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A team of independent investigators, probing the disappearance and alleged killing of 43 college students at the hands of criminal gangs in 2014 in Mexico, is set to dispute the government's account of what happened, reports said Friday.
[...] The international panel faced a sustained campaign of harassment, stonewalling and intimidation, The New York Times reported. The panel of experts alleged that the investigators endured planned attacks from Mexican news media and a refusal by the government to turn over documents or grant interviews with essential figures.
[...] The Mexican government had earlier concluded that the 43 students, who were in the city of Iguala in southwestern Mexico as part of a protest, were kidnapped by police officers working for criminal gangs, who then killed and incinerated them in a garbage dump of a nearby town.
The attorney general, who led the government probe, reportedly called the office's finding the "historic truth."
The independent investigators have opposed this version and maintained that the government's account of the events was based in part on confessions apparently extracted by torture. The panel also dismissed the theory that the students were burnt beyond identification at a rubbish dump as physically impossible.
Source: The International Business Times
(Score: 2) by devlux on Monday April 25 2016, @11:20PM
FYI prostitution is perfectly legal down here. As long as she is age of consent, it's considered a woman's choice what she wants to do with her body or how much she wants to sell it for.
I've known several ladies who choose the line of work and never met one with a pimp down here.
Oh yeah maybe that's because pimping and human trafficking is life in federal prison on a chain gang!
What is it in the USA now? Probation for the pimp and a minimum year in jail for the girls? Unless of course the girl is 17.99 years old then it's LWOP for the pimp.
A fence isn't going to stop coyotes, they'll dig under it, or go around it or bribe their way through.
Hell I'm a 10th generation US Citizen, with an honorable military service record and even I have more problems getting across on the rare occasion I need to, than they do.
Now setting a first time offense of jailing business owners who hire illegals knowingly or not and 10 years in prison on a second offense, might actually do something to stop it. But at that point you're tackling the source of the problem which is the demand side, not the supply side.
eVerify is a thing and it has been for quite awhile, but businesses need to use it, and there need to be real penalties to the business. The kind that cripple the company financially and give real jail time to the offenders. Otherwise you may as well not even have it.
If you did that, what you would find is far less businesses hiring illegals, but the illegals just setup shops and businesses of their own.
Nationalism is the real problem, stop being prejudiced based on where someone was born and raised. Stop with that, just let folks alone. Give those who come to your country through whatever means, a clear path to citizenship that isn't full of pitfalls that will get them discarded err deported and you'll see the illegal immigration problem cease.
But you can't ask others to change. You have to be the change.