Beto O'Rourke leads protest against separation of immigrant families
Source: ElPasoTimes
Hundreds of people from across the region and other parts of the country joined U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, as he led a protest Sunday in Tornillo against the separation of immigrant families.
O'Rourke said, "We're wanting to make sure that everyone in this country knows what is happening here, in their name, in Tornillo, where kids have traveled 2,000 miles, some alone, some with their parents, are being held in detention camps, tent cities that have just been constructed over the course of this last week."
He added, "We want to make sure we help this country to make the right decision, and part of that is knowing what's going on in the first place."
He said, "This is a decision for the country to make. Either we are going to be a country of detention camps for kids, of walls, of sending the National Guard to the border, or we are going to be better than that. But it's not decided by any means, and though we've been able to figure it out in the past, doesn't mean we're going to figure it out this time. It's on us. No one is going to do this for us.
Read more: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2018/06/17/beto-orourke-leads-protest-against-separation-immigrant-families-tornillo-tent-city-children/708562002/
Senator Joe Kennedy is also participating in the protest.
GOP Congressman Will Hurd says that the Tornillo tent city, now with a capacity of 400, could expand to 4,000 beds for immigrant children.
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Tornillo, Texas is somewhere in the desert where people don't go about 20 miles outside of El Paso. I've been in El Paso and Juarez, the rest is BFE to the outside world. This concentration tent facility will be somewhere outside Tornillo.
This picture of the Tornillo area doesn't show the killer summer heat out here. A child just collapsed at bat, from the heat, at our grandson's baseball game in Arkansas (we were following on line). An ambulance took him to the hospital to make sure he was stable. It's full summer in the southwest. These children will be forced to shelter all day inside tents, with temperatures outside routinely over 100 degrees as summer progresses.
This is OUR atrocity and OUR shame.
which grows in the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis_pubescens
We have the collective wisdom of years with our greats to lead the way, guard their path and hand these two the keys.
But wait..I have to have my fav Sen Kamala in the line-up too.
We have A LOT of superior 2020 candidates.
I do love where these two are taking the future, however!
It is time.
