Attention at the southern border right now is centered on the tens of thousands of unaccompanied foreign children being dumped into our care. But an op-ed in the New York Times serves as a helpful reminder of another problem at the border.
Viridiana Rios, a writer and fellow at the International Women’s Forum, wrote Thursday in the New York Times about a candidate for governor in Mexico who faces multiple accusations of sexual assault and yet still retains the backing of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
That’s a problem for Mexicans to deal with, but Rios is helpful in her piece with a reminder that not all cultures are created equal. Mexico’s is rife with misogyny that would repulse most Americans.
“López Obrador believes that feminism is the wrong battle to wage,” she writes. “He thinks the root of Mexico’s poverty and gender inequality is the result of a government that for decades has been corruptly committed to protecting a group of businessmen who amassed fortunes thanks to their proximity to power, and not the country’s ingrained misogyny.”
Of the nearly 300,000 apprehensions at the southern border of single adults illegally crossing into the United States in fiscal year 2020, more than 75% were Mexicans. (Keep in mind that most of 2020 was a pandemic year, and border crossings sharply fell from previous years.) The vast majority of those illegal aliens are men, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Sure, most of them are coming here to earn money to send back to families in Mexico, but Biden wants to legalize them all. And, contrary to what liberals said during the Trump years, it is strikingly common to catch convicted rapists, sex offenders, and child molesters at the border trying to reenter the U.S. Anyone signed up for press releases from the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas knows that this happens as a matter of routine.
This is what Biden and Democrats are importing at taxpayer expense. You can thank them now or later.
