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Korean Man who Died in Mexico Returned -- Missing Organs:
The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico has been returned to his family ― without his brain, stomach and heart.
Mexican authorities claim that the man, 35, surnamed Kim, died of natural causes despite a scuffle with other people just before his death. His widow fears that someone is trying to cover up the truth.
[...] According to the widow, Kim and other men were engaged in a fight at a Monterrey karaoke on Jan. 3, which was filmed by surveillance cameras there. In a few minutes, Kim passed out and was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"More than a week later, I received the autopsy result that says 'no external injuries.' I was dumbfounded," she wrote on the Cheong Wa Dae website.
[...] She said Mexican police are not investigating the case because Kim died ― on paper ― of natural causes.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @12:01AM (7 children)
We have less of it and are a larger country. Go south of mexico and there is more violence in central america. If you're going to bring it back to immigration, maybe we should, i dunno, screen them? Said mexicans are less than nice to their illegal immigrants and economic refugees. They only leave them be if they're headed to the US. Makes me think we should take up their policy and funnel all those Guatemalans to canada. Some ship rides going to be way cheaper than a useless wall.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @01:42AM (6 children)
We do screen the legal applicants. Kinda hard to screen the illegals, and regardless the illegal immigrants are far from the "raping murdering horde" being sold by Orange Jesus.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 04 2019, @08:10AM (5 children)
So, build the wall, and you CAN SCREEN the illegals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @09:38AM
Truly you are an idiot who has been duped by the Real Estate Developer from New York City! You are stupid, Runaway! Not too bright! Unable to ascertain reality. Dumber than a bag of hammers, hammers that have never had the chance to go to college. Off the Dunning-Kroeger scale. You are the Mexican that Americans like you want to keep out, because you are that stupid. Screen the Runaway!!
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday February 04 2019, @03:41PM (3 children)
How, exactly?
Most illegal immigrants enter the country legally by plane, and then overstay their visa. They'd never even see the wall.
Of those entering by land - over half the border already has a moat(aka The Rio Grande). Almost the entire rest of it already has vehicle fencing. And if you're on foot, a wall presents only a minor nuisance easily solved by a ladder, a bit of rope, or some agility.
The only way a wall is anything more than a very expensive, very minor inconvenience is if you patrol it thoroughly to stop people climbing over it. And if you have the patrols, the wall doesn't really add much. The land is almost all flat, empty desert on either side of the border - you can see people approaching (and leaving) from miles away - all the way to the horizon for the most part.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 04 2019, @04:08PM (2 children)
That is nonsense. I've mentioned many times that I live at Ground Zero. Illegals aren't some mental exercise about faraway events. The illegals are all around me. The first wave of anchor babies are all grown up now, and applying for jobs at the plant I work at, as well as all the businesses around me.
I've mentioned that the company I worked at was bought out some years ago. There was a mad scramble among the illegals to come up with paperwork that would pass the buyer's scrutiny. Some managed, and assumed new names. Others failed, and left to find jobs elsewhere. Right now, we have three coworkers who have been working at this plant longer than I have, who are certainly illegals. We have another half dozen who came here after I started, who are illegals. We do have, of course, a number of Mexicans who ARE LEGAL!!
And, each and every one of those Mexicans who now work here, or have worked here in the past, came across that southern border, either on foot, or in ground transport. Not one of them flew into this country.
I don't know where you live, Boston, Seattle, Milwaukee, or whatever - or even if you live in the US. But, you cannot believe all the nonsense you read in the media.
There are literally millions of people in this country right now who sneaked across the southern border, mostly at night, mostly on foot, entirely illegally.
Build the wall, or there will be another ten million in the next decade - or more.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday February 04 2019, @06:01PM
Please note that I made no claim whatsoever that people aren't coming across the border - I just said that most of them fly, and a wall will barely slow the rest unless you patrol it, which we don't seriously do currently. And if we did patrol the border seriously, then the wall wouldn't really add anything more except in a few high-vulnerability spots, where it was mostly built long ago.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday February 04 2019, @06:23PM
There's really two issues here, though they overlap: illegal immigration and border security.
Real border security requires a serious border patrol. Nothing less will cut it. And thanks to the very open and exposed nature of most of the Mexican border, nothing more is needed for most of it.
Illegal immigration though has lots of other solutions. Personally, I think if we want to seriously stop illegal immigration, then we're going about it all wrong: Instead of trying to block the flow of millions of clever, desperate people, we should remove their incentive. Make knowingly employing an illegal immigrant a felony. Same for failing to do some basic due diligence. You hire someone illegally, you spend time in prison. Make it so no large-scale employer will go anywhere near anyone who can't prove they're a citizen or legal resident.
Heck we could even get the immigrants themselves do the policing by offering rewards for illegal immigrants that expose their employers. They get a trip back to Mexico with a nice payday to get them reestablished, or even a work-visa or pathway to full U.S. citizenship, and the employer ends up in prison. Who would employ them in that environment?
Of course, we've never done that because a lot of wealthy and powerful people are making money hand over fist employing a legal under-class that will work for peanuts and cower under the threat of exposure.