In the 10th Chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke, Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan. After a number of people had ignored a wounded man beside the road, the Good Samaritan, a member of a despised group, stopped to lend assistance.
When Teresa L. Todd, a government lawyer and mother, saw three young people (two brothers and a sister) beside the road in Texas near Big Bend National Park, she stopped her car and told them to get in out of the cold. She was soon pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy, followed by the Border Patrol. She was told she could be found guilty of transporting illegal aliens and spent 45 minutes in a holding cell.
She has been visited by a federal Homeland Security investigator and a Texas Ranger. Her phone was seized, although that was returned 53 days later. The incident remains “an active case,” and she may still be charged.
People who examined the sister said she might have died if Mrs. Todd had not picked her up. The three youths are now in ICE custody and may soon be deported.
See Manny Fernandez, “She Stopped to Help Immigrants by Road, And Was Sent to Jail,” New York Times, (May 11, 2019), p. A17.
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