Inside the Secret Migrant Hideout Run by Catholic Nuns on the Mexican Border Todd Bensman - Dailymail.com
go to original February 12, 2024

At least two hundred and twenty Venezuelans, Colombians, and Ecuadorians crowd inside the cramped cement block, barbed wire-rimmed Casa Del Migrante compound.

It's a makeshift shelter run by Catholic nuns.

Kids in filthy pajamas play with trash in the dirt yard.

Families guard their belongings stuffed in black garbage bags and piled in heaps.

There's a bucket of water for washing hands and a cinder block building with two toilets – for everyone.

A busy ad hoc barber shop – consisting of a stool and a mess of extension cords — is off in a corner.

The place reeks of boredom.

There's nothing to do.

Nowhere to go.

'We're protected only inside the shelter,' a Central American man tells me, explaining no one even dares to step foot outside the walls of the Catholic charity to buy snacks at the store across the road.

'Out on the street, they can capture us,' he says. 'But they cannot come in here.'

Mexican law prevents the authorities from entering a religious facility.

Inside Migrant House, these people are hidden away from roaming patrols of the Mexican army, state police, and national immigration service officers, who are finally now forcibly transporting them 1,500 miles south into southern Mexico.

Make no mistake, the fact that Mexico is doing something to address the unrelenting mass migration crisis that enabled an estimated 5 million undocumented people to enter the U.S. over just three years is a good thing.

But why are the Mexicans doing this now?

How long will this operation last?

And, most critically, why wasn't this policy instituted years ago?

I traveled to Piedra Negras, just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas to answer these questions - and what I found cuts to the heart of President Joe Biden's utterly cynical, dangerous and destructive immigrant non-policy.

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Related: Inside ‘Zone 47’: Biden’s Ruthless Mexico Immigration Crackdown Is Working, but Media Won’t Tie Him to It (Center for Immigration Studies)

Related: The First Mexican-Born Martyr: A Castaway Friar Who Was Crucified in Japan (NCRegister)

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