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[South Texas]Finding the Lost: Thousands of immigrants trek through Brooks County; not all survive
The Monitor ^
| 08/20/2011
| Naxiely Lopez
Posted on 08/21/2011 9:31:35 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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It was 104 yesterday. Prayers up.
To: SwinneySwitch
Guy came all the way from Ecuador to die like a dog in the great fried empty. Pathetic. I blame Bush and Obama for encouraging this travesty.
To: SwinneySwitch
Need to get control of the border to stop it. Its the most effective way.
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posted on
08/21/2011 9:38:13 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin)
To: SwinneySwitch
And sealing off the border is supposed to be “cruel”.
Yeah, right.
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posted on
08/21/2011 9:39:09 AM PDT
by
Flintlock
(Photo ID for all voters--let our dead rest in peace.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Janet and Barry say that this isn’t happening and that our borders are more secure now than they ever have been.
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posted on
08/21/2011 9:41:31 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
To: hinckley buzzard; SwinneySwitch
Agree that this is on Bush's and Obama's conscience, and on anyone who participated by luring these vulnerable people here to begin with, by incentivizing fraud on a huge scale, by winking at waves of unlawful behavior and by dangling perverse incentives in front of poor men's faces.
Agree with "Prayers Up." May God have mercy on his soul; their souls; our souls.
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posted on
08/21/2011 9:42:15 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
("Show me one who loves: he knows what I mean." St. Augustine)
To: SwinneySwitch
They could always just stay home. Or come over legally across the bridge. Just sayin.
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posted on
08/21/2011 9:42:52 AM PDT
by
carjic
(I've always been taught to respect my elders.... but it's getting harder to find any!)
To: SwinneySwitch
According to the article the title is wrong
This article is about illegal aliens...
not immigrants..
To: SwinneySwitch
Not wishing misfortune on anyone—but I have to also say that they are doing this by choice. They could have stayed home and entered the country legally, the way my grandparents on my mom’s side did. It wasn’t easy, but they didn’t die of heat and dehydration on some godforsaken desert either.
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:00:33 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Apparently, there's no honor when it comes to someone else's retirement funds.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Guy and the rest of them died breaking the law. No pity. Let the bodies pile up and we won’t need to build a wall.
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:03:23 AM PDT
by
LVGuy600
To: cripplecreek
Too bad he died.
Shouldn’t have been there in the first place though.
Bad decisions can have bad consequences.
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:03:48 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Half the people are below average.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Gaspar was the 32nd victim of the violent heat and tough terrain in Brooks County this year. [snip] Thousands trek the Brooks County wilderness for days at a time in an attempt to bypass the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint, where 8,074 immigrants had been caught and 251,001 pounds of narcotics had been seized as of Aug. 15. Boo-hoo. Are we now supposed to build "a pathway to the US" in addition to "creating a path to citizenship"? Should we remove that EEEEVIL checkpoint that is killing poor-but-honest, hard working, illegal "immigrants"?
I couldn't help but notice they do NOT mention how many, if any, of these "immigrants" are drug mules, though they do tell us how much is intercepted at the checkpoint.
Yet another Sunday Sermon sob-story pounding the drum for "comprehensive imigration reform".
How's this for "reform": Stay Home; Stay Legal; Stay Safe
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:06:41 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
To: carjic
Give illegal aliens a path to citizenship through military service; then send your immigrant army right back south and annex Mexico. Clean the wasps’ nests out and make it a fit place to live, and they could become the most prosperous states in the United States.
You wanna invade us? Let it work both ways. You want US citizenship so badly? You can all have it...you can shoulder the burden with the rest of us instead of cutting in line for the gravy train.
To: tarotsailor
P.S. ...Mexico’s southern border needs a whole lot less fence ;)
To: hinckley buzzard
This has been happening since long before Bush. My husband found a human skull in Maverick County at least 20 years ago.
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:18:05 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: FlingWingFlyer
A minefield on our borders would be a humanitarian move. Yes I did say minefield and humanitarian.
Approximately 500 illegals die each year trying to walk across the desert after they have illegally entered the USA.
The actual number is higher because many bodies are not found in the desert.
A mine field would deter them from entering. The number of deaths would plummet. This would be a humanitarian move
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:23:39 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
To: SwinneySwitch
"
The Sheriffs Office must investigate every death outside of the Falfurrias Police Departments jurisdiction, including those of illegal immigrants"
Hey! I thought immigration matters, including illegal immigration, was strictly a Federal issue and that state and local jurisdictons had no business interfering.
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:24:47 AM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: cpdiii
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:26:48 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
To: SwinneySwitch
Sergio Gaspar died a slow death The bleeding-heart author knows this how exactly? He's dead and no one was there to see it happen. Could've just keeled over and been dead in a second. But then, these stories always need lot of drama, don't they.
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posted on
08/21/2011 12:47:59 PM PDT
by
Moltke
(Always retaliate first.)
To: SwinneySwitch
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posted on
08/21/2011 1:52:39 PM PDT
by
traumer
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