ACLU Texas: Immigrants versus Alt-Facts in South Texas
Late last November on a Sunday morning, twelve days after the Presidential election of Donald Trump, the little South Texas town of La Joya, pop. 3985, was inaugurating its brand new outdoor-sports complex.
Fito Salinas, an elderly man with a big smile and neat mustache, had brought a barbecue pit to celebrate. As he grilled tacos, men from a local baseball league played on the nearby diamond.
There was one oversight—the park’s bathrooms weren’t open. That didn’t faze Sandra Rodriguez, a young woman sitting in the bleachers with her six-year-old son, Jiovanni, and some other young children. She grabbed her purse and a bag of toilet tissue, and took the kids just beyond the fence, to pee in nearby brush.
Sandra had no idea that her short walk to the bushes would result in a personal and community fiasco. It’s one that may have foreshadowed the harsh immigration enforcements—including misinformation, disinformation, and outright falsehoods—that have emerged nationwide since Trump took office.
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