The local Tucson community is rallying to aid the refugee children from Central America who are being brought here by immigration officials in an humanitarian crisis. (h/t photo: The Arizona Republic).
The children who are coming from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are suffering from gang and drug violence, and from a depressed economy. The Arizona Daily Star reports, Bishop Kicanas, other leaders plan aid for immigrant women, children:
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson met with community leaders and local and federal officials Friday to plan for humanitarian aid for immigrant women and children being dropped off at the bus station downtown.
The Department of Homeland Security began dropping off several hundred immigrants a week at the Tucson Greyhound station for about three weeks, expecting them to find their own way to cities across the country to report to immigration offices there.
Large numbers of mostly Central Americans and families from Mexico are being apprehended in south Texas in the Rio Grande Valley and being flown to bus stations in Tucson and Phoenix because federal officials cannot handle the influx of immigrants in Texas for processing.