Agua

 

 

When we were kids, back when the only thing in car radiators was water, we would see barrels along the side of mountain roads; water to put in the radiator when your car overheated going up the hill.

 

In current times, in South Texas where there are no hills, there are blue water barrels along the side of the highway.  These are not for radiators.

 

 

These are to try to help the undocumented people, who have made it this far, stay alive out in the brutal hot ranchlands.  The people may be breaking our rules, but they are still people that live and breathe and dream, until they can’t anymore.  Human rights groups put these barrels out.  Ranchers put them out so they will find fewer dead bodies on their remote properties.  That’s how it is here.  The better we get at our highway checkpoints at apprehending migrants, the more the migrants are pushed to higher risk routes, and the body count escalates.  Unintended consequences of our efforts to control a situation that defies control.  It’s not just here.  There is a global surge of human migration.