After a record-breaking year of migrant crossings, Eagle Pass is applying for a grant to help pay for therapy and other mental health services.
The crisis unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border since last year has spilled over into the fire engines and ambulances of a small Texas town.
First responders in Eagle Pass say they are overwhelmed and increasingly traumatized by what they see: parents drowned or dying, their children barely holding onto life after attempting to cross the Rio Grande.
The emotional strain on firefighters and EMTs has grown so great that city officials have applied for a state grant that would bring in additional mental health resources for front-line workers.
In many parts of the US we create paths for unwanted animals to cross freeways safely. Most are tunnels under, but sometimes it’s a crosswalk over. The idea is that no matter what we do, the animals are going to find a way to cross. We create the paths(at significant expense)so as to avoid unwanted death of the animal, and also to prevent people from hitting them at speed, causing additional injury, death, or at minimum financial burden.
I feel we should either treat these people like humans and help them (legalize their immigration), or treat them like animals and do at least a little bit to prevent them from causing further harm and financial burden. Treating them like terrorists seems to be the worst option.
Honestly I’m surprised the right isn’t clambering for a human hunting license as it is
I mean… They are.
So, about that…
causing additional injury, death, or at minimum financial burden.
And trauma. Some of don’t like killing things, even accidentally.
I’m sure the spikes and other barriers that were put there by the state of texas have nothing to do with the number of deaths.
Who did that joke? The one were not only is the US going to invade your country, destroy your infrastructure, install a puppet government, and burn your kids and women alive in mass bombings. They’re also going to return 10 years later to make movies about how murdering your people made their soldiers feel sad.
I feel like this is a rehash of that.
Frankie Boyle https://youtu.be/uZwuTI-V8SI
Anti-poor policies is more hassle than cost-worthy…
After a record-breaking year of migrant crossings
Hard no. Lemmy has told me this isn’t happening and it’s all GOP bullshit. There is no crisis. It’s not happening. Fingers in ears.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
Maybe liberals will listen if I frame it as a humanitarian crisis, which it fucking is. These are real human beings, who are experiencing real suffering. And there’s a shitload of them that our government and infrastructure is not able to cope with.
Point fingers and place blame as you please, but we have a situation that needs solutions yesterday. I don’t have answers, but neither am I playing these people as fake political pawns.
Almost always, perception lags reality.
We sit around and tut tut about climate change, upheavals droughts and uncertainties. What do we expect to happen, then?
