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Marisol Chávez in Brownsville, Texas

Fear, anger and hope as Texas border city mourns migrants killed by truck

Migrants hold flowers during a vigil on Tuesday for the eight migrants who were killed the day before while waiting at a bus stop, in Brownsville, Texas.
Migrants hold flowers during a vigil on Tuesday for the eight migrants who were killed the day before while waiting at a bus stop, in Brownsville, Texas. Photograph: Michael Gonzalez/AP

A vigil in Brownsville mourning eight men killed when a car crashed into migrants waiting at a bus stop drew local residents and migrant families on Monday evening expressing a mix of grief, anger, hope and love in the shaken border city.

“My son is my whole life, and that man may have taken it,” a Venezuelan mother, Marilín de los Ángeles Medero Piña, lamented, sobbing desperately into the microphone.

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