Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "How a Massive Immigration Raid Ended in a Massacre at the Mexican Border" video.

  1. With the Trump administration's immigration policy, it was always about the cruelty. Nevertheless, the title of this VICE piece is misleading and lacks objectivity. While ashamed of the way America has treated migrants, the responsibility for the massacre of these migrants lies with those who did the killings in Mexico, not any immigration enforcement action in the U.S. This VICE title is also picking out an arbitrary point in a chain of events during this Guatemalan's life that ignores earlier and later decisions made by the man that were illegal and which were equally or greater causality of his death. Furthermore, he was apparently the only victim in the massacre there because of the Mississippi ICE raid. Overall, this piece as a whole was also found to be somewhat slanted in its presentation, designed more to appeal to emotion than reason. It conflated a number of things together, selective in choosing some things for emphasis and largely ignoring other aspects. This story would have been better had it been about the complete life of the one migrant father, Edgar Lopez, or about all the lives affected by the massacre, or all the lives affected by the ICE raid. Instead, it is presented as a menagerie of bits and pieces of all three that doesn't fully do justice to any of them. Was left conflicted, because was both appreciative of the coverage and disappointed in it.
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