The AP is reporting that if Arizona law SB 1070 Goes Into Effect Thursday, Mexico will send human rights inspectors to monitor all large border crossings including Reynosa, Mexico. Mexico's National Human Rights Commission is claiming, "The implementation of the Arizona Law SB1070 represents a threat to migrants' full exercise of their human rights."
Reynosa, just recovering from recent flooding and long border crossing lines will now have another potential area of conflict.
The H.I.T. Team was in contact with our partner, David Rodriguez in Reynosa, today. We have been reading and hearing a lot of information about Reynosa and the surrounding towns in the media, but it was great to hear first hand how things are in Reynosa currently. Rodriguez stated that "things are not as bad as they were a month ago. [Everything was] very scary a month ago." He has been crossing the border 2 or 3 times a week now, and the organization he runs is working on completing house number 8.
Since 1994 Faith Ministry has been building houses in Mexican towns helping close to five thousand people. Their WE CONNECT mission teams cross the border from America into the poorest of poor Mexican communities and work with the local people to build homes for the families which need it the most. What most Americans do not realize is that just below Texas are third world conditions in some cases where families live in cardboard boxes, children do not attend school, and medical care is rarely available.
