The women behind the nonprofit reflect on their work providing food and supplies to asylum-seekers at the border for Hearst’s “From Our Abuelas” series.
By Shireen Korkzan
Posted Dec 14, 2020
[Episcopal News Service] Amid an unusual Advent season due to COVID-19, more than 600 migrants and asylum-seekers 300 of which are children as identified by an internal census sit in rat-infested tent encampments and shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border awaiting approval to enter the United States through one of Texas’ 28 international bridges and border crossings.
In an attempt to bring some Christmas cheer to the children detained in Matamoros and Reynosa, Mexico, Texas-based organizations the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas’ Immigration & Refugee Ministries and Team Brownsville, along with Mexico-based Senda de Vida Ministry, are hosting a