But they waited and welcomed everyone who arrived, and helped them on their way. There’s an amazing group of people here, and I will be sharing their stories soon. But here’s the latest, the part I need you to know:
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This week, it’s been eerily quiet. 6 on Monday. 2 yesterday. 3 today. Where are all the migrants?
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Yesterday, Dr. Claudia Mercado, the local physician who put the clinic together shared photos of migrants walking back into Mexico, as well as photos from the other side of the border of children sleeping on pizza boxes and people seeking shelter under bridges in Mexico.
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We believe it is because of the new policy forcing people to await their asylum cases in Mexico. Here’s the problems:
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1. These are not Mexican citizens, they come from all over Central America. We are dumping them in a country they do not know with no food, water, money, phone, or shelter. They know NO ONE and are not being taken to shelters. They are walking & ending up in parks & under bridges
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2. They sold everything in their home countries to make this trip. They have no resources at all.
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3. The part of Mexico they are being pushed to is very dangerous. This is a major passageway for the drug trade and cartels are everywhere. We are sending vulnerable people with no resources into the hands of these cartels, putting them at risk for rape, torture, and murder.
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In addition to this issue, our government is determined to make them as miserable here as possible. The City of Laredo agreed to house migrants on this side of the border in vacant government buildings with air conditioning for $1 for 18 months. The feds said no.
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Replying to @DrChristineMann
are those tents being erected in for-profit centers?
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I’m not sure, but a friend who worked for one of these companies posted this: We used to set up these fancy tents for storm response. It’s true they are nice and sturdy as tents go but they are expensive. A 60’ x 60’ tent ran about 100,000 per month in 2016.
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NOT including AC and generators to run AC and lights. Those look like 15 and 20 foot sections - 40 to 60 feet deep. Just the sections shown in photos would have cost over $500,000 per month, 3 years ago. Now add generators, HVAC units, lighting and fuel to run generators and
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Replying to @DrChristineMann @ReluctantActvst
you can easily double to 1 million per month vs 1 dollar. Remember my pricing is old but I bet i know who is building those tent cities. Someone I stopped using because he was too expensive. Makes me sick. The waste for no good reason
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it's really hard to imagine that even conservatives could be ok with this insanely wasteful spending. the mismanagement is terrible and I can only imagine who it is they plan on locking up in them aside from the migrants. Thank you so much
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