Catholics at the U.S.-Mexico border: 'Too many people to help, but someone has to'

Immigrants gather at a makeshift camp stranded between border walls between the U.S. and Mexico on May 13, 2023 in San Diego, California. / Photo by Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWashington D.C., May 15, 2023 / 14:17 pm (CNA).As the political debate rages over how to manage a new surge of migrants, Catholics like Rosario Reynolds living along the U.S.-Mexico border face a more personal dilemma: how to respond to desperate new arrivals they encounter in their communities and churches every day.Reynolds, a 64-year-old public school teacher for deaf students in El Paso, Texas, told CNA that she doesn't know what the right response to the border crisis is on a government level.But as Catholics, she firmly believes, "We have a responsibility to help."Reynolds and her husband Michael have done what they can. She taught a deaf migrant American Sign Language. He drove a young man across the state to reunite him with his brother and U.S. sponsor."The family reunion was so beautiful. It was jus...

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