EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Community activists are launching a public engagement campaign to counter what they perceive as the growing “militarization” of the Texas-Mexico border.
It includes a two-week span of marches and community meetings called “Journeys of Resistance” in El Paso, Laredo, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas and Austin from May 3-17. A database to document abuse and demand accountability from government agencies also is in development.
The so-called Texas Community Resiliency Agenda campaign comes after the deployment of thousands of active-duty troops to the border and a Trump administration push for local governments to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The activists allege this is sowing fear among families of mixed immigration status and painting a distorted picture of the region…