“Fifteen-year-old girls have a ceremony called a
Quinceañera, which announces their availability to become wives, mothers and girlfriends. In America, children of that age are expected to complete three more years of high school, to be followed hopefully by a college education. But in Mexico, young girls are considered available, according to law and custom,” immigration expert Brenda Walker
wrote in 2007.
While the vast majority of Americans would be shocked by the cultural norms, which make this type of abomination commonplace throughout “our neighbor to the South.” Put very bluntly, pedophilia is actually protected by many of Mexico’s laws.
You see, the age of sexual consent throughout much of Mexico, including its capital city, is only 12-years of age.
Unfortunately, the culture of having sex with young girls is brought to this country by many Mexican men, along with their cheap, albeit illegal labor, and both real and potential votes.
An example of this attitude can be found in Mexican national Diego Lopez-Mendez, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old West Virginia girl. Through an interpreter, he told the court: “In the pueblo where I grew up, girls are usually married by 13-years old … . I was unaware of the nature of the offense or that it was a bad crime.”