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When the government orders an evacuation of a city or state, one would expect that the government would be there to help.  However, government officials at the border will be slowing down the evacuation process in Texas.

McALLEN, Texas - Federal border agents say they will search for illegal immigrants at inland Texas checkpoints even during a hurricane evacuation, a plan state and local officials say could lead to disastrous delays and discourage some people from getting out.

Texas and federal officials have argued about the checkpoints roughly 75 miles from the border for years, but emergency managers only recently learned that the Border Patrol also plans to check the immigration status of people boarding buses at evacuation hubs in the Rio Grande Valley.

link: FoxNews

Is this the kind of support we want from the government in a stressful situation?  I think that an evacuation is urgent enough to forgo the check for illegal immigrants.  The government is essentially saying that they will not assist illegal immigrants when they are in life threatening situations.  Almost every emergency room in the nation is required to give stabilizing medical treatment to any person, whether they have insurance or if they are an illegal immigrant.  Would the process of an evacuation not be considered ’stabilizing medical treatment’?

Sorry Texas, that is just stupid.

Justin

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