By Kate McCarty

Editor’s note: Kate McCarty is a longtime Hays County resident who recently took a trip to the Texas border to donate supplies collected by the Hays County Democrats. 

The temperature in the parking lot near the Progreso Bridge in south Texas was 95 degrees, but it was much hotter atop a concrete structure spanning the Rio Grande River.

Standing on the structure were 40 individuals who have been waiting for more than a month for permission to enter the U.S. and state their c...