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Local aid reaches immigrants
Houston high school mission team members helped Pastor Lee Romero (right) of the Johnson City First United Methodist Church and JC volunteer David Hamm unload the trailer and van filled with donations sent from here to help the asylum-seekers who are processed, documented, and released by the Border Patrol in Eagle Pass.
It was a packed van towing a packed trailer that rolled out of Johnson City Thursday and, a few hours later, rolled into Eagle Pass, on the Texas side of the border with Mexico. Inside were goods donated by generous Johnson City residents — clothes, shoes, tote bags — things the asylum-seekers needed once they were screened, documented, and released by the US Border Patrol. “As far as the government is concerned, once these people are processed and released, they’re on their own,
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