The Regional Center for Border Health in Yuma County has been helping migrants on their journey by setting up a transition center. This center provides assistance to migrants once they are released by Border Patrol agents and their asylum requests are being processed. ABC15 and Scripps News have launched a special series on life along the U.S.-Mexico border.
There's a group in Yuma County that's providing a critical resource for the community when it comes to helping prevent street releases when we are seeing a surge in migrant crossings at the border.
For the past three years, the Regional Center for Border Health in Somerton has helped hundreds of thousands of migrants by setting up a transition center to assist migrants on the next leg of their journey once they are released by Border Patrol agents and their asylum requests play out in immigration court. By the busload they arrive — hundreds of migrants, all coming from different places, with different fears, and different circumstances in their lives — but they all have the same dream, the American dream. ABC15 and Scripps News have launched this special series taking an in-depth look at life along the U.S.-Mexico border. Click here for full coverage. You can see just how exhausting the 3,000-mile journey from Bogota, Colombia, has been for Joanna Pena and her young daughter, Celeste. Joanna says in her home country, they live under constant threats from area gang
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