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Their arrests come two days after three were arrested at the
Democratic Partyheadquarters in Dallas, where they were also
protesting militarization.
About 300 people people flooded 6th Street in Austin just before
rush hour.
They shut down traffic, blocking cars with giant cardboard
fences - representingthe border wall. Protestors demonstrated in
front of the fence and handed outleaflets with information on the
humanitarian crisis of migrant deaths at theborder.
Militarization forces migrants into the hands of criminals who
promise to getthem to the U.S., but who often abuse, exploit or
abandon them. Those makingthe journey alone are pushed into the
most dangerous, most remoteareas. Falfurrias, Texas is one such
area where the number of bodies isoverwhelming the small police
force there.
The protest was a die-in. Think sit-in.
With faces painted to represent the hundreds who die in the
desert, protestorslaid down in front of the cardboard fence and
stopped moving or responding topeople around them.
Police were eventually called and had to carry each limp
protestor off the streetbefore arresting them.
As protestors staged the die-in, the Senate was taking a vote to
pass their immigration reform package. The deal was poisoned Monday
with the adoptionof the Corker-Hoeven amendment. The amendment
represents a concession tothe border-enforcement-first crowd and
will double Border Patrol ranks, doublethe border wall, bring 18
border drones and new Black Hawk helicopters plus anarray of
military weapons and surveillance technology. The deal was touted
as away to get to 70 votes in the Senate. The amendment passed with
only 67.
Today's event is the last in a two-week long statewide caravan
for citizenshipand accountable enforcement that began in El Paso.
Caravaners marched intooffices of John Cornyn and Ted Cruz in
Harlingen, San Antonio and Dallas. OnWednesday, about 50 people
shut down Democratic Party headquarters inDallas - leading to the
arrest of three caravaners.
The inclusion of militarization in the immigration reform deal
means it is nolonger about families and American values, the
protestors argue. Carryingmessages that compared the U.S.-Mexico
border to the Korean DMZ, andasked "Is this reform?"
After their friends were arrested, the crowd then went to the
jail to protest for thequick release of "the Texas Six."
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The #Texas4CIR Caravan is a two-week long caravan that will
visit 16 Texas cities and involvethousands of Texans, showing how
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and video of the entire Caravan available at
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