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Firefighters from Mexico join response efforts to catastrophic Texas floods

c/world · u/bytesonbike@discuss.online · 167 points

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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.

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u/njm1314@lemmy.world · 3 points

Isn't there a concern though that by coming they draw attention to those family members? I for one wouldn't be shocked to find out that ice is monitoring them and who they make contact with.

u/burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org · 11 points

I think a lot of them might actually have family in the US. By coming to the US and helping you’re probably gonna save a lot of Mexican/immigrant lives too or lives of people who don’t hate you in general, as much as I wanna agree with you

u/GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 points

free slave labor.

you can call conservatives many things, but they're especially cheap and ethically challenged.

u/Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 6 points

That is what I was thinking. The workers would be sent to Alligator Alcatraz Concentration (soon to be death) Camp pronto quick and govt will says oops my bad nothing we can do about it now.

u/shalafi@lemmy.world · -2 points

OK, Trump beat Harris by 14% points. That makes all 31 million Texans hateful bigots. Imagine if I said the same of *any* other group. I'd be banned of the entire site if I said, Jews, blacks, LGBT, women, whatever are a bunch of X.

u/non_burglar@lemmy.world · 9 points

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:

1. Not all USA residents are racist jerks.

2. Racism and being a jerk are generally learned behaviours, not innate.

3. How do you tell a racist jerk from a non-racist, non-jerk?

4. Sometimes being a good example encourages a person to not be a racist jerk.

5. A racist jerk might help you one day.

6. Etc

The lesson is that we're all people.

u/astrsk@fedia.io · 21 points

Of course not, they are owed this because of oppression or something. Fuck.

u/pseudo@jlai.lu · 6 points

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.

u/NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 61 points

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.

u/MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 41 points

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.

u/GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca · 22 points

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.