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First responders in a Texas town are struggling to cope with the trauma of recovering bodies from the Rio Grande (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 107 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Honestly I'm surprised the right isn't clambering for a human hunting license as it is

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why would they do that? They'd rather get rid of all licenses for hunting than add more

[–] Birdie@thelemmy.club 11 points 8 months ago

I spoke with someone last week who wants armed drones at the border, ready to shoot to kill.

Man's inhumanity to man...a term coined in the 1700s and we still have not learned to value life.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, it needs to be licensed so the government can enforce you only hunting the right people

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

But then they could end up in a government database!

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Man, that's dark. But you're right

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

causing additional injury, death, or at minimum financial burden.

And trauma. Some of don't like killing things, even accidentally.

[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 73 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you think untangling children's corpses from razor wire is stressful, just imagine how stressful that was for the children.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

TBF they're unlikely to suffer from PTSD. Because they're dead.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 47 points 8 months ago

It's honestly like living with a teenager.

Texas: FUCK YOU we're our OWN SOVEREIGN NATION and can KILL MIGRANTS IF WE WANT TO AND WE'LL SECEDE IF YOU TRY TO STOP US

Also Texas: Can I have some money pls, this is upsetting what's happening

(And yes I know the city officials and first responders are not the same people threatening to secede. I'm not even saying they shouldn't have the money to try to provide good services to these additional victims of the carnage. I'm directing the sarcasm at the teenager-minded higher up officials who would be FUCKED without the aid and support of the wider US government they rely on so heavily, while at the same time they're constantly shitting on.)

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

I'm not sure which comedian said this, but its something like if you came from a shitty country and had to risk your life to come into America, you're automatically more American than most Americans that just came out of a pussy at the right time and place.

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Something something Prevention Through Deterrence.

The federal government does not care.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 10 points 8 months ago

The Federal Government is directly at odds with the Texas National Guard's perimeter in the river and on the sides of the channel, but whether or not what he is doing is illegal has been stuck in the court system since last year. The divide between the two groups has grown so large that Texas secessionists are more outspoken than any point in the last century.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Anti-poor policies is more hassle than cost-worthy...