McCAUGHEY: Open borders expose women and girls to sexual violence

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The United Nations calls it “femicide” – the deliberate abuse, rape and murder of girls and women. In Latin America, it is a cultural epidemic.

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On the route from South America and the Northern Triangle countries to the Mexico-US border, femicide is visible everywhere. Rape trees with women’s panties hanging from their branches and rape tents into which girls and women are dragged by smugglers line the route.

Do you think rapes will stop if illegal immigrants enter the United States? No.

Now women are becoming victims of migrants who are bringing femicide to our neighborhoods. Where are the women’s rights groups? They are silent. They don’t care. It is politically incorrect to criticize Latin American culture – even its tolerance of violence against women.

Last week, illegal Ecuadorian Geovanny Inga-Landi allegedly attacked, threatened with a knife and raped a 13-year-old girl on her way home from school in Queens. He filmed the attack for his later amusement.

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But Squad member Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) laughed off the reporting of the crime, calling it “scaremongering.”

According to police reports, Inga-Landi has a history of abuse of women, including beating his pregnant wife. He crossed the border illegally in 2021 and was ordered to leave the country by a New York immigration judge in February 2022.

And what about the 13-year-old victim? Her father is strongly opposed to President Joe Biden’s “open borders policy” because “it invites a lot of things that we don’t need,” adding, “Look what came in. Look what happened to my daughter.”

Sexual violence against women is widespread in Latin America, reports the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, a division of the United Nations.

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According to the George Bush Institute at the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC, the number of femicides in Mexico is increasing rapidly. “Gender-based violence remains one of the most important, yet overlooked, reasons for migration from Central America and the region as a whole.”

On April 24, UN official Alice Shackelford warned of an “emergency situation” in Honduras, saying violence against women is normalized there and the femicide rate has risen to the highest in Latin America.

Migdonia Ayestad of the National Autonomous University of Honduras also reported on the “level of hatred and contempt towards women” in Honduras, stating that “men believe they have a right to women’s bodies.”

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The UN has its own left-wing interests to represent. And most illegal immigrants from Latin America are not violent criminals. Nevertheless, dangerous misogynistic attitudes are entering our country because of the open borders.

Leftists are in denial about the problem. They are appalled that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein raped women on a casting couch, but they are in denial when illegal Latinos rape. CNN political commentator Van Jones said Saturday, “South of the border, there is no culture that celebrates rape. … They insult people below the border.”

Sorry, facts are facts. To hell with political correctness.

The incidents are piling up. On February 25, an illegal Honduran was arrested in Kenner, Louisiana, after allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint.

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Mexican illegal immigrant Eduardo Sarabia was arrested on May 16 for allegedly kidnapping and raping two women in a white van equipped as a “rape dungeon on wheels.”

The illegal Salvadoran man arrested this month for the alleged rape and murder of Rachel Morin was also wanted for attacking a mother and her nine-year-old daughter during a burglary in Los Angeles.

Venezuela accounts for a large proportion of the murderers of women. The country refuses to provide the United States with information about the criminal backgrounds of migrants caught at the border. Here are some of the consequences.

Laken Riley, a nursing student from Georgia, was allegedly raped and murdered by a Venezuelan migrant on February 22.

On the same day, Venezuelan migrant Renzo Mendoza Montes is said to have sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in Virginia.

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Last week, the body of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was found in Houston. She was allegedly murdered by two Venezuelan migrants. They lured the girl under a bridge, stripped her naked below the waist, bound her hands and feet and raped her for two hours before killing her.

Too many deaths and life-destroying attacks. Tell the women’s rights groups supporting President Joe Biden that safety from rapists and sexual predators is a right.

Leftists reject the word “illegal.” They prefer “undocumented.” Let’s not mince our words. Some are rapists and murderers. Monsters. Close the border to put an end to the madness of femicide.

Betsy McCaughey is a former Lieutenant Governor of New York

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