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'''Rape trees''' (also known as '''trophy trees''') are supposedly trees and bushes that are decorated with women's underwear found near "people-smuggling trails" along the [[Mexico|Mexican]]-[[United States|U.S.]] border. <ref>{{cite web|title=Rape Tree|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLy3XvPO7XU|website=YouTube|accessdate=21 May 2017|language=English|date=July 22, 2014}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=Mexican Border Rape Tree|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4u5MDrvDx0|website=YouTube|accessdate=21 May 2017|language=English}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|title=Rape trees, rosaries and English-only: Why the Supreme Court won’t quell the immigration debate|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/rape-trees-rosaries-and-english-only-why-the-supreme-court-wont-quell-the-immigration-debate/2012/04/25/gIQArUXPhT_blog.html?utm_term=.bee7a519c504|accessdate=21 May 2017|agency=Washington Post|date=April 25, 2012|language=English}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|author1=Jeff Tietz|title=The US-Mexico Border's 150 Miles of Hell|url=http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-u-s-mexico-borders-150-miles-of-hell-20130103|accessdate=22 May 2017|language=English}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|author1=Tim Vanderpool|title=Price of Admission Along the border, sexual assault has become routine|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/price-of-admission/Content?oid=1091501|accessdate=22 May 2017|agency=Tuscon Weekly|date=June 5, 2008|language=English|quote=The rapists are known to hang women's bras and panties from tree limbs as trophies.}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|author1=Lizbeth Diaz|author2=Anahi Rama|title=Violence against women 'pandemic' in Mexico|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence-women-idUSBREA2608F20140307|accessdate=22 May 2017|agency=Reuters|date=March 7, 2014|language=English|quote=The gangs even prey on women migrants looking to get to the United States. In the desert between Mexicali and Tecate on the U.S. border, rapists are so brazen that they flaunt their crimes by displaying their victims' underwear on trees.}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|author1=Scott Johnson|title=Busy “Pipeline” Migrant Route Makes Texas Town Hub for Human Smuggling|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140810-immigration-minors-smuggling-central-america-texas/|publisher=National Geographic|accessdate=22 May 2017|date=August 10, 2014|quote=He and others around town say migrant girls are raped and killed by their coyotes so often that there’s a term for the trees where the bra-and-underwear ties are hung: rape trees.}}</ref> |
'''Rape trees''' (also known as '''trophy trees''') are supposedly trees and bushes that are decorated with women's underwear found near "people-smuggling trails" along the [[Mexico|Mexican]]-[[United States|U.S.]] border. <ref>{{cite web|title=Rape Tree|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLy3XvPO7XU|website=YouTube|accessdate=21 May 2017|language=English|date=July 22, 2014}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=Mexican Border Rape Tree|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4u5MDrvDx0|website=YouTube|accessdate=21 May 2017|language=English}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|title=Rape trees, rosaries and English-only: Why the Supreme Court won’t quell the immigration debate|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/rape-trees-rosaries-and-english-only-why-the-supreme-court-wont-quell-the-immigration-debate/2012/04/25/gIQArUXPhT_blog.html?utm_term=.bee7a519c504|accessdate=21 May 2017|agency=Washington Post|date=April 25, 2012|language=English}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|author1=Jeff Tietz|title=The US-Mexico Border's 150 Miles of Hell|url=http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-u-s-mexico-borders-150-miles-of-hell-20130103|accessdate=22 May 2017|language=English}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|author1=Tim Vanderpool|title=Price of Admission Along the border, sexual assault has become routine|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/price-of-admission/Content?oid=1091501|accessdate=22 May 2017|agency=Tuscon Weekly|date=June 5, 2008|language=English|quote=The rapists are known to hang women's bras and panties from tree limbs as trophies.}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|author1=Lizbeth Diaz|author2=Anahi Rama|title=Violence against women 'pandemic' in Mexico|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence-women-idUSBREA2608F20140307|accessdate=22 May 2017|agency=Reuters|date=March 7, 2014|language=English|quote=The gangs even prey on women migrants looking to get to the United States. In the desert between Mexicali and Tecate on the U.S. border, rapists are so brazen that they flaunt their crimes by displaying their victims' underwear on trees.}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|author1=Scott Johnson|title=Busy “Pipeline” Migrant Route Makes Texas Town Hub for Human Smuggling|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140810-immigration-minors-smuggling-central-america-texas/|publisher=National Geographic|accessdate=22 May 2017|date=August 10, 2014|quote=He and others around town say migrant girls are raped and killed by their coyotes so often that there’s a term for the trees where the bra-and-underwear ties are hung: rape trees.}}</ref> |
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Rape trees (also known as trophy trees) are supposedly trees and bushes that are decorated with women's underwear found near "people-smuggling trails" along the Mexican-U.S. border. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
As described by Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Arizona in testimony to the U.S. Congress - Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims:
- Smuggling routes are often marked with "'rape trees'--women's under garments hung on tree limbs where a rape occurred." [8]
According to Sheriff Dever, they are "monuments and signals to everybody along the line of what the consequences will be for failing to cooperate with the 'Coyotes'."[9] US Congressman Ted Poe asserted the existence of "rape trees" in the US Congress on June 7, 2006. [10]
In Waiting for Jose, author Harel Shapira writes that according to Minutemen interviewed in the book, raping women can be part of the Coyotes' fee in taking women across the border. However, Shapira also notes that the idea of a "rape tree" is a trope among Minutemen who guard the United States/Mexico border as volunteers.[11] Jennifer L. Johnson also describes alleged rape trees described by Minutemen along the border.[12] Writers Sam Grabowska and John Doering-White call "rape trees" a term created "predominantly by those with particular political motivations, such as the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps [...]. To them, the rape trees signify sexual assault perpetrated by coyotes against female migrants. Through the Minutemen's characterization of the tree, women are portrayed as modest, vulnerable, and victimized by powerful nonwhite men."[13]
In popular culture
A rape tree was included in one of the episodes of the US television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The season 11 episode "Spooked" involved a case where two people were killed and their killer left a rape tree. [14] A 2008 episode of the U.S. television program Weeds included a discussion of a get-rich-quick scheme to become human traffickers with "competitive pricing" but "without the rape trees and extortion." [15]
See also
References
- ^ "Rape Tree". YouTube. July 22, 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Mexican Border Rape Tree". YouTube. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Rape trees, rosaries and English-only: Why the Supreme Court won't quell the immigration debate". Washington Post. April 25, 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ Jeff Tietz. "The US-Mexico Border's 150 Miles of Hell". Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ Tim Vanderpool (June 5, 2008). "Price of Admission Along the border, sexual assault has become routine". Tuscon Weekly. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
The rapists are known to hang women's bras and panties from tree limbs as trophies.
- ^ Lizbeth Diaz; Anahi Rama (March 7, 2014). "Violence against women 'pandemic' in Mexico". Reuters. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
The gangs even prey on women migrants looking to get to the United States. In the desert between Mexicali and Tecate on the U.S. border, rapists are so brazen that they flaunt their crimes by displaying their victims' underwear on trees.
- ^ Scott Johnson (August 10, 2014). "Busy "Pipeline" Migrant Route Makes Texas Town Hub for Human Smuggling". National Geographic. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
He and others around town say migrant girls are raped and killed by their coyotes so often that there's a term for the trees where the bra-and-underwear ties are hung: rape trees.
- ^ "Transcript of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims". Government Printing Office. Statement of Sheriff Dever: Government Printing Office. March 2, 2006. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Transcript of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims". Government Printing Office. Statement of Sheriff Dever: Government Printing Office. March 2, 2006. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Rape Trees". Ted Poe Website. Congressman Ted Poe. June 7, 2006. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
Ripped from the bodies of unwilling women, undergarments cling to branches of a tree just a few feet from the lawless U.S.-Mexico border, dozens of pairs of underwear thrown there by rapists. These are called rape trees. Each pair is a trophy from a woman that was smuggled into the United States, victims that are heard screaming in the desert. They are raped, even gang raped by illegal human smugglers, then forced into silence. These trees are a warning. Illegal immigrants evade our borders but crime doesn't evade them. Some become criminals. Some become victims. They are raped, robbed and murdered by other illegals, human smugglers and brutal criminals who then claim other victims. More than 70 percent of their rapes, murders and child sex crimes are against Americans. One expert who studies sex crimes says about a hundred illegal sex offenders cross the border every day, leaving thousands of victims every year.Rape trees are a warning to illegals not to talk. They should be a warning to Americans as well, to shout out against illegal entry and human smuggling. And that's just the way it is.
- ^ Shapira, Harel (2013). Waiting for Jose: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 116–117. ISBN 9781400846764 – via Project Muse.
Even though I'd heard the story of "rape trees" many times before, I raise my eyebrows to give him the satisfaction of the shock he was looking to provoke. 'That's right. It's part of their fee. They'll take them and rape 'em. I've been out on patrol and I've heard it myself. Heard the screams of some poor woman being taken advantage." p116 "For the Minutemen, the rape trees are a powerful symbol of the Mexican male's immorality and simultaneously imbue their own actions with valor; by patrolling the border, the volunteers are defending not just America but women, and not just American women but all women, even the ones who are "illegal.' p.117
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - ^ Johnson, Jennifer L. (2014). "Border Granny Wants You!': Grandmothers Policing Nation at the US-Mexico Border". In Naples, Nancy A. (ed.). Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9781479806799 – via Project Muse.
Coyotes—slang for guides paid large sums to lead unauthorized individuals across the border—collected and displayed these "trophies" on "rape trees" all along the border, Pete alleged.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - ^ Grabowska, Sam; Doering-White, John (2016). "(Re)Collecting Clandestine Crossings of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands". Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting. Gainsville, Florida: University Press of Florida. p. 211. ISBN 9780813055688 – via Project MUSE.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - ^ "Law & Order SVU "Spooked" Recap & Review". October 28, 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Synopsis for "Weeds" Excellent Treasures (2008)". IMBd. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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