The Border Responds to Mexico’s Big Katrina

Stunned by the massive tragedy unfolding in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, US-Mexico border communities are pitching in to aid flood victims. In Tijuana newly-inaugurated Baja California Governor Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan instructed state officials to coordinate a supply collection.

Stepping up to the plate, the state governments of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon sent three helicopters, medical brigades, water pumps and vital supplies. In McAllen, Texas, the Mexican consulate kicked off a collection drive for material goods needed by more than one million displaced people.

In Reynosa, Tamaulipas, the Medalla Milagrosa Church organized an aid drive that focused on gathering material support from residents of the working-class Colonia Hidalgo neighborhood. Up the Rio Grande in Nuevo Laredo, the Red Cross set up a central collection point.”*

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