How the Pro-Hispanic Media is Manipulating the Pedro Guzman Story

Pedro Guzman has some explaining to do. Pedro Guzman was arrested trying to board a plane he had no connection with, on a secured airstrip in the California desert he had sneaked onto, in a truck that was not his. But according to Guzman's mother, what happened next is "the government's fault". However, closer analysis of the story shows some errors that might have bypassed the entire incident. If only Pedro Guzman's family had faced the facts sooner, all of this trauma could have been avoided.

Pedro Guzman has been the focus of a manhunt by his family and followed by news media in Southern California. Now Guzman has popped up, claiming to have walked from Tijuana to Calexico because "unfriendly' border guards would allow him to pass into the United States. But the story of Pedro Guzman and his mother, Maria Carbajal, shows many different sides of the same coin. Carbajal and the ACLU are suing over her lost son's errant journey abroad.

Media reports concentrate on the terrible way Guzman survived, but only touch on the mental incapacities that led him there. Newspaper accounts construct a profile of a man enabled in his deficiencies of socialization to "pass' in the everyday world, until an episode occurred. Family, friends, co-workers and loved ones often miss or deny signs of mental incapacity in relatives. But Pedro Guzman's family seemed to acknowledge Guzman's probable dysfunctional while looking the other way.

Media coverage of the Guzman incident stresses racial profiling, instead of concentrating attention on the psychological implications of Guzman's arrest. Pedro Guzman did not go into this incident a fully functional person. Yet the very instabilty of Pedro Guzman, without benefit of undergoing psycholoigcal treatment, would seem to bolster the family's claim. Often, when a loved one is operating on the borderline of everyday mobility and processing, loved ones deny there is a problem or the seriousness of it. But the family of the lost man seem stunned and astounded by the mental change in their lost lamb.