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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Don't fucking help us! Your lives are in danger here! Especially in the shit hole that is Texas.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I were a Mexican firefighter I would refuse to cross the border into the US

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh yeah I have no clue at all but can totally imagine that

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

free slave labor.

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I prefer "Alligator Auschwitz"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Not descriptive enough.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Rapists and criminals amirite?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

65% of that county (Bexar) voted for Biden. You were saying?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am talking about Texas not an individual county or city.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

They are just better people. Which isn't really hard when you neighbour that country

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They are not afraid of being imprisoned and deported?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Oh, absolutely. I just worry that American authorities won't see it that way.