In the States social movements are rather civil disobidience days and they seem to me to be disconnected. For example, next video shows what is now a big issue there, the problem of illegal inmigration mainly from Mexico. Reactions from institutions and general public are in general violent but at different degrees. While Police in California reacts with violence against demonstrators, in Arizona the minutemen chase inmigrants. For example the following video shows how policemen attact protestors and journalists alike.
At different level, some people use excuses to fight inmigrants and hence somehow hide their racism. For example, also in youtube there are a series of videos that supposedly fight the trafiking of Mexican girls to the states to then force them into a sex slavery life.
In reality, however, what this people does is to chase inmigrants and accuse them to the police of being some sort of pims.
What I believe happened during the shooting of the videos was that the girl desperately tryied to force the two inmigrants to implicate themselves which is patetic. On the other hand, not even the police bought her story.
What made me suspicius is the statement in her youtube profile which says "Opposition to illigal immigration is opposition to lawlessness and the ghettoization of Ameraican life as symbolised by child prostitution,... "
It made me question,... are mexican illegal immigrants the one causing the problem of poverty and all related issues the United States suffers from? My straight answer is NO, their govenrment and their institutional arragemenent are the ones not doing enough to offer good employment opportunities and stop their poverty and social issues. So why then this lady blame on Mexicans for that?????
the videos are these:
After watching all the videos and making comments on them I received a message from 'girldefense' saying that she had deleted my comments. So I reply back and the following is her last message,...
again, i believe in the totality of the circumstances as well as in context the videos show it all. in regards to giving a view of human trafficking/forced prostitution/child prostitution, they only show what everyone knows already. children are abducted at a high rate in mexico and many are forced into prostitution. someone in law enforcement told me that 35 were abducted in sinaloa once and were nearly tracked to vista itself and then they disappeared. the reeds raid in 2001 revealed girls as young as 9 years old being prostituted in oceanside in the san luis rey river. these things continue because the border isn't being controlled.
my record stands for itself in regards to seeking to reveal the exploitation of women and children and seeking victims. i think if i went back to why i started i think it starts with the horror of thing since the girls are exactly like my students in all respects. i don't present mexican people in any negative way. perhaps i portray particular people in a negative way because they know what is going on and refuse to act by omission or their own acts to cover it up. i'm not paranoid. i live in an immigrant culture everyday in the city and more.
ghettoization is my word and i don't feel bad for using it because if you allow child labor, child prostitution, breaking of laws when it is convenient many things give way. the people are poor but we can't take all poor of the world and they can't expect their poverty to be an excuse for everything. i support amnesty. i'm against guest worker programs. i used to say why does gil cedillo push for drivers licenses when he should be demanding the whole thing - legalization. i'm for a very liberal amnesty combined with true border enforcement. i'm against the iraq war because it proves what a hoax W really is. he talks about fighting terror but the border is left open.
i'm against any restriction of services to illegal immigrants. yes, i'm against illegal immigration but i look at it pragmatically in human terms. there are legal terms to see things but their are human terms. leaving the border open is leaving a rape/murder/mayhem zone open, while saying no to amnesty leaves a large number of people outside the system.
lastly, i'm not pretending. i'm just doing my duty. the girls do deserve our empathy regardless of who they are and what has already happened to them. this is just youtube - my record stands firmly.