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-Land of the Free
Mexico Halts Migrants, but at What Cost? (Tissue Alert)
2019-06-30
[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

#6  Tantburg

Or Rantburg, even. Yesterday was a long day, today I clearly am still recovering.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-06-30 22:57  

#5  "Part 2" - thanks to the dog - is in the hopper for tomorrow.

Now I understand why Tantburg auto-labelled it as a duplication. I’ll fix it and add a reference to Part I here. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-06-30 22:37  

#4  Laughing this hard has always brought on the tears.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-06-30 17:27  

#3  "Part 2" - thanks to the dog - is in the hopper for tomorrow.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-06-30 15:57  

#2  So they're doing a good job. The article goes on to say :

But López Obrador still enjoys high approval ratings. A recent poll in Mexico's El Financiero newspaper showed a majority of Mexicans — 65 percent — approve of efforts to stop migrants from crossing through Mexico without proper documents. And 68 percent approve of the use of the national guard to do the job.

All the boo hoo hoo in the world is not going to convince both the Mexicans and Americans of this 'evil border control' bullshit.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-30 15:37  

#1  Supposed to be tomorrow, and there was more from the other point of view, if you didn't drown in your tears. But the dog barked and my finger twitched.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-06-30 14:08  

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