First responders in a Texas town are struggling to cope with the trauma of recovering bodies from the Rio Grande
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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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.
Honestly I'm surprised the right isn't clambering for a human hunting license as it is
Why would they do that? They'd rather get rid of all licenses for hunting than add more
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.
Well, it needs to be licensed so the government can enforce you only hunting the right people
But then they could end up in a government database!
Man, that's dark. But you're right
I mean… They are.
About that....
https://news.yahoo.com/republican-bill-let-az-ranchers-211256633.html
So, about that…
https://lemmy.world/post/12416469
And trauma. Some of don't like killing things, even accidentally.
So we send them back when they get over.
The idea isn't to let them in. It's to avoid unnecessary death, because they're going to try regardless.
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.
How's that relate to the first responders?
Who do you think goes out on these calls? I’d guess most people are injured and then perish.
Not sure what you mean. How does the experience of the first responder, and their responsibilities on a call, relate to political or other border patrol concerns?
Because they'd be the ones cleaning up after those who put in the objects causing death or injuries
Thank you for connecting the dots for them.
Bruh, that was hard to read.
Hopefully they get it now
Narrator: They did not
Right but why is this being discussed related to an article about their mental health? They had nothing to do with creating the barrier. The top comment implies the terrible border is some surprise detail, or that they are involved with that. They are just trying to help people
Specifically the "nothing to do with" as if it's a gotcha statement.
If you think untangling children's corpses from razor wire is stressful, just imagine how stressful that was for the children.
TBF they're unlikely to suffer from PTSD. Because they're dead.
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.)
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.
Frankie Boyle https://youtu.be/uZwuTI-V8SI
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.
Something something Prevention Through Deterrence.
The federal government does not care.
Anti-poor policies is more hassle than cost-worthy...
Hard no. Lemmy has told me this isn't happening and it's all GOP bullshit. There is no crisis. It's not happening. Fingers in ears.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
Maybe liberals will listen if I frame it as a humanitarian crisis, which it fucking is. These are real human beings, who are experiencing real suffering. And there's a shitload of them that our government and infrastructure is not able to cope with.
Point fingers and place blame as you please, but we have a situation that needs solutions yesterday. I don't have answers, but neither am I playing these people as fake political pawns.
Almost always, perception lags reality.
We sit around and tut tut about climate change, upheavals droughts and uncertainties. What do we expect to happen, then?
We have these things called border crossings, where anyone can cross safely and legally, maybe they should try crossing there instead of entering the country illegally.
Yup, totally good and useful to kill people with deadly infrastructure over this. I think we should set it up so that people going in the exit doors of a businesses should fall into a river with barbed wire and die too. The world would be a better place. /s
Maybe we should consider conservatism illegal and star throwing rightwingers on barbed wire