This is completely unacceptable. In the space of 5 minutes I just got two stories that truly make me wonder what the hell is happening to America.
First story: Apparently not content with harassing businesses and seizing peaceful, hardworking men and women that happen to be here illegally and unsatisfied with all the violence and crime we already have in America as a result of the War on Drugs, the U.S. government thinks it’s a great idea to import dangerous drug cartel members to serve as informers. And not tell the local government or police forces of the areas they get put.
gangland-style slaying is no big news across the river in Ciudad Juarez, the bloodiest city in Mexico, where more than 1,300 people have been killed this year and only a handful of cases have been solved, despite the presence of 10,000 soldiers and federal police officers as part of President Felipe Calderón’s war on drug cartels.But in El Paso, where local leaders boast how safe their city is and the 12 homicides this year have almost all been solved, the González slaying was as disturbing as it was sensational. For people here, the blood splashed on a pretty American street was a jarring sign that Mexico’s drug violence is spilling across the border into U.S. suburbia.
Most unsettling for many, especially El Paso police officials, was that both González and the man accused of ordering his killing turned out to be ranking drug traffickers from the notorious Juarez cartel, as well as informers for the U.S. government.
“So this is how these people end up in our country,” said El Paso police Lt. Alfred Lowe, the lead homicide detective and a 29-year veteran whose team made the arrests in the González case. “We bring them here.”
HT: Cato@Liberty
Second story: Did you know that not speaking English is grounds for the government to take away your baby? Neither did I, until 5 minutes ago, when I read this story.
Cirila Baltazar Cruz comes from the mountainous southern state of Oaxaca, a region of Mexico that makes Appalachia look affluent. To escape the destitution in her village of 1,500 mostly Chatino Indians, Baltazar Cruz, 34, migrated earlier this decade to the U.S., hoping to send money back to two children she’d left in her mother’s care. She found work at a Chinese restaurant on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.
But Baltazar Cruz speaks only Chatino, barely any Spanish and no English. Last November, she went to Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula, Miss., where she lives, to give birth to a baby girl, Rubí. According to documents obtained by the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, the hospital called the state Department of Human Services (DHS), which ruled that Baltazar Cruz was an unfit mother in part because her lack of English “placed her unborn child in danger and will place the baby in danger in the future.”
I don’t think I can possibly put into words how much this infuriates me. There is no possible logic by which a lack of capacity in English can be any real danger to the child – and a serious, grave, real threat to a child’s well-being is the only time when the government should ever even consider taking a child away from his or her parents.
Reading stories like this make me really, really want to know how my country could have ever gotten to such a point.
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apparently the united states doesn’t justify that we are all human beings. the untied states is built upon the migration of many which were not even born in the untied states. the undocumented serve a large part of the community, most of which are hard workers. the families come here for a better and brighter future, not to cause any harm and most are treated as if they were criminals when they have not commited any or little convictions. its appaulding how the government isn’t taking any actions.