March 17, 2021
Amid new surge, local groups offer shelter for Central American migrants Written by Geoffrey Plant on March 17, 2021
(Press Staff Photo by Geoffrey Plant)
A Honduran woman and her daughter inside the Red De Albergues para Migrantes Tierra de Oro migrant shelter in Palomas on Tuesday. Juan Rascon, who works with the Luna County-based nonprofit Border Partners, and RAM President Rosalio Sosa are seated in the background.
On Tuesday, in the middle of a blinding
tormenta de polvo, or dust storm,
Red De Albergues para Migrantes known as “RAM” president and El Paso-based Baptist pastor Rosalio Sosa sat inside one of the Tierra de Oro migrant shelter’s two small buildings and expressed gratitude to Grant Countians who have made donations of supplies and cash to the facility through the Silver City Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in recent months.