Thread: Planes carrying 130 illegal aliens land in El Paso

Planes carrying 130 undocumented immigrants land in El Paso

By Luis Carlos Lopez / El Paso Times
POSTED: 06/07/2014 10:57:41 PM MDT

FILE - In this May 29, 2014 file photo, Maria Eva Casco, left, and her son Christian Casco of El Salvador, sit at at the Greyhound bus terminal, Thursday, May 29, 2014 in Phoenix. Central American families arrested in Texas will continue to be flown to Arizona, and hundreds of unaccompanied minors a day are being shipped to a federal detention center in the southern part of the state, Gov. Jan Brewer's spokesman says. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)


Two planes carrying undocumented families apprehended in South Texas arrived in El Paso Saturday, officials said.

Ramiro Cordero, spokesman for the Border Patrol El Paso sector, said two flights carrying 130 people landed in El Paso.

He said the immigrants would be processed at different locations in the El Paso sector.

Monsignor Arturo Bañuelas, pastor of St. Pius X Parish in El Paso, said the immigrants arrived in the morning.

One immigrant passed through El Paso on a bus from Phoenix.

"Ruben Garcia is trying to bring together people from the community to respond to this urgent need," Bañuelas said.

Garcia is the executive director of Annunciation House, which helps undocumented immigrants in El Paso.

Annunciation House is planning a news conference Monday to discuss how it plans to help the undocumented families who will be released from immigration processing centers and transferred to El Paso.

Garcia refused to provide any details about numbers and the scale of their efforts and said he needed time to organize a prompt and effective response.

Garcia added that the information that immigration officials would be dropping off undocumented families at the Downtown Greyhound station was incorrect. "Immigration is looking at sending some people to El Paso. ... In other words, I can't tell you what immigration is planning to do or not to do. We know that we are going to respond," he said.

Bañuelas said they would collect cots, food and money for the immigrant families who will arrive in El Paso and then travel elsewhere.

The immigrants released in the U.S., including those in El Paso, will have to report to immigration officials within 15 days as directed by federal authorities, the Associated Press reported.

"Immigrants apprehended crossing the border in South Texas will be flown to El Paso so Border Patrol can assist with processing. The vast majority of individuals transferred were family units from Central America and Mexico with children," an El Paso official said.

On Saturday, Maria, who preferred not to give her last name and the names of her two daughters, stopped at the El Paso Greyhound station Downtown.

Maria is a Guatemalan undocumented immigrant. She said she was too nervous to remember dates and details of how and where she was detained.

She added that she was on her way to Tennessee to reunite with her sister.

Maria said that before being released from immigration custody, immigration officials communicated with her sister to arrange travel plans to Tennessee.

"Immigration told me, 'You are free, you can leave,' " Maria said.

She added that she left Guatemala on May 25 and that she was arrested on Thursday. Maria, who said she did not have any money for food for family, said she was found in the desert and that she was still nervous about traveling.

"I'm a little scared," Maria said in Spanish. "Now, we are here without money," she said.

Maria said she is supposed to meet with immigration officials July 8.
Luis Carlos Lopez may be reached at 546-6381.

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Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Planes carrying 130 undocumented immigrants land in El Paso

By Luis Carlos Lopez / El Paso Times
POSTED: 06/07/2014 10:57:41 PM MDT

FILE - In this May 29, 2014 file photo, Maria Eva Casco, left, and her son Christian Casco of El Salvador, sit at at the Greyhound bus terminal, Thursday, May 29, 2014 in Phoenix. Central American families arrested in Texas will continue to be flown to Arizona, and hundreds of unaccompanied minors a day are being shipped to a federal detention center in the southern part of the state, Gov. Jan Brewer's spokesman says. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)


Two planes carrying undocumented families apprehended in South Texas arrived in El Paso Saturday, officials said.

Ramiro Cordero, spokesman for the Border Patrol El Paso sector, said two flights carrying 130 people landed in El Paso.

He said the immigrants would be processed at different locations in the El Paso sector.

Monsignor Arturo Bañuelas, pastor of St. Pius X Parish in El Paso, said the immigrants arrived in the morning.

One immigrant passed through El Paso on a bus from Phoenix.

"Ruben Garcia is trying to bring together people from the community to respond to this urgent need," Bañuelas said.

Garcia is the executive director of Annunciation House, which helps undocumented immigrants in El Paso.

Annunciation House is planning a news conference Monday to discuss how it plans to help the undocumented families who will be released from immigration processing centers and transferred to El Paso.

Garcia refused to provide any details about numbers and the scale of their efforts and said he needed time to organize a prompt and effective response.

Garcia added that the information that immigration officials would be dropping off undocumented families at the Downtown Greyhound station was incorrect. "Immigration is looking at sending some people to El Paso. ... In other words, I can't tell you what immigration is planning to do or not to do. We know that we are going to respond," he said.

Bañuelas said they would collect cots, food and money for the immigrant families who will arrive in El Paso and then travel elsewhere.

The immigrants released in the U.S., including those in El Paso, will have to report to immigration officials within 15 days as directed by federal authorities, the Associated Press reported.

"Immigrants apprehended crossing the border in South Texas will be flown to El Paso so Border Patrol can assist with processing. The vast majority of individuals transferred were family units from Central America and Mexico with children," an El Paso official said.

On Saturday, Maria, who preferred not to give her last name and the names of her two daughters, stopped at the El Paso Greyhound station Downtown.

Maria is a Guatemalan undocumented immigrant. She said she was too nervous to remember dates and details of how and where she was detained.

She added that she was on her way to Tennessee to reunite with her sister.

Maria said that before being released from immigration custody, immigration officials communicated with her sister to arrange travel plans to Tennessee.

"Immigration told me, 'You are free, you can leave,' " Maria said.

She added that she left Guatemala on May 25 and that she was arrested on Thursday. Maria, who said she did not have any money for food for family, said she was found in the desert and that she was still nervous about traveling.

"I'm a little scared," Maria said in Spanish. "Now, we are here without money," she said.

Maria said she is supposed to meet with immigration officials July 8.
Luis Carlos Lopez may be reached at 546-6381.

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