Mexico Halts Migrants, but at What Cost? (Tissue Alert)
[Dallas News] 'A Human Wall for Trump' A handful of national guardsmen in a camouflaged pickup, including a soldier standing in the back, his finger on the trigger of a mounted assault weapon, lazily chase their targets along the banks of the Rio Grande.
The fugitives ‐ two women and their children ‐ stand no chance. They simply stop, their will and dreams broken, just feet from the border. U.S. Border Patrol agents watch from their side of the river as the Mexican guardsmen radio immigration officials to pick up their latest prey.
It's their job, and if they started doing it 40 years ago, we'd all be a lot better off.
One mother begins to sob in anguish: "This can't be. This can't be." When asked what will happen to the detained families, a soldier tersely replies: "They weren't apprehended, nor were they detained. They were rescued."
Then he kicks the dust from the ground and quietly adds, "I guess we stole their dreams."
Wait, I need another box of tissues.
"Mexico essentially built a human wall for Trump, since we can't police our own border at the price of our own dignity," said the Rev. Francisco Javier Calvillo, director of Juarez's Casa del Migrante migrant shelter.
Posted by: Bobby 2019-06-30 |