snarkbender:

lamaschingonaa:

forcedranting:

sulitati:

Ten times more people died in nine years trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico Border than died trying to cross the Berlin Wall during its 28 year existence.

And death rates are spiking, even as immigration from Mexico slows.

The main difference: the Berlin Wall didn’t cross one of the most unforgiving deserts in the world. Everybody who died trying to cross it was shot by guards. By comparison, the US Border Patrol has rescued more than 15,000 migrants during the same period, over 3x the number of deaths.

But you’re not going to mention how many people the Border Patrol has killed? How they shot down through the fence and killed a 16 year old boy? How many water caches they intentionally sabotage? How they leave injuries, even serious injuries, untreated? How they sexually assault migrant women? How funneling migrants through the deadliest part of the United States was an intentional part of border policy - that they knew that people were going to die, and instituted it anyway?

And if you want to be nit picky, the number of confirmed deaths is around 4,000. For every migrant that is found, there are at least five to ten times that number. That puts the estimate deaths between 20,000 and 40,000.

20,000 to 40,000 intentionally designed deaths. Most of which are buried without recognition, graves, or memorials.

they talk about the Unforgiving Desert being the cause of death for these people, as though armed vigilantes have no part in this.

like no responsibility falls on people who intentionally destroy stores of food & water placed in the desert to help these people try to survive.

as though there’s no culpability for people who take advantage of the desperation of migrants & abandon them to their deaths once they have their money.

there is no part of ‘they died in the desert’ that isn’t shrugging and saying 'that’s what they get, should have stayed home, too bad so sad.’ such brave indifference, it’s not the guns of the militarized border, both official and unofficial, that killed all those people - it wss the desert that //totally coincidentally// just happened to be right there in the way.

this is a slightly off-base comparison in that east germany built a wall to keep people //in//, not out, but the intent was the same, so whatever. if the stasi could have built their 'anti-fascist protection wall’ over a desert they would have.