A Feminist Report From The U.S.-Mexico Border

A Mexican feminist living in the United States wanted to know what was really going on down at the Southern border, so she went to find out for herself

A few days later, my group of scrappy, passionate, and dedicated volunteers and I are hard at work at a respite center in the Rio Grande Valley. Every day, ICE releases hundreds of asylum seekers from the nearby “Ursula” Detention Center in McAllen, TX—the largest immigration processing center run by U.S. Border Patrol. Volunteers at the independently run respite center take them in and give them meals, clothes, and a place to shower.

One day, between food service shifts, I notice a woman sitting in a row of plastic chairs. She has a youthful face, wavy brown hair, and a baby who alternates between vomiting on the floor and bouncing in her lap. I notice how happy he is between puke sessions. I grab cleaning supplies and wipe up the floor around her, introducing myself as a volunteer. The baby is one year old and has been throwing up since Mexico, she says. He is unbothered and continues to smile.

I try to keep a calm face as she continues to explain. Engulfed in dirty water and trapped, she used all her strength to throw her baby boy to the other side. She says he somehow held on to a fence—even she can’t explain it. Once she saw him securely reach the other side, she tells me, she resigned herself to the fact that she was about to die.

She sleeps at the shelter overnight and I come back the next morning and greet her—the baby boy still bouncing happily on her lap. I walk her over to the bus station across the street and help her carry the bags I made for her, realizing she can’t hold her son and the bags with her belly bouncing in front of her.

I talk to a father fleeing war who told his daughter they were leaving as a birthday present to her, and that they would reach the United States by her birthday. They didn’t make it in time, though, because they passed out in a covered truck that got overheated and ran low on oxygen somewhere in Mexico. As we casually chat about his trek in the supply bar, an English-speaking volunteer offers him money, and at first, he declines.

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