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

Vigil held for eight who were killed after a car plowed into them at a bus stop in city of Brownsville, near Mexico border

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.