Letter to the editor: Where’s the outrage over abuse at the border?

Tribune-Review | Friday, October 18, 2024 8:00 a.m.

It’s been quite a few weeks, and I am still stewing about your editorial about child sexual abuse (“There’s no excuse for not reporting child sexual abuse,” Sept. 1, TribLive).

Where is your outrage about the sexual abuse occurring at the southern border? I don’t recall seeing any editorials concerning the problems that have occurred over the past three years with the southern border.

According to data Reuters obtained from the Mexican government, children are being used, abused, lost and marketed. Women have been abused and raped along major transit routes used by migrants. Where is the outrage? It is so easy to close our eyes to a problem we don’t want to see when it’s not politically correct.

Luis Miranda, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said, “The inhumane way smugglers abuse, extort and perpetrate violence against migrants for profit is criminal and morally reprehensible.” Where is the editorial about that?

Louise Esposito

Murrysville