#p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 Letter From the Border: New Crisis is the Old Crisis https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/22/may-see-kids-letter-border/ Ana* arrives at the makeshift shelter, ten miles away from the Texas border, with detention papers in one hand and a badly sunburned infant in the other. She’s been wearing the same pair of pink pants and filthy white shirt for twenty days. A group of volunteer nuns sort through Ana’s papers and try to distract her wailing son with a raccoon hand puppet’s herky-jerky movements. A few nights ago, Ana crossed illegally into the United States from Guatemala. Her husband paid a coyote $4,000 dollars to smuggle Ana and their son son through the lowland jungles of southern Mexico, up the San Pedro river to the Texas border. “A gang was after us,” Ana says in a daze, digging her knuckles into her cheeks to stay awake. She and her child were just released from a 48-hour stay at a detention center where it was too cold to sleep...