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April 08, 2005
Border Issues
Last night I attended a panel discussion at Texas State University in San Marcos given by a group of writers who write about the Rio Grande Valley area. It was typical leftist university monolog with talk about how the area on the U.S. side of the border was "occupied Mexico", how terrible NAFTA and globalization are for Mexico, how much better off Mexicans were as poor farmers, how classcist Americans are, and how wonderful Mexican socialism is. It was interesting to see how the panelists assumed the leftism of their audience. No need to argue why these things are true, they are an accepted part of leftist faith. Of course there were no conservatives on the panel.
One of the panelists was Cecilia Balli who wrote about the border murders that occurred over the past few years for Texas Monthly (who was the one panelist fairly quiet about her politics). If you are unfamiliar with the story, there have been a large number of murders around the Texas/Mexico border over the past decade or so, with around 340 women murdered in the city of Juarez since 1993. The total number of women murdered may be much higher, but know one knows for sure. This reminded me of this story I had seen yesterday, with yet another journalist getting shot near the Mexican border. Three journalists were murdered last year near the border.
Also Brian Preston of the immigration blog links ot a story of how dangerous life on the U.S. side of the border is for typical working class families. Break ins, assault, trespassing, theft of livestock, etc. are a constant worry and unfortunately law enforcement officers offer little protection.
Posted by Pete at April 8, 2005 09:36 AM
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