On another thread last week I pointed out the gradual blurring between “illegal aliens” and “victims of human traficking”; while I’m sure there is some overlap, this is being done to get Americans to accept having ALL of these illegal aliens stay in the US. Soon it will be grounds for “asylum” if you crossed the border three nights after a victim of human trafficking crossed within a twenty mile radius.../s
Trafficking involves coercion-promising a person who is usually young and uneducated, maybe from a remote village a green card and a job in los estados unidos. Also-in Mexico, at least-if someone wants a person out of the way for various reasons, but is squeamish about murder, or if they are involved in a blood feud with the family, they will pay a coyote to abduct and traffic that person, or a young person from the family. They might even demand ransom later from the family/parents of the abductee. Happens all the time.
And when the person is rescued, the remedy for being trafficked is to testify against the coyote in a court of law-you don’t get asylum here by getting trafficked, no matter how terrible that is-most people are grateful to go home because they were brought here by force and made to work for free to pay their own ransom-women and girls are often prostituted. Asylum is for people in danger of arrest in their home country-not someone who got abducted from another country.
Coming over here either by yourself or with the help of a coyote is different-first, it is by free will-Americans of Hispanic ancestry like me call those people mojados-wetbacks-we don’t like them, and it isn’t a nice term.
You aren’t promised any green card and you probably have no intention of getting one-you just intend to stay here, working cheap to undercut legal laborers, and snarfing up any benefits you can get. If you have a family, you probably send most of your pay back to them, in the form of money orders-you do not contribute to the economy here significantly at all and the liberals who say that you do are lying, period.
When someone turns you in to la migra-and they will-it is easy to prove that you are mojado, and you are no political dissident-so straight back you need to go, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Trust me-no one here is likely to be granting any asylum to any illegal, and once Obama is out of office, I don’t think any other state will, either...