Remember when President Trump went to visit the border in McAllen, Texas in January and the narrative was that he was going to hype a “manufactured crisis”?
Trump is now in McAllen, Texas to hype up his proposed border wall. The wall is nothing more than a manufactured crisis and a divisive symbol of fear.
The real crisis is the horrific violence and persecution faced by desperate people and families who have fled home. ?????????? https://t.co/Ov8i4rDWoL
— Amnesty International (@amnestyusa) January 10, 2019
And remember Jim Acosta’s travel log showing us how there was no crisis in McAllen?
All quiet on this stretch of the border ahead of Trump’s visit to McAllen TX area. pic.twitter.com/cJ9tBwdCSd
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 10, 2019
No crisis here!
The steel slats don’t run the entire length of the border in the McAllen area. We found one part where there is a chain link fence. Occasionally migrants come thru but residents say their community is quite safe. pic.twitter.com/ivpPl0XT48
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 10, 2019
Some residents also wanted America to know just how safe their town is:
Folks in McAllen have put up a sign reminding Trump that this is one of the safest places in America. https://t.co/r8W3oopy3F
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 10, 2019
You see, the residents don’t “see the criminal migrants the president warned about” so they’re not a problem:
A resident of the border city Trump is visiting today says she doesn’t see the criminal migrants the president warned about in his Oval Office speech. https://t.co/HpBCoH9zR9
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) January 10, 2019
Which bring us to today’s New York Times and this absolutely horrific article on how female migrants were stashed in a home in McAllen, Texas, drugged and repeatedly raped:
In 2014, Melvin, a 36-year-old mother of 3, had crossed into the U.S. from her native Guatemala, and was led to a house in McAllen, Texas. For weeks, the men she had paid to get her safely to America drugged her with pills and cocaine and raped her. https://t.co/DIKLpFe7mY pic.twitter.com/KvZY4tV4hS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 3, 2019
From the article:
MCALLEN, Tex. — It was dark in the stash house where they kept her, the windows covered so no one could see inside. At first, the smugglers had her cook for the other migrants who had recently crossed illegally into the United States. Then they took her to a room upstairs, locked the door and began taking turns with her.
It was the summer of 2014, and Melvin, a 36-year-old mother of three, had just completed the journey from her native Guatemala, crossing the Rio Grande on a raft before being led to the house in the Texas border city of McAllen.
For weeks in that locked room, the men she had paid to get her safely to the United States drugged her with pills and cocaine, refusing to let her out even to bathe. “I think that since they put me in that room, they killed me,” she said. “They raped us so many times they didn’t see us as human beings anymore.”
Read the whole thing here.
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