Drawn to the US border, volunteers weave a safety net
Luis Guerrero has been going to the central bus station here for six years now. He still hasn’t bought himself a ticket.
It started when he saw a nun trying to help newly arrived migrants passing through the station and offered to translate for her. The migrants have kept coming, so he has kept making the ride to the station.
Of course, migrants are crossing into this part of Texas in numbers not seen in over a decade. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has already apprehended more migrants in the Rio Grande Valley sector this fiscal year than any other year this century besides 2014. Mr. Guerrero has responded to this latest surge with the calm enthusiasm of a retired firefighter who rescued children from a submerged school bus three decades ago.
More than a year on from the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy – which led to thousands of
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