up to Laigle's Forum.
I have written a fair amount about the hypocrisy of US policies that coddle Mexican illegal aliens and treat the corrupt Mexican government with exaggerated respect instead of standing up to it as it should.
It is therefore always gratifying to see at least the alternate media focusing on this hidden issue.
COPS magazine is the latest to show such courage, and I include the following link for those who do not regularly read Laigle's Forum, and for whom this COPS report will therefore seem like news:
http://www.examiner.com/public-safety-in-national/mexican-military-police-brutalize-illegal-aliens-from-central-america
Having been in the Peace Corps in El Salvador in the late 60s, I have come into contact with enough Central Americans to know that Mexican police are practically an arm of the cartel they purport to oppose, and Central Americans passing through their country fear them with good reason.
It is well known in the US Central American community that male illegal immigrants in Mexico are routinely robbed and female illegal immigrants are almost routinely raped by these defenders of law and order.
I have reported on this before and have posted a commentary on the condemnation of the Mexican authorities by the Mexican Diocese, which had the cojones to stand up and condemn them shortly after the massacre of over 70 immigrants:
http://laiglesforum.com/mexican-church-confirms-immigrant-abuse-by-authorities/1754.htm
Ironically, our government's coddling of Mexican "immigrants" and its refusal to confront the Mexican government over gross human rights abuses is perhaps the prime factor in the perpetuation of this abuse. Victims of abuse by Mexican authorities have no voice and in fact, feel betrayed by us. To state it plainly, the US government is the best friend of Mexican criminals and the most fearsome foe of law-abiding Mexicans and Central Americans.
Our open borders policy and tendency to want to grant amnesty to all Mexicans, regardless of any criminal past they may have is harming America to a great extent but Mexico and Central America even more.
The Mexican and Central American people desperately need a US government policy with guts — or as they say, cojones.
Instead, they get mush brains in Washington tripping all over each other to please the far left, and hence the criminal element, in the Mexican community, opening up our country to increasingly dangerous criminals, while encouraging the cartels in Mexico, even supplying them with guns.
Finally, let me point out that a recent online exchange I had with a group of libertarians (Sons of Liberty) and an opinion expressed by the chairman of the Utah LP ("there is not such thing as an illegal") demonstrate to me that libertarians are running with the progressives in this issue (and also in many others).
Ron Paul identifies with the libertarians and, sadly, he too apparently does not believe in protecting our borders and making immigrants present documents.
Conservatives must stand up and be different, even if it means standing alone at times. We are truly the only ones who insist that right is right and wrong is wrong, an insistence on absolutism that has held America together since the very beginning.
More on Libertarians:
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/probe-the-progressive-libertarians/
© Donald Hank
May 5, 2011
As I have said before, the world is slowly catching up to Laigle's Forum.
I have written a fair amount about the hypocrisy of US policies that coddle Mexican illegal aliens and treat the corrupt Mexican government with exaggerated respect instead of standing up to it as it should.
It is therefore always gratifying to see at least the alternate media focusing on this hidden issue.
COPS magazine is the latest to show such courage, and I include the following link for those who do not regularly read Laigle's Forum, and for whom this COPS report will therefore seem like news:
http://www.examiner.com/public-safety-in-national/mexican-military-police-brutalize-illegal-aliens-from-central-america
Having been in the Peace Corps in El Salvador in the late 60s, I have come into contact with enough Central Americans to know that Mexican police are practically an arm of the cartel they purport to oppose, and Central Americans passing through their country fear them with good reason.
It is well known in the US Central American community that male illegal immigrants in Mexico are routinely robbed and female illegal immigrants are almost routinely raped by these defenders of law and order.
I have reported on this before and have posted a commentary on the condemnation of the Mexican authorities by the Mexican Diocese, which had the cojones to stand up and condemn them shortly after the massacre of over 70 immigrants:
http://laiglesforum.com/mexican-church-confirms-immigrant-abuse-by-authorities/1754.htm
Ironically, our government's coddling of Mexican "immigrants" and its refusal to confront the Mexican government over gross human rights abuses is perhaps the prime factor in the perpetuation of this abuse. Victims of abuse by Mexican authorities have no voice and in fact, feel betrayed by us. To state it plainly, the US government is the best friend of Mexican criminals and the most fearsome foe of law-abiding Mexicans and Central Americans.
Our open borders policy and tendency to want to grant amnesty to all Mexicans, regardless of any criminal past they may have is harming America to a great extent but Mexico and Central America even more.
The Mexican and Central American people desperately need a US government policy with guts — or as they say, cojones.
Instead, they get mush brains in Washington tripping all over each other to please the far left, and hence the criminal element, in the Mexican community, opening up our country to increasingly dangerous criminals, while encouraging the cartels in Mexico, even supplying them with guns.
Finally, let me point out that a recent online exchange I had with a group of libertarians (Sons of Liberty) and an opinion expressed by the chairman of the Utah LP ("there is not such thing as an illegal") demonstrate to me that libertarians are running with the progressives in this issue (and also in many others).
Ron Paul identifies with the libertarians and, sadly, he too apparently does not believe in protecting our borders and making immigrants present documents.
Conservatives must stand up and be different, even if it means standing alone at times. We are truly the only ones who insist that right is right and wrong is wrong, an insistence on absolutism that has held America together since the very beginning.
More on Libertarians:
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/probe-the-progressive-libertarians/
© Donald Hank
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