The US border with Mexico is becoming more and more impenetrable and Donald Trump is increasingly blatantly inciting migrants. Gail Kocourek is trying to save lives – with water.
She spots the men first. High up on a hill on the Mexican side, she detects movement in the bushes. First by one person, then another, finally by a whole group dressed in camouflage uniforms.
“Agua,” she calls loudly in Spanish. “Agua, agua, agua. We have water and food.”
Gail Kocourek, 78, stands at the wall of the US-Mexico border in the Arizona desert, 20 kilometers from the nearest town. She is wearing a red T-shirt with a white cross on it and the imprint “Samaritan” and is looking through a hole in the wall that former President Donald Trump once had built. In her car she keeps water canisters, food, medication and water filters ready.
Source: Stern
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