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ANNOUNCER: —an exclusive year-long investigation.

SONIA PARRAS, Immigration Lawyer: We found really bad situations with ongoing intense sexual violence.

BERTA ALBERTS, High School Educator, Clarion, IA: They were all afraid they were going to get deported.

ROBERT REICH, Fmr. Secretary of Labor: And if you're an undocumented worker in America, you are a captive.

HERE'S SOMETHING FROM FACT-CHECK

FACT CHECK: ARE 80% OF MIGRANT WOMEN RAPED ON THEIR JOURNEY TO THE US?

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed Friday that up to 80 percent of migrant women traveling through Mexico are raped.

Verdict: True

Estimates vary, but as many as eight in 10 migrant women may be raped by transnational gang members, other migrants or corrupt officials on their journey to the U.S.

Fact Check:

At a tax reform roundtable Thursday, President Donald Trump veered off script to talk at length about illegal immigration. He brought up how a “caravan” of roughly 1,000 Central American migrants, mostly from Honduras, were making their way through Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S.

“And yesterday, it came out where, this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before,” claimed Trump. “They don’t want to mention that.”

Migrants will pay people smugglers – or coyotes – to navigate them through Mexico to reach the U.S. Along the way, migrants may be kidnapped by human traffickers, or held as ransom. Women, especially those who travel alone, are susceptible to sexual abuse or rape, and some are forced into prostitution.

“Sexual violence, or the threat of sexual violence, is often used as a means of terrorizing women and their relatives,” says a 2010 report by Amnesty International. “Many criminal gangs appear to use sexual violence as part of the ‘price’ demanded of migrants.”

The threat of rape is so severe that some women even take contraceptives before embarking on the trip to avoid pregnancy.

It’s possible the incidence of rape is higher than reported, says Amnesty International, as women are often reluctant to discuss sexual assault.

The very liberal ATLANTIC has an article on the rape and murder but it's just TOO LONG to print. Just read it.

HERE'S SOMETHING FROM VOX

A detained 17-year-old immigrant wants an abortion. The government went to court to stop her.

The teenager is just one of many unaccompanied immigrant minors affected by a new policy restricting abortion access.

By Anna North Updated

At a shelter in South Texas, a teenager is fighting the federal government to get an abortion.

The 17-year-old, identified in court documents as Jane Doe, came to the US as an undocumented, unaccompanied minor. She was taken into custody at the United States-Mexico border on September 11.

HERE'S ANOTHER HUFFPOST:
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WASHINGTON ? Many undocumented immigrant girls seeking safety in the United States are raped during their journeys. Once they arrive, they are put in custody of a government that is now obstructing access to abortion. “These girls make terrible journeys,” a former Office of Refugee Resettlement official told HuffPost. There are several hundred to 1,000 pregnant minors in ORR custody at any given time, according to the ACLU. It’s unclear how many are specifically victims of rape, but sexual violence is disturbingly common for women and girls on their way to the United States. Amnesty International estimated in 2016 that 60 percent of women and girls experience sexual violence en route to the U.S., while a 2014 investigation by Fusion (now called Splinter) estimated it could be as high as 80 percent.

The potential for rape is so great that some women and girls go on birth control before making the journey to the U.S., according to immigrant rights advocates.

The potential for rape is so great that some women and girls go on birth control before making the journey to the U.S., according to immigrant rights advocates.

OPPS!

Looks like my keypad got stuck.

Where were we?

OH YEAH!

The potential for rape is so great that some women and girls go on birth control before making the journey to the U.S., according to immigrant rights advocates.

Your Heritage Foundation report is (by far) the most extensive and (likely) professional. Ignoring any bias that may exist on the part of your source, the report calls for a "more comprehensive and robust strategy for combating human smuggling, violence, and the huge numbers of illegal aliens. Such a strategy should include the following elements:"

• Continued partnerships with nations to combat human smuggling and to dismantle trafficking networks throughout the region;
• Concerted efforts to promote justice and law enforcement reform, as well as free-market reform throughout Latin America to foster healthier economies, and thus weaken the incentive to migrate;
• Rejection of proposals for amnesty which give incentives to illegal immigrants;
• An organized strategy for integrating border manpower, technology, and other resources into an enterprise capable of responding to threats and decreasing the flow of illegal aliens across the border;
• Increased interior enforcement in the U.S. and reforms in legal immigration aimed at discouraging illegal entry; and
• Creation of an active public diplomacy program to educate potential illegal immigrants on the risks of such a journey and the consequences of illegal entry into the U.S.

THAT is word for word from the report.
Most of the report is (IMO) sound and I agree with MOST of the conclusions...........
BUT,
NOWHERE is there ANY suggestion, recommendation, call, or mention of the extraordinarily STUPID idea of a desert Border WALL!!

Can you, as a citizen (?) find the strength to stand up to the Bully in the WH and oppose this massive waste of my tax dollars???
Or stay a lackey............

HERE'S MOTHER JONES:

70,000 Kids Will Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year.

Posted by laramiebob on 6/30/2018 10:35:00 AM (view original):
Your Heritage Foundation report is (by far) the most extensive and (likely) professional. Ignoring any bias that may exist on the part of your source, the report calls for a "more comprehensive and robust strategy for combating human smuggling, violence, and the huge numbers of illegal aliens. Such a strategy should include the following elements:"

• Continued partnerships with nations to combat human smuggling and to dismantle trafficking networks throughout the region;
• Concerted efforts to promote justice and law enforcement reform, as well as free-market reform throughout Latin America to foster healthier economies, and thus weaken the incentive to migrate;
• Rejection of proposals for amnesty which give incentives to illegal immigrants;
• An organized strategy for integrating border manpower, technology, and other resources into an enterprise capable of responding to threats and decreasing the flow of illegal aliens across the border;
• Increased interior enforcement in the U.S. and reforms in legal immigration aimed at discouraging illegal entry; and
• Creation of an active public diplomacy program to educate potential illegal immigrants on the risks of such a journey and the consequences of illegal entry into the U.S.

THAT is word for word from the report.
Most of the report is (IMO) sound and I agree with MOST of the conclusions...........
BUT,
NOWHERE is there ANY suggestion, recommendation, call, or mention of the extraordinarily STUPID idea of a desert Border WALL!!

Can you, as a citizen (?) find the strength to stand up to the Bully in the WH and oppose this massive waste of my tax dollars???
Or stay a lackey............

Bullet point #4 would include the building of a wall.

THANKS FOR PLAYING.

There's just TOO MUCH news and material here.

I'll have to try and cut it down or I'll be here FOREVER!

Maybe I should try to limit my access to news resources solely thru the RUSH LIMBAUGH site.

Posted by DougOut on 6/30/2018 10:39:00 AM (view original):

Posted by laramiebob on 6/30/2018 10:35:00 AM (view original):
Your Heritage Foundation report is (by far) the most extensive and (likely) professional. Ignoring any bias that may exist on the part of your source, the report calls for a "more comprehensive and robust strategy for combating human smuggling, violence, and the huge numbers of illegal aliens. Such a strategy should include the following elements:"

• Continued partnerships with nations to combat human smuggling and to dismantle trafficking networks throughout the region;
• Concerted efforts to promote justice and law enforcement reform, as well as free-market reform throughout Latin America to foster healthier economies, and thus weaken the incentive to migrate;
• Rejection of proposals for amnesty which give incentives to illegal immigrants;
• An organized strategy for integrating border manpower, technology, and other resources into an enterprise capable of responding to threats and decreasing the flow of illegal aliens across the border;
• Increased interior enforcement in the U.S. and reforms in legal immigration aimed at discouraging illegal entry; and
• Creation of an active public diplomacy program to educate potential illegal immigrants on the risks of such a journey and the consequences of illegal entry into the U.S.

THAT is word for word from the report.
Most of the report is (IMO) sound and I agree with MOST of the conclusions...........
BUT,
NOWHERE is there ANY suggestion, recommendation, call, or mention of the extraordinarily STUPID idea of a desert Border WALL!!

Can you, as a citizen (?) find the strength to stand up to the Bully in the WH and oppose this massive waste of my tax dollars???
Or stay a lackey............

Bullet point #4 would include the building of a wall.

THANKS FOR PLAYING.

NO, it doesn't!! it calls for:

"An organized strategy for integrating border manpower, technology, and other resources into an enterprise capable of responding to threats and decreasing the flow of illegal aliens across the border;"

Just can't get your nose out of the crack, eh?..............

Lackey.

HOLY CRAP! IT'S ENDLESS ON RUSH LIMBAUGH!

I'm not going to waste my time posting the obvious and well known truth UNLESS you libs want me to.

P.S. ?Anytime you libs have questions or wants sources, feel free to ask. I'll be more than happy to help you.

Trump to give Alaska back to Russia next month.

I can see Canada from my back door.