TY Baker!
oldentimes - June 21, 2018, but relevant:
EXCLUSIVE: Letter from paramedic at Texas border reveals another side to immigration issue
I flew for Air Evac which has more border bases than any other air medical services in Texas. I was based out of South Texas and often covered shifts that were within viewing distance of the Mexican border. I love the Mexican people, their culture, and their customs. I married a woman from San Antonio who is of Mexican decent. My sons are half Hispanic. My heart is often broken seeing their plight as they take the ardent journey north for a better life.
It is heartbreaking to see such events unfold and nobody, from the Border Patrol, Texas Law Enforcement or Texas EMS professionals were happy to be tasked with such work. We did not abuse any children. Instead, we cared for them. We fed them and gave them water, clothes, medical care and comfort.
All of these kids were sick or ill. It might be something as simple as dehydration but often times it was more than that. Much more……..
Such as the 10 year old girl that I flew who had been raped no less than 10 times on her journey. Her private parts torn by the continued trauma inflicted each night of her stay in the dessert. Her screams and cries of mistrust still haunt me to this day when I think about it.
Then there was a little boy who was only 5 years old covered in scabies, flees, and abscesses with a broken jaw from being hit by a smuggler for crying.
There were many kids that were so malnourished and dehydrated that they could not hold any solid food down and were delirious from sun exposure. Most of these kids had never slept under a roof their entire lives. They certainly never slept in a bed as they often slept on the ground with animals in their home countries.
At the centers where these children were housed they cried aloud. Why wouldn’t they? Most had been on a journey that no human should ever go through. Most have never been able to trust a single soul their entire lives, even their parents. They were afraid of the future.
But what these professionals did at the centers was phenomenal work. They fed these kids. They immunized these kids. They LOVE these kids.
http://dennismichaellynch.com/exclusive-letter-from-paramedic-at-texas-border-reveals-another-side-to-immigration-issue/
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okay, thanks for that, Stephen King of the Bangor Daily News.
So far Spain is compying nicely:
SPAIN. WAKE UP. Traffickers capitalise on the Christmas holidays to ship human flesh to your shores. NGO vessel #OpenArms are complicit in this trade. 311 fighting age migrants just landed into port.
cst.
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1078593534276628480
BREAKING: Sky News: Explosion rocks tourist bus just south of Cairo, Egypt, near popular pyramids. Several people dead and injured.
cst.
https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1078703199840817153