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Yemeni man captured by Houthis after deportation from US

People walking shackled

A Yemeni man fleeing persecution requested asylum in the U.S. ICE deported him as the Trump administration bombed Yemen. Deported by the U.S., captured by the Houthi militia, and tortured in Mexico, there are few places left for Ali to turn

California sisters form coalition to help migrants on border

Sr. Suzanne Jabro receives a hug from a woman in Mexicali, Mexico. he Border Compassion ministry she founded. The organization is part of a coalition of women religious formed to help migrants on both sides of the border.

As organizations that help migrants and refugees find themselves under fire, more than two dozen U.S. congregations of women religious have pledged up to $300,000 to help the work of sisters who serve in immigration-related ministries on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.

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