Why Fix Immigration

By: Gilberto Acevedo, M.A

Webster University
School of Legal Analysis

Cultural and costume crimes importation is the real reason why

we need to fix immigration. It’s not cheap labor, free ride on
social services, and not paying taxes. In fact, these are not
what conservatives have in mind either; they just don’t want
America to turn brown. I doubt conservatives spend much time
studying any other society; they are too busy trying to stop
this one from civically progressing.

The total number of deaths caused by criminal and non-negligent

manslaughter in the US was 16,929 for the year 2007, according
to the Uniform Crime Report. That is, 5.6. And if these numbers
nauseate you, what about the fact that in Nayarit, Mexico 4.5
out of every 100,000 women were killed in 2004? According to
statistics, in the last 14 years 1060 women were killed in
Ciudad Juarez. Because no viable census has been conducted
since 2000 in that city (1.3 million), the general estimation
is that in 2007 the population soared to 4.0 million with the
presence of people from different Latin American countries.
Last September the number of murdered women reached 75 just for
2008; thus, totaling 544. These numbers do not include vanished
women who have not been found.

Women homicides found in Campo Algodonero, Lomas de Poleo,

Cristo Negro, Lote Bravo, Zacate Blanco, Granja Santa Elena,
and Cerro Bola remain unsolved. In an article Published by La
Jornada, in August -pick month- 11 women were murdered by their
partners. To all these, add organized crimes by drug cartels
and kidnappings for ransom. The whole picture itself does not
tell about the threat we face.

These types of crimes (already spilling over our borders) are

the product of dysfunctional societies and failed governments.
But most important, it is a macho culture that has evolved into
an environment of power and money. There is not a single serial
killer in the case of murdered women; rather it is attributable
to several factors in connection with that macho custom.
Kidnapping has become a fast recourse for making money, and it
is hard to stop it due to corruption and fear. Finally and
aside from drug cartels rivalry, a vast number of deaths are
those of addicts who do not have the means to pay what they had
consumed. This type of freedommania is typical of countries
with high poverty rates, concentration of wealth by the few,
corruption, insensitive incompetent officials, and no death
penalty.

I would not go as far as to say that the death penalty is an

effective deterrence tool; but as little as it may serve, it
keeps some harsh crimes from taking place. Our society is far
from perfect, but we have a set of laws that, when properly
working, can apply sound justice. The gap here is undocumented
individuals that we do not know who they are. And the Mexican
system of laws is not much of a help.

We have already suffered as a society form some of those crime

styles in our cities. We have seen executions of families,
children included. And we are unable to solve most of those
crimes because the assailant can flee to Mexico where he will
not be found or not turned in due to police corruption.

The undocumented ones, who cut grass, work in factories and

roofs are visible and easy to deport. Or the woman who’s being
living in the country for 10 years and has a 5-year-old son is
easy to find and deport. That’s how we can tell between a
deportable and a non-deportable. On the other hand, the non-
deportable looks citizen and the bad elements from the other
side of the border know that.

We need people who actually know Latino cultures and are

proficiently familiar with the variety of dialects, customs,
and ideals of Latin America. We can train our American border
patrol with intense language and culture, but there is no
better border official than the one who was actually part of
that language and culture by birth. We can come up with sound
comprehensive policies to contain the problem of immigration,
but if we don’t incorporate individuals with these attributes,
the problems that I just mentioned will continue to grow. Keep
in mind that drug lords have the money to buy their way in the
USA, and not necessarily directly from Mexico, Colombia or
Venezuela. We need officials with the expertise and ability to
spot them.