Isabel Márquez, a Dallas pastor, hurried into a church hall full of confused immigrants. They had been deposited just minutes earlier by a federal immigration...
Across North Texas, scenes of despair and gratitude play out weekly, offering a glimpse of what’s to come as immigration policies shift at the Southwest border.
On Monday, responding to an effort by a group of Republican-led states, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked the lifting of the order, which was set to expire on Wednesday, Dec. 21.without giving them a chance to apply for asylum under the justification that it was for pandemic safety.declared a state of disaster Saturday night to deal with a deepening humanitarian crisis
“Everyone who comes here … very strongly feels for this community – for this group of people who deserve a better life, a better opportunity, a better approach to how they’re welcome,” said Muscatwalla. The immigrants’ needs are overwhelming. Backpacks and Size 8 men’s shoes get claimed the fastest, said Callie Stewart, who runs the nonprofit Rio Valley Relief Project and volunteers at the Oak Lawn United Methodist Church.Immigration lawyers are in short supply, too. Attorney Bill Holston recently delivered grim news to a pair of Venezuelans gathered at the Emanuel Lutheran Church in Old East Dallas.
The tall, lean man from Panama said he was relieved to be free. “I felt like a criminal in detention,” he said, explaining he had cuffs on his wrists, fastened to his waist and ankles. He spent nearly two months at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, a town of about 2,300 residents in central Texas. The center is run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Down the hall, Almas Muscatwalla looked worried. She needed more help as she tried to match immigrants with flights and with rides to the airport. The immigrants or their families pick up the airfare. Pacheco came to the U.S. as a college student from Venezuela, a country where a fifth of the population is estimated to have fled in recent years, according to a U.N. agency.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the clinic moved to mostly video calls with fewer clients. Some sessions were held at Grace Grapevine, a nonprofit where many of the clients are undocumented, said Shondra Schaefer, chief executive of the organization.
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