El Paso locals are rallying together to support the influx of thousands of migrants coming across the border just days before Christmas - even opening their homes to asylum seekers with children.
Arbitrary and absurd : Uneven enforcement at Texas border prompts migrants to try, try again
Two Haitian women, with similar back stories, met starkly different fates after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.
Story by Lauren Villagran | Photos by Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times
Published
3:52 pm UTC Apr. 9, 2021
Marie Martine and Briyanne Jeanniton fled their native Haiti, traveled for years on parallel journeys across two continents before landing at the Texas border.
Their paths never crossed but, in March, they each made what they hoped would be their last leg: They surrendered to Border Patrol agents, one in El Paso, the other in Del Rio.