Title: The Valley Reacts to DACA Loss and Resists with Anti-Border Wall City Resolutions | Sierra Club
Headings: The Valley Reacts to DACA Loss and Resists with Anti-Border Wall City Resolutions
The Valley Reacts to DACA Loss and Resists with Anti-Border Wall City Resolutions
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Content: People from here tend to refer to themselves as being from “the Valley,” rather than the specific tiny town named by a white settler. The towns are interdependent, with people driving on the daily across towns to visit family members and friends or to attend school or work. Our region is set apart by vast unpopulated lands and surrounded by US Border Patrol Customs Checkpoints which could soon result in the hostile demand of showing proof of citizenship, a discriminating action that is often required of people with certain skin tones more than others. These very checkpoints were kept open during Hurricane Harvey evacuations just last week, a cruel move in the midst of a catastrophic emergency situation. Our border region is very misrepresented in mainstream media and popular culture, often portrayed as a place of massive violence, military, and drugs. And while some of those things are present because the Border Patrol likes to fly around in helicopters, it does not stop us from going to school, working, hiking through our wildlife refuges along the Rio Grande River, and organizing to protect our region. Seven Border Towns Pass Anti-Border Wall Resolutions
The City of McAllen, Pharr, Sullivan City, Edinburg, Alamo, San Juan, and Palmview all had agendas including resolutions opposing the border wall, with some of the meetings taking place at the same time. Last Tuesday, they joined our other cities that have already passed resolutions: Brownsville, La Joya, Mission, Weslaco, and Hidalgo County. Tuesday’s first meeting took place at noon in McAllen.