Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week said he would start sending migrants caught crossing the state's southern border to the U.S. Capitol.
pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it plans to lift the policy on May 23.
W. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, was in Del Rio last week and at least three people with knowledge of his visit said he specifically visited the Val Verde Humanitarian Humanitarian Border Coalition, the only local nonprofit assisting migrants in the city. “It was completely voluntary and also from a humanitarian side, it made sense. The people on that bus were going in that direction,” said Burrow, adding more buses are on their way to D.C., but her volunteers did not facilitate the process. “This was not our thing. They came to us as they went to other locations along the border.”The coalition last month helped more than 5,000 migrants representing 33 countries, she said.
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