{"id":10722,"date":"2019-09-06T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10722"},"modified":"2019-09-06T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:19:02","slug":"tx-volunteers-frustrated-as-migrants-are-trapped-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10722","title":{"rendered":"TX Volunteers Frustrated as Migrants are Trapped in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10724\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10724\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10724\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gr-67608-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gr-67608-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gr-67608-1-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/gr-67608-1-1-405x254.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Homeland Security says a \u201cremain in Mexico\u201d policy has reduced overcrowded conditions for asylum seekers in the U.S. Photo: DHS Inspector General\/Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Dan Heyman<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>EL PASO, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Volunteers who have been helping desperate migrants arriving in El Paso say they\u2019re frustrated to see those people now being forced to stay in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration pressured the Mexican government to stop migrants before they can ask for asylum in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Teva Gabis-Levine volunteered to coordinate for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/annunciationhouse.org\/\" target=\"parent\">Annunciation House<\/a>, a temporary shelter in El Paso. He says there are as many as 15,000 people \u2013 mostly central Americans \u2013 now backed up in desperate conditions in Juarez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people out in the plaza,\u201d he states. \u201cThere are people in the basements of churches, in order to be some sort of deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration defends the conditions asylum seekers face, saying they will discourage others from trying to come to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Gabis-Levine says Annunciation House went from sheltering as many as 1,000 new people a day last winter to seeing 100 or fewer per day.<\/p>\n<p>He says it was a stretch, but volunteers there could at least help people get on their feet and, within a few days, head out around the country to meet up with sponsors. He says he was impressed with how ordinary people stepped up to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks who brought shoes for people who were dropped off without shoes,\u201d Gabis-Levine relates. \u201cMaking peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and assembling bags that we would send folks on their journeys with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Annunciation House was described as \u201cthe Ellis Island of the southwest border\u201d in the Los Angeles Times newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Gabis-Levine says in Mexico, the migrants are subject to far worse conditions and live under the threat of serious violence. He says it\u2019s hard for him to watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter this occupying every waking moment of my life for six months, it\u2019s emotionally very difficult to know that that\u2019s happening a stone\u2019s throw away and not really being able to do anything about it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dan Heyman EL PASO, Texas \u2013\u00a0Volunteers who have been helping desperate migrants arriving in El Paso say they\u2019re frustrated to see those people now being forced to stay in Mexico. The Trump administration pressured the Mexican government to stop migrants before they can ask for asylum in the U.S. Teva Gabis-Levine volunteered to coordinate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10725,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10722\/revisions\/10725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}