But already to be here safe, it’s a relief,” she added. “We don’t know what’s going to happen with asylum. Francis Xavier, just across from one of El Paso’s three international bridges. “One knows that that this is but one part, that we’re halfway on our way,” said Tatiana Gamez, a Colombian mother who was released by immigration authorities to a small shelter run by the Catholic parish of St. In an office next to the historic sanctuary, one of his fellow Jesuits prepared to visit a shelter at a different El Paso parish to counsel migrants who already had crossed illegally and were detained. “May the asylum promises of this country be renewed,” Mora noted in the Mass intentions. Daniel Mora prayed for goodwill in welcoming the crowds of migrants expected to arrive in the city and at the church’s gym-turned-shelter when pandemic-era restrictions on asylum-seeking lifted overnight. soil, with enormous backlogs in asylum hearings and the Biden administration’s newly announced measures that many consider stricter than the existing ones known as Title 42.ĭuring Thursday morning Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, a few blocks from the border with Mexico, the Rev. EL PASO, Texas (AP) - As changing policies, rampant misinformation and exasperated, fearful crowds converge in this desert city, faith leaders are striving to provide shelter and uplift.Īlong with prayers, they are counseling migrants about the daunting challenges that await them on U.S.
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