𝙈𝙔 𝙀𝙉𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝘿𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙎 "𝙀𝙎𝘾𝘼𝙋𝙀𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙋𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙊𝙉𝙎 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙇 𝙄𝙉𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙏𝙐𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝙎" 𝙄𝙉 𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉𝙔 𝙈𝘼𝙏𝘼𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙊𝙎

My son dropped me off at the old bridge for my rainy walk through Matamoros Wednesday.  

My first goal was to locate Papagayos, my old lunch venue from the 60's and it was there, as it's always been, along the railroad track.

I did encounter of group of so-called asylum seekers huddled up near the bridge.  An older man at the front of the line informed me they were "todos de Nicaragua."

The group did not look like escapees from prisons and mental institutions our mentally-challenged former president has described, but more like the family units who accompanied Benjamin Rich (bald and bankrupt) on that historic trek through the Darien Gap.  

When I shouted "bienvenidos!" to the entire group, I got an animated response, but knew very well that they faced many future complications in their quest for a new, better life.