Many recalled their own experience of migrating to the US, calling for better immigration practices and protection of asylum seekers
and Central America dead inside a truck trailer, locked and abandoned in the sweltering summer sun of south Texas.“I really felt it when I saw all the bodies on the ground,” he told the Guardian. “I’m pretty sure they’ve been on the road for months. Then they get here and die.”
“Give them visas,” he said at the edge of a police line around the crime scene where bodies had been piled the day before. “It should be a better system so this doesn’t happen.”Photograph: Eric Gay/AP Like many in this originally Hispanic and formerly Mexican city of 1.5 million, Olvera has family who moved here from Mexico, including without formal immigration processes. Here, the immigration debate hits close to the heart.
Bridges, a 40-year-old plumber who was born on an overseas US military base, said he often hears complaints that immigrant workers will take jobs from US workers. But he said he doesn’t think US workers would want the strenuous, dangerous and low-paying jobs that immigrants work.But the border today is farther from open than it’s ever been before. The last 20 years saw the explosion of border security after the 9/11 attacks.
“The phenomenon is not getting better,” said Roberto Marquez, who drove five hours from Dallas to set up his artwork at the site of the tragedy. “So our leaders should do something about it.”
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