In the News ... "Housing immigrants under bridge 'did not have to happen,' advocates say after CBP shifts"

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• Conditions at the camp under the bridge brought an outcry

By Aaron Montes, Reporter
• El Paso Times

EL PASO, TEXAS - Migrants never should have been held outside, on the desert floor behind barbed wire and chain-link fences, said Ruben Garcia, executive director of Annunciation House.

“It did not have to happen,” Garcia said of the makeshift camp set up beneath the Paso del Norte International Bridge in El Paso ...

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