Surge of migrant families and youths overwhelms Border Patrol in Texas
Families are sheltered at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas, after being released from immigration.
(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)
March 16, 2021 5:02 PM PT
MISSION, Texas
The priest arrived to bless about 90 Central American families Tuesday at an old parish hall that had been converted into a shelter to absorb the rising number of migrants and unaccompanied children streaming into Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.
The Rev. Roy Snipes, a native Texan who preaches in a straw cowboy hat, stood in front of a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He prayed in Spanish over the families, sprinkling them with holy water drawn from the Rio Grande, the same river many had crossed just days before.
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