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May 13, 2023, El Paso, Texas, USA: An alley behind the Sacred Heart Catholic Church has become the home of dozens of migrants, many fleeing threats and oppression by the Venezuelan government. The majority of these men and women had homes and jobs in their country and had never slept on the street or been homeless before arriving in the US. Most were processed at the border then released in El Paso, with no money and nowhere to go. Several asylum seekers reported that the Border Patrol had taken away their belts and shoe laces. while they were being held, and had thrown away many of their personal belongings, including medicine. They sleep on the pavement or, if lucky, on cardboard. They have only thin blankets dropped off by the Red Cross - ZUMAs li 20230513_new_s241_043 Copyright: xBelindaxSoncinix
May 13, 2023, El Paso, Texas, USA: A group of mostly 19-year-olds from Venezuela and Columbia, who have been living on the sidewalk outside Sacred Heart Catholic Church since crossing the border from Juarez, Mexico this week, after Title 42 was lifted. When someone gave them a soccer ball earlier in the day, they played for six hours on the closed-off street. It almost makes us feel like we™re home, one of them said in Spanish. All of them had been working in their countries since they were young in order to support their families. They want to work again now that they are in the US, but are not permitted to work while awaiting their asylum hearings, which could take more than a year. Left to right: WILME, CARLOS, SHRISTIAN (standin - ZUMAs li 20230513_new_s241_040 Copyright: xBelindaxSoncinix
May 13, 2023, El Paso, Texas, USA: A young man from Venezuela, who recently crossed the border from Juarez, Mexico, washes himself and shaves at a spigot outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. More than a hundred asylum seekers from Latin America are living temporarily on the sidewalks surrounding the church, until they can arrange more stable housing with family or friends in the US. Without sufficient facilities in the church, they make do with what they can find. For Venezuelans, being cleaned and groomed is important. His asylum hearing isn t until November, on the east coast. He is hoping to stay with his cousin in Pennsylvania until he can start his own business in the US and bring his wife and four kids from Venezuela. El Paso US - ZUMAs li 20230513_new_s241_037 Copyright: xBelindaxSoncinix
May 13, 2023, El Paso, Texas, USA: BRYCE KINNAIORD, a 24-year-old medical assistant and Army Veteran from Horizon City, Texas, treats minor injuries and illnesses of asylum-seekers from Venezuela, who crossed the border from Juarez, Mexico this week with the lifting of Title 42. Kinnaiord decided to come down to help out when he learned about the migrants living on the sidewalk outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. He pays for the bandages, ointments and over-the-counter medications himself. He said I believe people should come here the right way, but since they are here in our country, helping them is the right thing for us to do. The most common things he has been seeing, he said, are dehydration, covid, colds and headache. He e - ZUMAs li 20230513_new_s241_036 Copyright: xBelindaxSoncinix
