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.
The Federal Government is directly at odds with the Texas National Guard’s perimeter in the river and on the sides of the channel, but whether or not what he is doing is illegal has been stuck in the court system since last year. The divide between the two groups has grown so large that Texas secessionists are more outspoken than any point in the last century.