About this time last year, I visited a migrant respite center in McAllen, Texas, run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, the charitable arm of the Diocese of Brownsville. Sister Norma Pimentel helped established the center in 2014, at the height of the unaccompanied minor crisis, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was overwhelmed with thousands of children and teenagers turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents.
Border Security
Claudia Sheinbaum Leads Mexico into Confrontation
Her government is now on a collision course with both the United States and with basic Mexican democratic civics. It’s easy to feel sorry for Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has the misfortune of presiding over the worst crisis in U.S.–Mexican relations in a century. The crisis has been building since the April 19 deaths of...
June 5, 2026