Volunteers at Freeman Coliseum want to help, not be pawns in Gov. Greg Abbott’s partisan game
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By James Dobbins
on Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:40 AM
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For years, Gloria Gutierrez worked with children as a Dallas elementary school principal.
Now, the 73-year-old retiree is working with kids again, spurred on by the heartbreaking, months-long journey unaccompanied minor asylum seekers must endure to reach South Texas.
She wanted to help, so she’s now among the volunteers assisting with some 2,000 teenage boys housed at a makeshift federal shelter at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio. Late last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reached a 60-day lease with Bexar County to house unaccompanied minors there as it became overwhelmed by a surge in border crossings.