KERRVILLE, Texas (Gray News/AP) – Volunteer firefighters from Acuña, Mexico, are helping rescue and recover teams in Texas after flash floods killed more than 80 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend and left others still missing.
According to a protective services government agency in Mexico, the Civil Protection Water Rescue Team and Cure Firefighters teamed up with the nonprofit organization Foundation 911 to assist in search efforts in Kerrville, Texas.
If I were a Mexican firefighter I would refuse to cross the border into the US
Don’t fucking help us! Your lives are in danger here! Especially in the shit hole that is Texas.
In the current political climate, I can’t understand how they got visas to enter the country and then, with appropriate visas, how/why ICE allowed them to cross the border. Of course I understand how it’s possible, it just seems weirdly wrong.
Has ICE found out?
Why in the world would you help these hateful bigots. They may literally capture you while you are there and send you to El Salvador to die in jail.
This thinking is so dangerous… Help others when they need it, it makes the world better.
The problem with NOT helping a racist jerk in distress:
- Not all USA residents are racist jerks.
- Racism and being a jerk are generally learned behaviours, not innate.
- How do you tell a racist jerk from a non-racist, non-jerk?
- Sometimes being a good example encourages a person to not be a racist jerk.
- A racist jerk might help you one day.
- Etc
The lesson is that we’re all people.
They are just better people. Which isn’t really hard when you neighbour that country
When people you have maligned and persecuted show you compassion and give you aid, that should be humiliating and humbling.
Unfortunately it probably won’t have that effect on the people who need it.
Of course not, they are owed this because of oppression or something. Fuck.
They are not afraid of being imprisoned and deported?
Sounds like a risky move
Sounds like selflessness and true heroism. This is deep. I think in ten or twenty year for now, I’ll remember that Mexican people help the US people at the time, the US government wanted them dead.
Rapists and criminals amirite?
