With the latest round of Hurricane season starting up, many Latin@s on the Texas/Mexican border are especially nervous and it’s only partially to do with the weather.

From Latina Lista:

With all this activity, there is still “an elephant in the room” that no one has openly addressed yet — if evacuation becomes necessary, will the border patrol follow through on their threat of separating the undocumented from the general population?

Yes, that’s right, ICE may or may not be planning on checking the ID of people who are evacuating from a life threatening storm. In the past, ICE has stated that they will remove those with no ID from evacuation centers and put them in “secure” facilities to ride out the storm and wait for deportation proceedings. Which, of course, leaves many wondering, is it morally ethical to use life threatening situations to monitor human beings for potential wrong doing?

And are we creating conditions for a Texas version of New Orleans?

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