1/24/20

By Patty Brown

This morning, the sound of a flight leaving the Brownsville Airport woke me up. I jumped up to view the tracking website I have been shown to see if I could determine where it was going. Sure enough, I could determine that it is a Swift Air flight going to Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport San Pedro Sula. Where is that? I wondered. A quick Internet search showed me it is in Honduras, and within 20 seconds, I learned this about its destination. Who is being transported there? We are American taxpayers funding the transport of undocumented immigrants to "the murder capital of the world," quite likely including some people seized by ICE who have been working and raising families in the United States for a long time. And maybe including people who NEVER actually entered the United States but came knocking on our door, asking for safety. This is US...the United States of America. From knowing how many people are here in person trying to fight against this sort of treatment and how many of our friends now understand how awful this action is...we are far from united on this issue. Make some calls today.