Migrants mark Good Friday at Texas' razor wire border
STORY: Members of the Colectivo Angeles Mensajeros (Messenger Angels collective) led prayers and reenacted the Way of the Cross, featuring a person bearing a cross along the riverbank, which was lined with razor wire.
Other members of the collective, dressed as angels, displaying signs against the backdrop of the border wall entwined with concertina wire.
The group’s representative, pastor Carlos Mayorga, said they wanted to send a message asking the president of the U.S. to help out countries immersed in misery and violence, and telling the governor of Texas that migrants are not a problem.
A U.S. court kept a controversial anti-migration state law on hold this week. The law, formally called S.B. 4, would make it a state crime to illegally enter or re-enter Texas from a foreign country and would empower state judges to order that violators leave the United States, with prison sentences of up to 20 years for those who refuse to comply.
The challenge to the Texas law is one in a series of legal disputes between Republican state officials and the Biden administration over the state's ability to police the border, including its placement of razor-wire fencing and the installation of a 1,000-foot-long floating barrier in the Rio Grande river.
