Migrant shelters that helped nearly a thousand asylum seekers per day at the height of migrant crossings just a few years ago are now nearly empty.
The shelters mostly along the Texas-Mexico border reported a plunge in the number of people in their care since the Trump administration effectively closed the border to asylum seekers in January. Some expect to close by the end of the month.
McAllen officials reported an average of fewer than 12 people arriving at the respite center run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley this month and are on track to have fewer than 350 people in February. In January, the respite center received a total of 3,188 people.
Sure, they find ways to explain their belief rather than letting evidence decide their beliefs. It’s easy to find a pattern in something that doesn’t have a pattern, when you can just make up some random nonsense connection between two things.
“This thing here, and this unrelated thing here are connected together with ‘god’ and therefore my belief, that works in my favor, is true”