The Spring Break Border Walk from Roma to Brownsville has been wonderfully chronicled by Matthew Webster’s Walk Diary at Smart Borders
“It was hotter than a human heart, the organ this entire walk has targeted. Believing that people are innately good, we feel that they simply must not know the wonderful people and beautiful places which a wall would destroy and immigration legislation could enhance.”
Email from Irma Muniz:
February 14, 2008
Dear Friends:
My loving husband, Ramsey, calls and is not concerned about discussing his freedom. His mind is focused on expressions of love, as Valentine’s Day is upon us. I, his wife, cannot find the Valentine’s Day card that he sent me. I have no time for love, as I have an insatiable need to free my husband.
In the midst of sorrow, love refuses to die . . .
Valentine’s Day Sentiments
From my Loving Husband, Ramsey
There is light and love in your soul,
which makes the beauty of your heart a part of me
and those close to you.
The same beauty is the enlightenment
that to this day makes me the Mexicano that I am.
My hunger in these dungeons is not for food,
but for the love that you have transformed into my soul.
Humanity celebrates this day once a year.
We, as lovers, celebrate this most profound love
every day of our lives. It is so powerful that
history will record this one day.
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
“Weeping may linger for the night, but
in the morning there are shouts of joy.”
“You have a soul in you of rare Mexicana quality,
an artist’s nature; never let it starve for lack of
what it desires.”
“Between life and death, between the beauty and the
horror of the world, the quest for freedom is what makes us —
no matter what the circumstances — free.”
“Celebrate this day of hearts with all the joy and
passion that is within you.”
Amor,
Ramsey – Tezcatlipoca
“Love is a power that has no limit. It is the power of imagination.”
By Greg Moses
And while we’ve got your attention, please see if you can help with any of the suffering that federal actions are causing here.
In the matters of the Ibrahim family, Rrustem Neza, Ramsey Muniz, and the Suleiman Twins we could use less crackdown and more humanity from the federal face of power. In these four cases, immediate federal relief is possible and therefore necessary.
What sort of nation provides prisons as solutions to immigration? The T. Don Hutto prison for mothers and children is a mean-spirited sign of the times. We think you should all go there, and we think you should all issue statements that the facility is offensive to your conscience. Agencies created in Washington have not only conjured the prison, but have refused to let UN inspectors onto the premises.
The Rolling Plains prison of Haskell and the human warehouses of Raymondville are two other examples of the prison state you are funding here. Go smell what you are doing.
While many of you have been working in Washington, we’ve been worn thin by your contradictory border policies which legalize all manner of movement for commodities and profits while criminalizing migrant workers whose lives have been uprooted. And today, as you speedily enable even faster velocities of trade across the border, your federal agents intensify their maddening contradictions by taking land to build a more people-impervious wall between families and neighbors.
We can see why it makes sense from a party planning standpoint that Texas issues were scheduled to be addressed at a time in the primary cycle when the races might be winding down. But history is exhibiting its creative talent for truth, and therefore, in order to become President you must first wade right into the policy mess of Texas and tell us how you are going to bring some clarity of mind, some justice, some leadership.
Before primary election day, here is what you can do: stop the wall, shut down Hutto, and stop hurting the Ibrahim family, Rrustem Neza, the Suleiman twins, and Ramsey Muniz. With these accomplishments on the record, we could be assured that you are competing for something more important than a popularity contest in Texas; you could actually change history.
Good luck to you all. May justice be the cause of your success.
Note: Previously posted in the announcements section of the Texas Civil Rights Review.
Emial from John Wheat Gibson:
“Today the US attorney filed a motion to abate or dismiss the suit in Abilene to drug Rrustem Neza. He said he filed it because of Congressman Louie Gohmert’s private bill.”
Note: for more information on the case of Rrustem Neza and the efforts of Rep. Gohmert, please see the Texas Civil Rights Review Index of Documents, “Saving Rrustem Neza.”
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