By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Among the topics when Donald Trump announced his Republican presidential candidacy on June 16 in New York City was his comment that Mexico was sending the U.S. its problems, including rapists.
Trump added, “I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting.”
Dominant liberal media reacted as if Trump had told a monstrous, insulting lie. In fact, he told the truth, but these liberal media reacted by contriving their usual misinformation to turn facts on their heads.
“Rape trees” are a fact along the border with Mexico. Dominant media don’t like to admit this real “war on women,” but occasionally word leaks out. Even in the liberals’ beloved New York Times.
The January 23, 2014, Times had an opinion column headlined, “The Walls That Hurt Us.” In the 11th paragraph one read: “Border activists speak about ‘rape trees’ in the borderlands of Arizona and California where human smugglers, many connected with Mexican drug cartels, pause their journey to rape their female charges. When they finish, the rapists hang their victims’ bras and panties on the branches as a morbid accounting of their conquests.”
The Wanderer contacted one of its sources who lives near the Mexican border, an Arizona woman who insists on not being identified out of concern for her safety. This newspaper has reported her commenting on rape trees in the past.
In a July 12 interview the woman said, “Volunteers photographing and documenting the human- and drug-smuggling trails along the Arizona border” provide evidence of this.
“The Texas border volunteers photograph them all the time,” too, she added.
She said she thought word started to come out about the rape trees in 2004.
Citing a man who photographed rape trees, the woman added, “I don’t want to be killed by these [alien] guys. . . . I’m afraid to — I’m not Donald Trump, I don’t have security. . . . I have to do it [speak] in anonymity. The government isn’t going to protect us….Locals are afraid to speak up and put their name on it.”
The woman emailed The Wanderer three articles, including one posted July 5, 2013, by U.S. News & World Report. It began:
“Just before sundown, a group of men cloaked in camouflage from the Texas Border Volunteers halts their all-terrain vehicle, along a winding, sandy road. As they make their way around the heavy brush, they circle around a pile of women’s undergarments, which lay at the foot of a tree. In sections of land near the U.S.-Mexico border, this is known as a ‘rape tree.’ And for the residents of Brooks County, Texas, rape trees are popping up at an alarming frequency.
“‘I’ve had three rape cases in the last month,’ says Benny Martinez, the chief deputy at the Brooks County Sheriff’s Department. ‘These guys are animals. There is an intimidation factor there. If they don’t give into the brush guide, [the women] get beat up’.”
An article in March 2009 at Latina.com, headlined, “‘Rape trees’ found along southern U.S. border,” said: “Now, a new method of marking territory has crossed over into the United States. ‘Rape trees’ are popping up in Southern Arizona, and their significance is horrific. These ‘rape trees’ are places where cartel members and coyotes rape female border crossers and hang their clothes, specifically undergarments, to mark their conquest.”
The Houston Chronicle posted an article from the Texas Observer in March 2009 about women in immigration detention having difficulty getting abortions after they were raped on their way into the U.S. Two paragraphs:
“In 2008, 10,653 women were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to agency spokeswoman Cori Bassett, 965 of those women — nearly 10 percent — were pregnant. Many of them, like Maria, were raped on their way to the United States — a journey known to be dangerous for any willing to take it, but especially so for women. . . .
“Along the U.S.-Mexico border, on stretches of desert and farmland trafficked by undocumented immigrants, women’s underwear is draped from the branches of trees. On a single tree outside Tucson, Ariz., an orange pair, a blue pair, and a white pair hang like grotesque ornaments among the desert’s thorny brush. Border activists and women’s advocacy groups call them ‘rape trees.’ Each pair of underwear, they say, represents a victim of sexual abuse.”
The article added that in some Central American communities, women are advised to take oral contraceptives in order to prepare for possible rape on their trip, and to dress like men to lessen the possibility of attack.
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