Death in the Desert:
Do We Care?
Friday, May 19, 2006
By David Yeagley
There are horrible tales of suffering and death at the Mexican borders. Today the New York Times offers yet another appeal for human sympathy. "At Unforgiving Arizona-Mexico Border, Tide of Desperation Is Overwhelming" reads the headline. And here is the photograph to dramatize the story:
With a Border Patrol helicopter buzzing overhead, a Mexican father and son,
Raul and Samuel Calderon, tried to hide. After walking four days in desert heat,
they were captured by the Border Patrol in Arizona. Luis J. Jimenez for
The New York Times.
Well, in this case, there was no death, only a capture of the tresspassers. But there have been deaths. Many deaths. In 1999 it was reported that there were 254 deaths, from exposure, drowning, exhaustion, etc. In 2005 some 279 died. There are only two sources posting tallies: The federal government, and religious organizations. (No More Deaths, for example, is a Christian coalition that tried to aid and abet the tresspassers.) Indeed, there stories are rather heart-sickening, just the kind of enfermedad we get when we here stories about alcoholics, drug addicts, abused children, pedaphiles, serial killers, and Islamic murderers. And if we have any sympathy for the wandering Mexicans, why should it be any different then what we feel for the addict, the mentally ill, the abject abuser?
What's wrong with these people? Why are they taking such risks? Do they love America that much? They certainly don't act like it when they get here. They have no concept of what America is, or what what being American means. They are solipsistic romantics. They have no identity, and they don't care. They are desperados. They have no leader, no concept of themselves, and they are no good to anyone--least of all themselves. They act on some intuition of aggression, of racial unity, of grand social redemtion. They are in fantasy land, stubbornly clinging to archaic notions or reestablishment.
I ask again, Is it America they love? Or is it just Mexico they hate? Once in America, they proclaim their love for Mexico! They love neither Mexico nor America. They love some imaginary identity which is only in themselves. They are outcast. It is a foolish people, indeed.
And it is a more foolish government that sanctions all this. The American government is a culprit in this mass tresspassing trend. Washington has encouraged it. The NYT article is fairly balanced in information, but it is all arranged in such a way as to plead, in the classic bleeding heart liberal way, for the poor Mexicans. In fact, it is a story that appears to have been staged.
It uses as it's theme the story of Miguel Espindola and his wife and two small children (Karla, 6, and Miguelito, 7). They crossed the worst desert area along the border, with their backpacks, Gatoraid, and resentment toward the Mexican government and the American government. (The NYT reports that 464 immigrants died on this kind of desert journey last year.)
I for one don't believe this story of Miguel. I don't believe many of the 'liberal' stories. No reasonable man would attempt to take his wife and two small children "across the Sonora." That would be suicide. Or, do these Mexicans care that little about themselves and their "families?" Is life that meaningless to them? They certainly act like it. And they leave a trail of trash for miles. For this, we're supposed to have sympathy? They have become social varmints, of the most odious sort. A species of pests, bringing disease, depression, crime and violence with them. What a spectacle.
To illustrate the fabricated story of "poor wandering Mexicans in the
desert" at thepoint of death. Tsk, tsk. They probably came down
from East LA for a photo shoot.
And the liberals love it. They love to indulge their self-righteous sentiments (i.e., forcing others to deal with the misery they help cause). They love their fantasy world, where they are the good, loving "enforcers," and they dramatize human misery. It appears they love human misery. They love creating it, writing about it, and promoting it, while those who have respect for the human condition, and who value human life, are condemned as the bad guys, the evil oppressors. Now who is it that religiously advocates destruction of the unborn? Liberals are worse than confused. They are deluded tyrannists, sometimes with little disguise.
But the Mexicans are too mindless to realize what is happening to them. Their minds are on a very, very low level of comprehension. In America, then get some attention. They means something to them. But I don't believe they are so socially oppressed that they risk their lives. They are mentally depressed. Life means little to them. They are not valued, and they do not value themselves. To what do we attribute this low estate?
Failure of religion, failure of government, failure of love. That all happened in Mexico. America is toying with the residue of Mexican national failure, trying to make something of it. America has become a garbage service for the world. "Send us your trash," indeed. We'll recycle it, at taxpayers expense, at citizens' risk, and at patriots' sacrifice.
Yeah. We care. We care that our own government has betrayed us, and that if we rise up, all the law enforcement agencies will attack us, the citizens.
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