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At this facility, they were given showers, shelter, food, and the ability to call their sponsors in the US to make a plan to travel to them. Human things, ya’ know? CBP dropped anywhere from 0-200 a day. The facility would have no advance notice about who or how many were coming.

But they waited and welcomed everyone who arrived, and helped them on their way. There’s an amazing group of people here, and I will be sharing their stories soon. But here’s the latest, the part I need you to know:

This week, it’s been eerily quiet. 6 on Monday. 2 yesterday. 3 today. Where are all the migrants?

Yesterday, Dr. Claudia Mercado, the local physician who put the clinic together shared photos of migrants walking back into Mexico, as well as photos from the other side of the border of children sleeping on pizza boxes and people seeking shelter under bridges in Mexico.

We believe it is because of the new policy forcing people to await their asylum cases in Mexico. Here’s the problems:

1. These are not Mexican citizens, they come from all over Central America. We are dumping them in a country they do not know with no food, water, money, phone, or shelter. They know NO ONE and are not being taken to shelters. They are walking & ending up in parks & under bridges

2. They sold everything in their home countries to make this trip. They have no resources at all.

3. The part of Mexico they are being pushed to is very dangerous. This is a major passageway for the drug trade and cartels are everywhere. We are sending vulnerable people with no resources into the hands of these cartels, putting them at risk for rape, torture, and murder.