Posted on 08/11/2025 12:08:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Immigrant aid organizations in Central Texas worry that, amid an immigration crackdown, undocumented victims of the deadly floods are not receiving assistance.
Leo, a 14-year-old undocumented immigrant, had joined volunteers searching the banks of the Guadalupe River four days after the deadly Central Texas floods of July 4 when he slipped and fell into treacherous waters contaminated with corpses and debris. He emerged with flesh and finger bones exposed on a left hand that had been nearly severed.
For an excruciating hour, his parents were gripped by fear. What if the hospital staff asked for immigration documents? Finally, they broke down and brought him for care, the family said.
“They are going to take him away,” Gabriela, Leo’s 42-year-old mother, recalled thinking, as doctors wheeled her son away. Both asked to be identified only by their first names because of their immigration statuses.
Local, state and federal officials have said repeatedly that aid and medical assistance are flowing into Texas Hill Country in the wake of floods that killed at least 135 people and injured scores more.
But immigrant rights groups and religious volunteers in the region worry that undocumented residents in Central Texas, such as Leo and his family, are not getting what they need amid immigration crackdowns that have pressed a large migrant community underground. “A lot of people are afraid,” said Sonya De La Garza-Walker, a member of the League of United Latin American Citizens in San Antonio, a Latino civil rights organization that has assisted in the devastated areas. “They think that asking for help may call attention to themselves.”
Officials in Kerr County did not respond to requests for comment about the area’s undocumented community. The county, at the heart of the Texas Hill Country, suffered...
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Go home—and take your families with them.
Feel good story of the day.
It is an illegal immigration crackdown.
Why does the New York Times conflate illegal with legal?
If your kid is illegal, Gabby, you are as well.
Because they're a bunch of lying, cheating, thieving bastard sons of a thousand fathers ...
Since you asked.
I’m sure that’s not true, and if they’d only come out and ask for assistance, they’d get exactly what they need…..a ticket back to whatever third world hellhole they came from.
Aid is paid for by US taxpayers and should be given to US citizens. Anyone else that happens to be here is on their own.
Illegal aliens, NOT “undocumented immigrants.”
Like calling a bank robber an undocumented customer making a withdrawal.
Vaya con Dios, pero vaya.
I...Don’t...Care!
In a word “GO HOME!”.
The only aid they need is a step up on the plane.
“A lot of people are afraid,”
they should be since they broke the law, and now a situation they never would have been in if they had not broken the law, is exposing them, and they may face consequences from continuing to break the law of being illegally in the country.
simple solution, but they choose not to take it and instead remain, and be “afraid”
I'm not opposed to illegal aliens receiving assistance back across the border.
Tagline explains that..
“ Why does the New York Times conflate illegal with legal?”
It’s because they are the New York Times, they have been promoting propaganda for at least 80 years.
Nothing to choose!
Slither back to the 3rd world s_hole you snuck in from...
GTFO, or provide feed for the FL alligators...
OUT! GET OUT!
Enough of these sob stories about loser alien invaders and their “families”.
These parasites are ILLEGAL.
GET OUT...and never be allowed to return.
You are despised here.
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