Customs and Border Protection used to help asylum seekers make travel arrangements once they were released from detention. But that stopped a few months ago. Non-profits have picked up the slack, including a church in the Coachella desert that’s become a de facto migrant processing center.
Coachella Church Serves as Migrant Processing Center
Customs and Border Protection used to help asylum seekers make travel arrangements once they were released from detention. But that stopped a few months ago. Non-profits have picked up the slack, including a church in the Coachella desert that’s become a de facto migrant processing center.
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Children take part in a protest against U.S. immigration policies outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City on June 21, 2018. (Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)
