TUCSON.
the US Federal Government and the hostels in border states are preparing to receive what could be a new wave of migrants with new processing centers and more resources to help families, Including testing of covid-19.
In the past two weeks, the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported the arrival of large groups at the border, particularly in Texas, where the federal agency has already begun releasing dozens of these families. Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Vall de l ‘ Great river -an agency in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas- said that two weeks ago the Border Patrol began freeing families.
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key The arrival of families is expected to increase further in the coming weeks due to the fact that the Biden Administration has not yet made a decision on what to do with migrants awaiting an asylum response. |
Since then, the shelter which manages the agency in the city of Great river receives an average of 80 families daily, mostly made up of immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador; but families from other countries, such as Haiti, also arrive.
“We are seeing that only families they are being released: father, mother and their children, ”he said.
She has indicated that CBP contacted her directly and informed her that the families they would begin to be released, so they immediately began to prepare. the shelter it has translators and volunteers who help migrants call their own families in the United States and buy bus tickets to reach your final destinations.