Big News. Guatemala prohibited inbound flights. Initially except for deportation flights. One boarded this morning in Brownsville for Guatemala but everyone was then taken off and the full busses left as did the ICE workers.

Travel restriction. Meaningless for deportation flights so far. No one cares about these people. Observed three busses of human beings boarded in shackles to a plane headed for Guatemala, a country that said they would restrict all incoming flights from other countries...but not deportation flights.

Suspended: Witness at the Border

These are hard times, and the specter of the Coronavirus hangs over the vulnerable in a way that we can barely allow ourselves to pronounce, much less write it down and make it even more real. Imagine the scenarios, the way this plays out for those trapped at the border, and in prisons that have walls, as well, and I will imagine still another that is haunting me as I write.