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: Immigrant families from our community call for continued resistance and action, so that’s what we did. When the DACA protest ended, we organized, mobilized, and carpooled to seven different City Council meetings where resolutions opposing the border wall were the hot agenda item. About the Rio Grande Valley
The Rio Grande Valley is a region of small towns in South Texas with a unique cultural identity. Located along the Rio Grande River and the Gulf of Mexico, it’s home to almost 2 million people. The majority of the population is latino, of which 28,000 are DACA recipients. 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.