Deadliest migrant death month

[KurtFF8]

Source (http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14353&news_iv_ctrl=1261)


Wednesday, August 11, 2010
By: Ana Santoyo In brief
There is a very real and significant human cost to what is considered “illegal” immigration in this country. In July, there were over 60 migrant deaths documented by the Pima County Medical Examiner’s office in Arizona, which handles deaths in three counties. This death toll equals the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan in the deadliest month of the nine-year war.
Heat exposure is the major cause of the deaths, along with hypothermia, drowning and car accidents. The U.S. government’s policies are also implicated in these deaths. The Obama administration has added additional National Guard troops along the border and has also increased funding for high-tech military equipment, including unmanned drones. Immigrants may be taking more out-of-the-way and dangerous routes to avoid the increased military presence.
Increased militarization of the border will not stop workers from crossing the border in search of work; it is only leading to their deaths.


Pretty crazy

[Dimentio]

Sometimes in the 2030's, I think we could get a situation in southern USA where there actually could be a massacre on immigrants, especially as the Latinos eventually will form the majority of people.

[erupt]

Sometimes in the 2030's, I think we could get a situation in southern USA where there actually could be a massacre on immigrants, especially as the Latinos eventually will form the majority of people.
Don't call me a conspiracy theorist but I'd bet they exist already, my friend.
EDIT: What I mean't is I wouldn't be surprised about mass graves out in the desert... or something along those lines.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Hell, does everyone remember that militia group in Arizona or New Mexico that killed a family for money?

[Communist]

Hell, does everyone remember that militia group in Arizona or New Mexico that killed a family for money?
Somewhat. I heard a little about it but don't think I ever got the details of what happened - if I'm even thinking of the same story.
Horrible.

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[Nolan]

Hell, does everyone remember that militia group in Arizona or New Mexico that killed a family for money?

Source?

[Rusty Shackleford]

ill find it, and ill edit this post with the source

EDIT found a source
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/140745/armed_radical_%27minutemen%27_kill_father_and_9-year-old_daughter_in_anti-immigrant_hate/

Reminds me of how fucked up 2009 was.


Armed Radical 'Minutemen' Kill Father and 9-Year-Old Daughter in Anti-Immigrant Hate


Right-wing hate groups are hijacking America's economic distress to push their lethal agendas.
June 18, 2009





A week after a white supremacist attacked (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hmxKiiSIsM-k7nX2yECb7kGw1qhwD98RRP481) the Holocaust Museum in Washington, and on the day three teenagers are being sentenced (http://www.republicanherald.com/articles/2009/05/08/news/local_news/pr_republican.20090508.a.pg1.pr08sentencing_s1.250 7925_top4.txt) in Shenandoah, Pa., for brutally beating to death a Mexican immigrant, it's time we confront the fact that behind violently anti-immigrant and supremacist rhetoric is a real urge and a real encouragement for actual violence.

On May 30, 2009 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i3-6vvGnEiSGwzvcTDAYeggW6KzAD98Q2RF00), a group of armed men and women killed 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father in Arivaca, Ariz. The vigilantes were Minutemen, members of a "civilian defense corps" that polices the U.S.-Mexico border for undocumented immigrants. When Jason Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Gaxiola, 42, allegedly busted down the front door of the Flores home and killed Raul Junior Flores and his daughter, and seriously injured Flores' wife, the armed gang was supposedly looking for drugs and cash to fund their anti-immigrant organization (http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/minutemen-murder-arizona-immigration/).
Arizona police allege (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i3-6vvGnEiSGwzvcTDAYeggW6KzAD98Q2RF00) Shawna Forde was the ringleader. Forde was the executive director of Minuteman American Defense and a spokeswoman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, often touted as a "mainstream" voice opposing immigration. But if Forde was indeed involved, the bloody acts in Arivaca reveal the true hatred and contempt behind anti-immigrant organizations in our country.
Many well-meaning, average Americans who have understandable concerns about our economy and how they're going to support their families have been convinced that anti-immigrant organizations are on their side and feel their pain. But the reality is, organizations like the Minutemen and FAIR are only co-opting our economic insecurity (an insecurity that's shared by immigrants and citizens alike) to mask their real agendas, motivated purely by hatred for those who are different.
It was the same thing in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler started by talking about how Jews were threatening the German economy and should all be expelled from the country. And then he killed 6 million.
Are we really so naïve as a nation to think that the anti-immigrant fervor, from Lou Dobbs to the Minutemen, is anything about our economy or our well-being or our way of life? After all, our nation was built by immigrants, our strongest economic times in recent years have been driven by high rates of immigration, and even now, our economy actively lures low-wage workers from across the border to get back on firm footing. Do we really think we'd be reacting as negatively if the immigrants coming here had light skin and spoke French?
Jason Bush, one of the other Minutemen charged in the Arizona homicides, was charged in another slaying in 1997 in Washington state. He allegedly bragged to a police informant about "killing a Mexican." The man Bush killed was a 29-year-old homeless man who had been sleeping under a blanket near a parking lot when Bush stabbed him several times with a knife.
Regarding the Arizona slayings, the Minutemen American Defense group has placed the following statement on its Web site (http://minutemenamericandefense.org/index.htm):



only the first page. but i apologize for any text fuck ups. i hate quoting ad-heavy articles.