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With the border so much in the news these days, and as the issue of President Trump’s wall continues to cause division among Americans, the following first-hand accounts of visits to the USA-Mexico border might help provide a better sense of what actually goes on there, and what the REAL CRISIS is. The FACT is, we need to find a humane solution to this humanitarian challenge.
"Migrant Children Were Asked to Draw Their Experiences in U.S. Custody. Here's What They Drew"
Time - July 4, 2019
"250 children living under inhumane conditions at Texas border facility,
doctors and attorneys say"
CBS News - June 21, 2019
"Trump: U.S., Mexico Reach Deal To Avoid New Tariffs"
Texas Public Radio - June 8, 2019. Updated Saturday at 10:30 a.m. ET
"Guatemalan Boy Dies at Border Station While Awaiting Move to a Shelter"
The New York Times - May 20, 2019
"Eleven-year-old ordered deported without her family"
Houston Chronicle - Updated April 12, 2019
"Trump Walks Back Threat To Close U.S. Border, Giving Mexico A '1-Year Warning'"
Texas Public Radio - April 4, 2019
"Pentagon Takes $1 Billion From Miliatary Personnel Account To Build Border Fence"
Texas Public Radio - March 27, 2019
"U.S. Continues to Separate Migrant Families Despite Rollback of Policy"
The New York Times - March 9, 2019
" ‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border"
The New York Times - March 3, 2019
"The Reality At The Border: Butterflies And The Border Wall"
Texas Public Radio - March 1 2019
TIME - February 14, 2019
"A Border Crash and the Blurry Line Between the U.S. and Mexico"
The New York Times - February 14, 2019
"I went to Tijuana to see Trump's manufactured border crisis"
ACLU - January 28, 2019
"Trump Worsens the Border Crisis"
The New York Times - January 17, 2019
"Where Does Illegal Immigration Mostly Occur? Here's What Data Tell Us"
Texas Public Radio - January 10, 2019