The Cries and Coughs in the Night: FAIR Border Trip March 2021
On FAIR’s fact-finding mission to the southwest border in McAllen, Texas, the thing that was most jarring was the terrible toll President Biden’s self-described “compassionate” immigration policies are taking on the migrants themselves. What we witnessed were signs of exhaustion and stress: Coughing from dozens of the border crossers mixed in with the mewling of infants and toddlers who had all just journeyed across difficult terrain and likely put their lives in the hands of smugglers to arrive in the dead of night just to willingly give themselves up to border patrol agents.