There was a man working in latin america (forget the exact country) and he worked for $2 a
day. One pound of meat would cost him $1.50. His family was starving, that was the only job he could et either because he didn't have money growing up to get an education or because of something with the government. His only choice was to travel 1500 miles to get up to Arizona and illegally cross the border and get a janitorial job. He spend all of his life's savings getting there. But now he does not have enough equpiment to get there, and he is not so sure about taking the journey because of another situation.
There was a group travelling up through the desert. They were told the journey would take 4 or 5 hours by their guides (to which they paid thousands of dollars to be led into AZ). Naturally 8 hours had gone by and they were nowhere near the end. One woman started shaking and having breathing problems. The guides gave her medicine (probably illegal stimulants) and her heart sped up so eventually they had to rest in a shady spot to help her calm down and rest. Soon another woman she was travelling with started shaking as well. They sat for about half an hour before the rest of the group decided to go on. Four of the men decided they could not leave the women there alone so they waited, risking their lives and their chance of making it to Phoenix.
The women's conditions were getting worse. Two of the men decided to go on ahead and get help. The remaining two waited. And while they waited the two women died. They tried resuscitation, hydrating them, and all sorts of things but they could not save them. They realized they were in over their head and walked two hours back to a road they had come across and flagged down Border Patrol. Border Patrol got them under shade, gave them water, and began searching for the bodies of the two women. Unfortunately a monsoon hit before they could find them to they returned to base until morning.
The next morning after 4 hours of searching they finally came across the wash where the two women were. One was lying down in a normal sleeping position, except you could see the froth coming out of her mouth and the skin on her limbs burned black. The other woman was in an unnatural rag doll position with similar burns and froth on the mouth. They were able to identify only one of the bodies. She was returned to her family for burial, but the other was given the name of Jane Doe and buried in a public cemetery in southern Arizona.
The men had hung their backpacks on a tree near the wash. A passing group of illegal migrants had apparently came across the bodies because the backpacks had been propped under the women's heads in good will.
Yes, it's illegal. Yes, we can't let everybody in or we'll have a problem. But we can't just let these people starve to death?
Want to solve world hunger? Start by helping illegal migrants so they don't need to be illegal. Allow them to come into the States for a brief period of time to make some money and send it back. Otherwise we'll be just like the policeman on Les Miserables.
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