KERRVILLE, Texas (Gray News/AP) – Volunteer firefighters from Acuña, Mexico, are helping rescue and recover teams in Texas after flash floods killed more than 80 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend and left others still missing.

According to a protective services government agency in Mexico, the Civil Protection Water Rescue Team and Cure Firefighters teamed up with the nonprofit organization Foundation 911 to assist in search efforts in Kerrville, Texas.

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Don’t fucking help us! Your lives are in danger here! Especially in the shit hole that is Texas.

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Why in the world would you help these hateful bigots. They may literally capture you while you are there and send you to El Salvador to die in jail.

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65% of that county (Bexar) voted for Biden. You were saying?

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I am talking about Texas not an individual county or city.

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OK, Trump beat Harris by 14% points. That makes all 31 million Texans hateful bigots. Imagine if I said the same of any other group. I’d be banned of the entire site if I said, Jews, blacks, LGBT, women, whatever are a bunch of X.

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This thinking is so dangerous… Help others when they need it, it makes the world better.

The problem with NOT helping a racist jerk in distress:

  1. Not all USA residents are racist jerks.
  2. Racism and being a jerk are generally learned behaviours, not innate.
  3. How do you tell a racist jerk from a non-racist, non-jerk?
  4. Sometimes being a good example encourages a person to not be a racist jerk.
  5. A racist jerk might help you one day.
  6. Etc

The lesson is that we’re all people.

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They are just better people. Which isn’t really hard when you neighbour that country

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Rapists and criminals amirite?

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They are not afraid of being imprisoned and deported?

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If I were a Mexican firefighter I would refuse to cross the border into the US

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I think a lot of them might actually have family in the US. By coming to the US and helping you’re probably gonna save a lot of Mexican/immigrant lives too or lives of people who don’t hate you in general, as much as I wanna agree with you

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Isn’t there a concern though that by coming they draw attention to those family members? I for one wouldn’t be shocked to find out that ice is monitoring them and who they make contact with.

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Oh yeah I have no clue at all but can totally imagine that

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