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By: Erin Sheridan November 24, 2019December 3, 2019
Articles, U.S./Mexico Border

Matamoros, Mexico Mid-November

Photos from a visit to camps of refugees living near the Matamoros side of the Gateway International Bridge on November 18.

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“D’Cruz later confirmed that the Salvadoran fa “D’Cruz later confirmed that the Salvadoran family had been paroled to family sponsors in the United States. As of press time, she was still waiting to hear from the three other families, who were taken into the checkpoint for processing. ‘I don’t trust CBP, so we’ll see what happens,’ she said.”
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“They’ve placed us in a position where we have “They’ve placed us in a position where we have to be strategic about who we present at the bridge and when we call the media to put pressure on CBP. Why is it that my patient with ovarian cancer gets to cross, but my patient with stomach cancer can’t? It’s heart-wrenching.”
“It’s cases like that where someone would have “It’s cases like that where someone would have died and it would have made the news and all of these things would be happening. We get to mitigate that on the spot because we have the infrastructure right here.”
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