Rachel Monroe on Annunciation House, a nonprofit shelter system, in Texas, which is run by Ruben Garcia and which houses migrants and refugees crossing the border.
As the director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit shelter system, Garcia, who is seventy-five, has welcomed migrants and refugees arriving in El Paso for nearly fifty years. Record numbers of people are crossing the border, many of them into El Paso, one of the country’s busiest ports of entry. Ninety-two people was “very manageable” compared with the number on many other days, he said.
Then, in 2014, Garcia says, representatives from the Border Patrol and from the El Paso office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement requested to meet with Garcia. “I’m, like, What the hell are they wanting? Because, at that point, there wasn’t really a relationship,” Garcia said. The officials wanted to discuss a shift in migrant populations. Instead of single adults hoping to find work under the table, many border crossers were now families planning to apply for asylum.
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