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Teresa L. Todd was detained by Border Patrol agents after stopping her car to help a group of migrants in Texas. Jessica Lutz for The New York Times.
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| "Trump Arrests The Good Samaritan" Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Columnist Teresa Todd is just a good person. So when she was driving along a West Texas highway recently and saw a young man trying desperately to flag down her car, she didn’t drive on. “I’m a mom,” she told me, and he reminded her of her 15-year-old son. Teresa stopped and found three siblings from El Salvador, including a desperately ill 18-year-old woman whose life she helped save. And then a sheriff’s deputy and Border Patrol officer pulled up behind Teresa — and arrested her. |
| My column today tells the story of Teresa and how her compassion as a Good Samaritan got her arrested and detained in a holding cell; she is still facing possible federal charges. It’s part of a general crackdown on Americans who try to save the lives of migrants. I also mention a man in Arizona, Scott Warren, who goes on trial this month and faces up to 20 years in prison for trying to save migrants’ lives in the desert there. |
| “I’m simply a mom who saw a child in need and pulled over to try to help,” Teresa says. “The whole time I was by the side of the road, I was thinking: What country am I in? This is not the United States.” Now here’s my column about how a mom in West Texas got arrested for helping save a life — and what that says about our country today. Read! Alan: The conservative malice represented in the article above distills to the right-wing conviction that anyone on "the left side of the aisle" is a "baby killer." This categorization of all liberals and progressives as "horned devils with pointed tails" provides American "conservatives" -- particularly "Christian" "conservatives" -- with all the self-righteous justification needed to see themselves -- and only themselves -- as "Godly people"... whereas everyone is "God-damned."
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