After a record-breaking year of migrant crossings, Eagle Pass is applying for a grant to help pay for therapy and other mental health services.

The crisis unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border since last year has spilled over into the fire engines and ambulances of a small Texas town.

First responders in Eagle Pass say they are overwhelmed and increasingly traumatized by what they see: parents drowned or dying, their children barely holding onto life after attempting to cross the Rio Grande.

The emotional strain on firefighters and EMTs has grown so great that city officials have applied for a state grant that would bring in additional mental health resources for front-line workers.

  • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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    399 months ago

    Who did that joke? The one were not only is the US going to invade your country, destroy your infrastructure, install a puppet government, and burn your kids and women alive in mass bombings. They’re also going to return 10 years later to make movies about how murdering your people made their soldiers feel sad.

    I feel like this is a rehash of that.