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On the Border: The True Cost of Illegal Economic Migration
« on: September 30, 2022, 01:01:57 pm »
Texas Scorecard by  Sheena Rodriguez September 28, 2022

Is the risk greater than the potential reward?

So often, many Americans question how a parent or guardian could intentionally place young children in harm’s way for a chance at arriving to the United States. The common left-wing narrative paints an impoverished life of migrants in their respective home countries, fleeing unfathomable persecution, violence, and starvation. Reasonable bleeding hearts on all sides find themselves excusing the intentional child endangerment as an acceptable risk envisioning what they may be willing to sacrifice if their families were in similar depraved situations.

What if the most common scenario is far from the narrative Americans have been sold?

Texas Scorecard recently deployed a team to Texas’ southern border in the small remote Rio Grande Valley towns of Roma and La Joya. During the team’s many interviews, we encountered Sara and young Mattias.

Sara traveled from Guatemala with her grandson, Mattias, who is two years and nine months old.

We asked Sara about the journey to America and if she would encourage others to take similar routes. Sara quickly teared up and responded, saying it was horrible, she’d rather forget it, and wouldn’t recommend the journey to anyone.

Sara explained that she met and teamed up with one man and two juvenile males about a week into her journey. Since they were all from Guatemala, they decided to travel together to the U.S. It took her about 28 days to travel from Guatemala to the Texas Border, walking most of the journey.

According to Sara, the terrain was challenging and treacherous. She explained that she was not too concerned about food because the townspeople would feed them and other migrants as they passed. Sara explained how they often slept in the brush and parks along the way and described men she referred to as “the bandits” they encountered along the way. Sara said the bandits go where the migrants sleep, often stealing from the groups and feeling around for women to rape. Sara also described that at one point, they were shot at by the bandits as they traveled through the brush.

After teaming with the man and male juveniles, she was raped by the bandits. The bandits told Sara to be quiet, not to make a scene, and said the assault would be over quickly. The man she teamed up with told her the bandits would kill him if he tried to stop them from raping her. She knew there was nothing she could do, and no one would try to stop the bandits from assaulting her.

Her grandson Mattias was present during the assault.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/state/on-the-border-the-true-cost-of-illegal-economic-migration/