The Left Seemingly Ignores Cases Of Sexual Violence On The Southern Border

If liberals care so much about women, why aren’t they doing anything to help prevent this?

NYT has a big piece up, detailing the prevalence of sexual violence on the southern border.

It was the summer of 2014, and Melvin, a 36-year-old mother of three, had just completed the journey from her native Guatemala, crossing the Rio Grande on a raft before being led to the house in the Texas border city of McAllen.

For weeks in that locked room, the men she had paid to get her safely to the United States drugged her with pills and cocaine, refusing to let her out even to bathe. “I think that since they put me in that room, they killed me,” she said. “They raped us so many times they didn’t see us as human beings anymore.”

On America’s southern border, migrant women and girls are the victims of sexual assaults that most often go unreported, uninvestigated and unprosecuted. Even as women around the world are speaking out against sexual misconduct, migrant women on the border live in the shadows of the #MeToo movement.

I know it’s complicated. Those male smugglers are monsters, but so many women are so desperate that they are willing to risk it. It’s a recipe for disaster.

The stories are many, and yet all too similar. Undocumented women making their way into American border towns have been beaten for disobeying smugglers, impregnated by strangers, coerced into prostitution, shackled to beds and trees and — in at least a handful of cases — bound with duct tape, rope or handcuffs.

The New York Times found dozens of documented cases through interviews with law enforcement officials, prosecutors, federal judges and immigrant advocates around the country, and a review of police reports and court records in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. The review showed more than 100 documented reports of sexual assault of undocumented women along the border in the past two decades, a number that most likely only skims the surface, law enforcement officials and advocates say.

In addition, interviews with migrant women and those working with them along the border point to large numbers of cases that are either unreported or unexamined, suggesting that sexual violence has become an inescapable part of the collective migrant journey.

Here’s the thing. If there was no incentive to come here ILLEGALLY, this wouldn’t be as prevalent. Right? If they KNEW that it wasn’t “easy” and that the chances of them making it into the country illegally were little to none, wouldn’t fewer women put themselves in these horrific situations?

One has to wonder.

I know it’s a complicated issue, but this is definitely a part of it that isn’t talked about enough.