Devastating Murders in Mexico Send One Clear Message: We Need That Wall
Devastating Murders in Mexico Send One Clear Message: We Need That Wall
December 26, 2017 at 9:20am
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Border between Nogales, Arizona, on the left, and Nogales, Sonora, on the right
As Mexico’s murder rate has tracked higher each year, so has the brutality of these heinous killings.
For instance, the bodies of six men were found last week hanging from public bridges in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, according to CNN.
“Four bodies were found in the municipality of Los Cabos, the other two near the state capital of La Paz,” CNN reported. “The bodies were found suspended from three bridges located near the two main international airports and the highways leading to the popular beach resort of Cabo San Lucas.”
Violence in Baja California Sur region has reportedly spiked in the past couple years due to territorial disputes between the major drug cartels.
However, violence across all of Mexico is up, with the nation having “registered its highest murder total since modern records began, according to official data,” according to a recent Reuters report.
And though “most of these homicides appeared to be targeted, criminal organization assassinations,” according to the State Department, which maintains a travel warning about Mexico, they still pose a major risk to American tourists.
“U.S. citizens have been the victims of violent crimes, including homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery in various Mexican states,” the department further points out.
Of course, every American has the right to avoid these risks by simply not traveling to Mexico. Case closed, right? Not exactly.
Eight years ago Newsweek warned that the violence in Mexico was “finally seeping across the border,” adding that Mexican cartels had “established a presence in 230 U.S. cities, including such remote places as Anchorage, Alaska, and Sheboygan, Wis.”
When President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for office two years ago, he bluntly addressed the concern.
“(T)hey’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems,” he said, referring to nations that do nothing to halt their citizens from illegally immigrating to the United States.
“They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”
While Trump caught a lot of flak for these remarks, he had a valid point. It’s true that plenty of quality people have immigrated to America the right way, but large masses have arrived here illegally.
And quite often, these law-breaking masses have imported crime into America — rapes, molestations and murder, to name a few.
This is why we need to secure the border and build the “big, beautiful” wall proposed by Trump. It won’t reduce the crime in Mexico or stop all illegals from making it into the states, but if it stops even one (if not 100), it’ll be a success nevertheless.
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