Video shows Texas National Guard soldiers appearing to ignore a mother and baby’s pleas for help in the Rio Grande

  • Poayjay@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Missing a huge piece of information in the title and article: were they at least halfway across? Uniformed military members cannot cross the boarder conducting operations. As fucked as this situation is, Texas conducting military operations on Mexican soil is a whole lot worse. Given the tone of the article and the fact that they didn’t say, leads me to believe they were not on US soil and the guardsman could not do anything.

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      7 months ago

      On one hand I get what you’re saying, on the other hand is Mexico going to start a war with the US because a handful of National Guard members saved a mother and child from drowning in “their” water?

      I get that wars have started over more stupid shit, but I’d hope we have enough brain cells in the modern day to understand that that would be in no way an incursion or intentional act against Mexico.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, the US/Mexico border is not the North Korea/South Korea DMZ even if the GOP wants it to be.

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        7 months ago

        I’m pretty sure it’s more asking the lines of “if I cross the border to do this I’ll probably be dishonorablely discharged”.