Migrants – and Mexican aid groups – adapt to shifts at US border
by Whitney Eulich
Mar 05, 2024
3 minutes
When Pat Murphy became director of the Casa del Migrante here in 2013, the shelter exclusively served men deported from the United States.
Running a migrant shelter at the U.S.-Mexico border was challenging, he recalls, but after a few years, he settled into a routine. “I remember thinking, ‘OK, I’ve got it now. I know what to expect,’” says Padre Pat, as the Catholic priest is known.
Sitting behind his desk in a small meeting room at the shelter, which overlooks this sprawling city, he laughs at his naiveté. Over the past several years, whom his shelter serves – and how
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