Right now,
all that water is stored up at the Elephant Butte Reservoir in New
Mexico. Really, there is just a little trickle in the river channel not
more than a couple of inches deep. Thanks to the Border Network for Human Rights and thanks to the
Border Patrol who allowed this, they were able to organize 300 families
from Mexico and El Paso who were allowed to meet--one family at a
time--in the middle of that river channel, both sides clearly
identified so there would not be any security or immigration issues. And those families got to spend a total of 3 minutes together,
families who, in some cases, had not seen each other for decades. A
young woman
posted on Facebook that she drove down from Oklahoma City to see her
dad who she had not seen in 10 years.
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