Nearly 2,000 Migrants Live in ‘Tent City’ as U.S. Border Agents Prepare for Huge Increase
April 20, 2022Currents News Staff Families are running to see if they can get on the bus. Why? They are desperate to get out […]
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Survivor of Human Smuggling Boat Speaks About the Journey’s Fight for Survival
February 1, 2022Currents News Staff Juan Esteban Montoya is out of the hospital after being dehydrated and disoriented. The 22-year-old was clinging to a capsized […]
Migration at Historic Highs: Northern Triangle Countries Surge at Southern Border
January 20, 2022Currents News Staff The Migrant Protection Protocols, more commonly known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, requires migrants seeking asylum in the […]
Visitors at the U.S.-Mexico Border ‘Grateful to God’ For Open Border Travel
November 9, 2021Currents News Staff Grateful. That’s the word that has come out of the mouths of every person. All of them are stepping […]
Hope On the Open Ocean: How One Catholic Priest Rescues Fleeing Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean
November 4, 2021Currents News Staff This is what Father Luigi Usubelli saw: a wooden boat carrying 70 migrants including four children and six women […]
Haitian Advocacy Group from the Diocese of Brooklyn Travels to Del Rio Border
October 5, 2021By Jessica Easthope Now is the time to strategize. A small advocacy group is pulling together lawyers, money, supplies and medication to […]
Why Locals Say the Humanitarian Crisis at the Border is ‘Difficult’ and ‘Unfair’
October 1, 2021By John Lavenburg and Currents News DEL RIO, Texas — As a group of migrants filed out of a taxi van at […]
U.S. Reacts After Video of Border Patrol Agents Confronting Haitian Immigrants Goes Viral
September 21, 2021By Emily Drooby Viral videos of U.S. border patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian immigrants have prompted outrage across the country and […]
Diocese of Brooklyn Priest Participates in Catholic Extension Mission Immersion with Migrants
September 15, 2021By Jessica Easthope and Bill Miller A single cherry is a delicate fruit, but harvesting bushels of them is back-breaking for migrant […]
Catholic Asylum Center in California Racing to Help With Ongoing Migrant Surge
April 27, 2021Currents News Staff Inside a small shelter in the eastern Coachella Valley, they’re in a race against time. Claudia Castorena is the founder […]