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.
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?