Trump could target border shelters that relieved pressure during migrant surges
by: VALERIE GONZALEZ, Associated Press
Posted: Jan 6, 2025 / 09:54 AM CST
Updated: Jan 6, 2025 / 09:55 AM CST
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — When Roselins Sequera’s family of seven finally reached the U.S. from Venezuela, they spent weeks at a migrant shelter on the Texas border that gave them a place to sleep, meals and tips for finding work.
“We had a plan to go to Iowa” to join friends, said Sequera, who arrived at the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in October. “But we didn’t know how.”
Dozens of shelters run by aid groups on the U.S. border with Mexico have welcomed large numbers of migrants, providing lifelines of support and relief to overwhelmed cities. They work closely with the Border Patrol to care for migrants released with notices to appear in immigration court, many of whom don’t know where they are or how to find the nearest airport or bus station.
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/migrant-centers/trump-could-target-border-shelters-that-relieved-pressure-during-migrant-surges/
