[Vision2020] "Illegals" OK only if they fight in Iraq

[Kai Eiselein, editor]

Here is an editorial from the April 3 Nogales International. For those you 
who don't know, Nogales, AZ is a border town on the front lines of the 
immigration debate.
The author, editor Manuel Coppola, is a Nogales native. He graduated from 
high school the year before I did.

By Manuel C. Coppola

Candles of respect
County investigators were both moved and surprised after being airlifted 
into a remote area of the Tumacacori Mountains Thursday to retrieve skeletal 
remains of a man believed to have crossed illegally from Mexico.
The officers were in awe that the victim apparently had not been the only 
one to pick such a treacherous route for the trek northward.
Sheriff Antonio Estrada said that among the signs that the path had been 
well-traveled was the presence of several candle offerings left by others 
for their fallen comrade. "I thought that was quite moving," he said.
In an age when "illegal aliens" and their plight have been dehumanized for 
political and ideological purposes, it was a stark reminder that after all, 
they are our brothers and sisters regardless what side of the line they come 
from.
Officers found identification belonging to a man from California, but the 
true identity of the deceased has yet to be determined. Investigators 
believe there was "no foul play" involved in his death.
We disagree. When a country so rich in natural resources and touted as the 
United States' third-largest trading partner continues to be mired in 
corruption and ineptitude to the point that it won't produce enough jobs and 
educational opportunities for its masses, there is rampant foul play.
When that same government does not seem the least embarrassed by the fact 
that its country's second-largest income is from money migrants in the 
United States send back to their families there is foul play.
There is foul play also when the United States declines to use political and 
economic pressures to try to reverse this calamity. Instead, it opts to 
target the symptom rather than the disease by focusing efforts on the 
migrants themselves who in turn use these God-forsaken routes to try to 
avoid detection.
The bones retrieved on Thursday were the third skeletal remains to be 
discovered in Santa Cruz County since January. They won't be the last - just 
the latest victims of the most-foul example of the cold incompetence of 
federal Mexican politicians as well as failed U.S. diplomacy and immigration 
policies.
When will it end?




Kai Eiselein, editor
Latah Eagle