It seems that revealing the past is a most complicated effort. This author really did good work in piecing together all the elements of the lives intertwined in the story of Crystal City and her inhabitants.
For me this brings some revelation to the present day internment occurring in the very same region of these United States.
Over the past recent years, as illegal immigrants have risked crossing over our southern borders by the thousands, they too have once captured , become part of a mammoth operation of U.S. government led "internment".
Large facilities are being built in South Texas, such as Dilley, to house young Central & South American illegals.
Housing is in short supply as are support staff for these city camps.
So workers are being brought in from every state to work in every conceivable position and government is providing housing and tour bus transportation to and from the various shifts.
Most of the detainees are older youth and some younger children. In addition to meals, dormitories and medical facilities, teachers and classrooms are being built.
At the first wave, the government called upon the organization known as the B.C.F.S. out of San Antonio.
There was a push for mass adoption and new enrollment into the foster care system to attempt assimilation and care for the children to find support in their desperate efforts to find their family members that had previously arrived most illegals as well.
It was rumored by some arrivals that billboards and leaflet information had been disseminated in countries south of Mexico, that the Obama administration did not plan on deporting or stopping anyone that could cross into the United States. This created a wave of poverty and politically depressed people to send themselves and or at least their children north on top of trains and by any means possible to reach America of the North!
I had known for most of my life as a missionary child in S. American countries that the common belief was that if you could come to the U.S.A. of the North, life there was full of goodness and rich with opportunities.
I can remember hearing, "In the U.S.A., they say money grows on trees there!"
Isn't life amazing? Regardless of the year, mother's and father's want something better for their children.
These new internees travel risking all to arrive here seeking a better brighter future. They run through rattlesnake, tarantula, thorn ridden deserts to get here, often are robbed, raped and sometimes murdered but once here they are treated to prison style 24/7 internment.
Oh but don't let me forget to add the camps are nice, first class some with professional signage denoting them Family camps.
Wow, there's nothing new under the sun.
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Remarks by one interned in Crystal City as a DANGEROUS ALIEN ENEMY
The Author clearly did her research, as I was one of those interned in Crystal City Internment compound for 5 years. Her footnote references prove decisive in objectively discussing the ramifications and at times the shear terror of internment. The deliberate, even purposeful, denial of the rights accorded in our Constitution, and the violations of the protections accorded by the Geneva Conventions are delineated by this historic book. That it is also an easy read makes it even more remarkable.
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- Crazy HunterReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2016
Jan Jarboe RUSSELL has written a great piece of testimony for this troubled period
