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[–]Tom_Bombadil 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

They must be fleeing awful conditions in their home country to risk these odds of being raped.

Conditions that were created by the regional superpower, that is.

Edit: Whatever your thoughts on Trump, he has probably helped by shedding light on this issue.

[–]wizzwizz4 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Whatever your thoughts on Trump

It's sad that we have to write that sort of thing. What's worse (maybe) is that I needed that disclaimer to take what you said at face value, and I was trying.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. It is sad.
Thanks for noticing that detail. ;-)

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

but it's not getting raped in their home country . . . it's while traveling in a caravan to USA. Maybe they should stay in their own country.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The sexual assault that is the subject of Trumps statement happens during the flight from their home country.

Which means that the situation in their home country is so bad that peoples mothers and daughters are willing to risk rape to escape their predicament

Imagine hugging your sister or mother or daughter goodbye... knowing exactly what she may endure on the way. But also knowing it will be worse if she stays.

Can you imagine the horror of that???

 

Your mother.

 

Your sister.

 

Your wife

 

Your daughter.

 

You're helpless.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

mostly grown ass dudes coming here tho

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who’s Really Crossing the U.S. Border, and Why They’re Coming

And many Central American migrants are female—many more than the Mexican migrants who came before them. While female Mexican migrants averaged around 13 percent of all Mexican migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol from FY1995 through FY2017, Central American women averaged between 20 and 32 percent. In recent years these numbers have increased even more, with women constituting 48 percent of all Salvadoran migrants in the last fiscal year and Honduran women reaching 43 percent of migrants from their country.

I had to look for a bit to find this. This is probably an inconvenient detail, which doesn't fit the correct left/right narrative.

Both political parties would probably prefer to sweep this under the rug.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

lol orange man proven wrong take that trump fans hahahah . . . . oops wait never mind we retract that

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly.