Priest on crowds of migrants in El Paso, Texas: It's a 'humanitarian crisis'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : They stay here out of fear that the Border Patrol will return them to Mexico," Mora, a Colombian priest who has been based in El Paso for the last year and a half, told Efe. That church, founded and staffed by Jesuits and the oldest in El Paso, also is home to a small shelter that is open 24 hours and day and provides refuge for 140 people, mostly women and children.
48% : Mora stressed the importance of "providing proper guidance, so they're aware of their situation, and telling them the truth: that it's hard to keep going (to other parts of the country) but that there are some apps they can access from their cellphones to request asylum."
37% : Thousands of people have crossed the border ahead of Thursday's expiration of the United States' pandemic-era border policy known as Title 42, under which migrants encountered at the southern border could be immediately expelled for public-health reasons and denied any opportunity to seek asylum.
36% : According to local government officials, around 60 percent of those gathered near the church are undocumented and have not even begun the process of seeking asylum.

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