A local group welcomed busloads of migrants into Dallas with compassion and helped them get to their next stops.
Dozens of migrants arrived in Dallas on Tuesday and Wednesday after a three-hour bus ride from one of the several detention centers in Texas, where thousands of other migrants are still being processed for entry into the United States. For most, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church is but a brief pit stop on a lengthy journey.sounds calm over the phone. When we talk she’s in the middle of helping 20 newly arrived migrants arrange the next steps in their new country.
Immigration in its various forms is one of the hottest of hot button issues today, and it doesn't take much for people to form passionate opinions about what they’re seeing on cable news and the headlines they skim on social media. But this isn’t like when Dallas sheltered thousands of immigrant boys in the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in 2021 for weeks and months at a time, nor is it like what Texas governor Greg Abbott has been doing with his migrant busing in recent months.
“Right now I’m helping them book their tickets,” she said on Tuesday afternoon. “There might be one person who stays overnight because we couldn’t get a flight until early in the morning, but most will be heading out before the end of the day. This has been the case the whole time we’ve been doing this, regardless ofTitle 42 is part of the U.S. public health code that permits the rapid expulsion of asylum seekers and other migrants during public health emergencies.
Muscatwalla says that as difficult and chaotic as it might seem to coordinate so many details for so many migrants on a weekly basis, it continues to be an orderly process. Multiple established non-government organizations are involved, and communication with immigration and border authorities in El Paso has been “very organized,” she says.
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