The Benedictine Sanctuary and Covenant of Perpetual Adoration monastery in Tucson has received about 8000 migrants in the past year. The migrants are provided with food and clothing. Relatives committed to taking them provide bus tickets.
The volunteers who help the migrants are almost all retired, including nurses, doctors, and teachers. Most don’t speak Spanish.
One of the volunteers, Stephen Thompson, said “It’s a wonderful common -cause effort. Everyone is just willing to do whatever needs to be done. There’s no top-down structure; nobody bossing anyone around.”
It is these people who make American great, not the dipwads who attend Trump rallies with their little red hats.
I took the information on the Tucson volunteers from Miriam Jordan, “The Retirees Taking Care of Migrants,” New York Times (May 29, 2019), p. 2.
Wow what a great cause that deserves or donations. How do we send them some money, I wonder. On another note, I downloaded the full, but redacted, Mueller Report. It is availabe on the DOJ website. I sent out a link via my facebook page, but thought you might wnat to get it out to our local folks CCDP, etc. https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
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