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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShe Stopped to Help Migrants on a Texas Highway. Moments Later, She Was Arrested.
MCALLEN, Tex. Teresa L. Todd pulled over one recent night on a dark West Texas highway to help three young Central American migrants who had flagged her down. Ms. Todd an elected official, government lawyer and single mother in a desert border region near Big Bend National Park said she went into total mom mode when she saw the three siblings, one of whom appeared to be very ill.
Struggling to communicate using her broken Spanish, Ms. Todd told the three young people to get out of the cold and into her car. She was phoning and texting friends for help when a sheriffs deputy drove up, followed soon by the Border Patrol. They asked me to step behind my car, and the supervisor came and started Mirandizing me, said Ms. Todd, referring to being read her Miranda rights. And then he says that I could be found guilty of transporting illegal aliens, and Im, like, What are you talking about?
Ms. Todd spent 45 minutes in a holding cell that night. Federal agents obtained a search warrant to examine her phone, and she became the focus of an investigation that could lead to federal criminal charges.
As the Trump administration moves on multiple fronts to shut down illegal border crossings, it has also stepped up punitive measures targeting private citizens who provide compassionate help to migrants good Samaritan aid that is often intended to save lives along a border that runs through hundreds of miles of remote terrain that can be brutally unforgiving.
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msongs
(67,509 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,257 posts)Instant Liberal
(66 posts)it's a good bet they aren't from around here. I would probably do the same thing though.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,257 posts)She saw 3 young people in trouble.
Brawndo
(535 posts)mainer
(12,038 posts)which supports efforts to stop migrants from dying. I just sent in my contribution. I hope you will too.
http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/
Hekate
(91,055 posts)I am utterly ashamed of my country.
MarvinGardens
(779 posts)Time for jury nullification.