The Mexican Police could be the Key to Immigration Reform

   You protect your women from rape. Check: You protect any women from rape, whether they are "yours" or not.

   Pause for a moment and ask yourself why we have police. Isn't it to protect you from crime? Isn't that what police agencies are created for? Might I suggest, then, the police in Mexico are charged with the responsibility of protecting women crossing their state from rape.

   Protect the other emigrants, as well, whether you do it with a national police or with a national guard. Escort them from one end of the country to the other. But, whatever you do, protect the women and children. Let us not begrudge them such protection. Let us appeal to the Mexican government to provide care to all those who travel within the borders of Mexico.

    We speak of immigration reform. Well, a change like this might well amount to the biggest and most significant improvement in our immigration system in the last 50 years. If you protect the migrants from the traffickers from one end of the journey to the other, human trafficking is eliminated. If you deny the cartels access to the immigrants, you are taking the cartels out of the equation. How could not a simple adjustment like this, then, be a major game-changer?  

   And, who should oppose it? Protecting women and children is something we all want to do. Nobody should want any ill fortune to come to any of these people, the migrants.