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Immigration Horror Stories: How Do You Say ‘Rape Culture’ in Spanish?

Posted on | March 31, 2014 | 13 Comments

Smugglers who don’t respect U.S. borders and U.S. laws also don’t respect the basic humanity of their Mexican victims:

Faced with the prospect that they may be raped by their guides — also called ‘coyotes’ — or fellow travelers as they cross border and travel through the desert, women crossing illegally into the United States have turned to birth control injections to avoid becoming pregnant by their rapist.
Writing for Fronteras, Jude Joffe-Block interviewed several women along the border who have recently tried to cross the border looking for work or to join their husbands, parents, or children already in the country.
Pharmacist Maria Jaime Peña explains that women often come to her asking the same question.
“What can I do in case I’m raped, and I don’t want to get pregnant?,” Peña repeated in Spanish. “What can I use?”
Peña advises getting an injection for 48 pesos — less than $4 — that protects women from pregnancy for a month and is available in Mexico without a prescription.
Sometimes, Peña explains, it is the coyotes who suggest their female clients go on birth control.
Maria Salinas, a 43-year-old who recently tried crossing with her 18-year-old daughter, stated that a guide offered her and other women birth control pills before they began their journey.
“Because the coyotes know what they are going to do in the middle of the desert,” she said in Spanish.
Salinas described how she fell behind during the trip and couldn’t keep up. One coyote volunteered to wait for her on the condition that she let him have sex with her daughter.
“If I gave him my daughter, then he’d wait for me,” Salinas said
When she refused, she was abandoned in the desert only to later be rescued and returned to Mexico by the Border Patrol.
“It’s awful,” Salinas said about illegally crossing the border as a woman. “I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”

Exactly why this is being publicized by a left-wing site like Raw Story, I’m not sure. The most obvious lesson would seem to be that illegal immigration fosters a dangerous condition of lawlessness. Illegal immigration is a crime, and the people who abet this activity are criminals. But I suppose liberals will blame America for this, the same  way they blame America for everything else.

 

Category: Crime, Immigration

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13 Responses to “Immigration Horror Stories: How Do You Say ‘Rape Culture’ in Spanish?”

  1. Political Rift » Immigration Horror Stories: How Do You Say ‘Rape Culture’ in Spanish?
    March 31st, 2014 @ 9:35 am

    […] Robert Stacy McCain Smugglers who don’t respect U.S. borders and U.S. laws also don’t respect the basic […]

  2. LigueDefJuifs
    March 31st, 2014 @ 9:48 am

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Immigration Horror Stories: How Do You Say ‘Rape Culture’ in Spanish? http://t.co/NTVvx06tkJ #TCOT

  3. Anamika
    March 31st, 2014 @ 9:55 am

    This is a classic anti-immigration speech at a Tea Party event (4 years ago? How we miss those days!)

  4. ‘Hundreds of Thousands of Deportable Aliens’ Released Under Obama Policy : The Other McCain
    March 31st, 2014 @ 10:21 am

    […] brutal lawlessness of the human traffickers who profit from illegal immigration, we ought to ask: How many women will be raped as a result of the Obama administration’s policy of […]

  5. PCachu
    March 31st, 2014 @ 10:42 am

    Of course it’s America’s fault. They’re just doing the rapes that Americans won’t do. Why do you hate hard-working brown people? You RAAAAACIST!

    …wait, let me check … one, two, three, four, five — good! Got the correct number of ‘A’s. And on the first try, too.

  6. joethefatman
    March 31st, 2014 @ 11:24 am

    It’s being published to “humanize and personalize” the story as prep for yet another amnesty push via the upcoming elections. The next part will probably be the hyper publicizing the “rape trees” that are said to be where the coyotes do their bragging. The rapes are also to be part of the conservative war on women meme used so effectively in the last election.

    There, I answered what I hope was a rhetorical question.

  7. MarkReardon
    March 31st, 2014 @ 12:15 pm

    This is published at Raw Story (and look around, probably at other left wing sights, seems to me I heard something similar on NPR) because we need to be enraged that these poor women are forced into these situations by EVIL Republicans who won’t HELP promote Immigration reform. #waronMexicanwomen.

  8. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    March 31st, 2014 @ 3:14 pm

    ¿Cómo se dice cultura de la violación?

  9. How to you say “child rape culture” in Delawarian? | Batshit Crazy News
    March 31st, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

    […] TOM raised this question about illegal Mexican immigration.  But I am going to pose the question right back to him.  Robert H. Richards IV pleads guilty to raping his own three year old daughter and gets no jail time?  Just probation? It you are a DuPont heir in Delaware, you are apparently judged by a very different standard than most people… […]

  10. ZZZZZZZZ
    March 31st, 2014 @ 3:43 pm

    zzzzzzzzzzz……..

  11. Rob Crawford
    March 31st, 2014 @ 8:11 pm

    “Coyotes” are slavers. Our inability to call things by their proper name is disgusting.

  12. robscottw
    March 31st, 2014 @ 8:21 pm

    This is of course an old story.
    And it is of no real interst to the left.
    They don’t care about the victims of their policies.
    Period.

  13. Kirby McCain
    March 31st, 2014 @ 8:40 pm

    Mexicans cross the border legally every day. Why are these people crossing illegally?