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    As US releases thousands of asylum-seekers at the border, volunteers struggle to keep pace

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Apr 05, 2019 5 minutes

    McALLEN, Texas - Federal immigration officials dropped the first group of several dozen asylum-seekers - all Central American parents with children - at the downtown bus station here just before it opened at 5 a.m. Thursday.

    They dropped more throughout the day, all of them Spanish speakers in need of food, medicine and guidance from local volunteers.

    Jose Manuel Velasquez, 24, cradled his squirming 3-year-old-daughter, Sofia, as volunteer Susan Law advised him how to reach Oklahoma City, where he hoped to join his cousin. He was one of thousands of asylum-seekers trying to leave the border region this week to reach friends, family and immigration court hearings in other parts of the country.

    Across the border this week ahead of President Donald Trump's Friday visit to California, volunteers

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