There is so little information on this story that most of it is speculation, but what is known looks very suspicious.
Mexican human right activist Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson was arrested by ICE agents after he crossed the border to visit friends in El Paso. Somehow, Border Patrol agents recognized this guy and pulled him to the side and arrested him. According to his lawyer, Carlos Spector, ICE wants Hickerson to seek asylum. ICE says he expressed fear that his life, and that of his family may be in danger. Hickerson claims to have evidence of 170 acts of kidnapping, torture, and murder by the Mexican army, the very army dispatched to take on the drug cartels. It would make sense then, wouldn’t it? The Mexican government, so corrupt and infiltrated with thugs is utterly incapable of providing any protection for this guy, so when Hickerson crossed into the U.S. they basically took him into protective custody.
One problem. This guy didn’t want to seek asylum according to Spector, and he certainly doesn’t want to sit in jail. So here is the speculation. Why arrest him? If they wanted to provide protection for him, certainly they could provide a safe house for him and his family. But it looks like they just took him, and his family remains in Mexico. Why nab this guy? Does he have information that would make just about any American balk at the thought of erasing the border? He certainly does. Does he have information showing the depth of corruption in the Mexican government? Looks that way. Has the documentation Hickerson compiled a blow to the upcoming amnesty push? You better believe it. Would the information this guy has be a black eye to the Obama administration who has pledged millions more American tax dollars to a corrupt and criminal Mexican government to fight the drug war with the cartels? It’s a poorly kept secret that elements within the Mexican army are actually an arm of the cartels. Obama pledged our money none the less.
We can only speculate, but it seems strange that a guy with documented evidence of violence and corruption has been tossed in jail, while the very perpetrators of crimes he alleges still roam Mexico. Is ICE trying to silence this guy, or are they really looking out for him? It seems to me that if my life was in danger, one of last places I would look for refuge is in jail. Unless he’s in solitary, he’s in more danger behind bars than out in the street. If they are just trying to shut him up, we know that ICE is just taking orders from higher up. How high?
Very interesting post, I hadn’t heard about this story. It sure seems like this man is being jailed because of information that would harm Obama’s amnesty push. Our government seems to have most of its priorities backwards.