{"id":131161,"date":"2024-06-10T02:53:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T02:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=131161"},"modified":"2024-06-10T02:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T02:53:36","slug":"this-catholic-leader-shelters-migrants-texas-says-he-runs-stash-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=131161","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Catholic leader shelters migrants. Texas says he runs \u2018stash houses.\u2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2024\/06\/06\/texas-border-abbott-immigration-shelters\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE3NjQ2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE5MDI4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTc2NDY0MDAsImp0aSI6ImQzMjUxNThkLWJlNWEtNGUzZi1hOThiLTQ5YTczMDQ2ZTgyYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vMjAyNC8wNi8wNi90ZXhhcy1ib3JkZXItYWJib3R0LWltbWlncmF0aW9uLXNoZWx0ZXJzLyJ9.yrA24q9XlHzWpQe0BY8qRXRXa56DFRcWkDcPL_jqCE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Who might take him in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow could I say no?\u201d recounted Ruben Garcia, looking at Wilson, who sat in a wheelchair before him. \u201cThere was no one else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The influential patriarchof Annunciation House, a faith-based network of shelters based in El Paso, Garcia has taken in tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants he calls \u201cguests\u201d for nearly five decades. Working in collaboration with U.S. immigration officials, he provides them food, clothes and a first home in the United States, and some of his expenses are reimbursed by the federal government. It\u2019s work he sees as a religious calling \u2014 to help the most vulnerable, no matter how they arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott(R)clamps down on illegal immigration, state investigators are raising questions about Garcia\u2019s humanitarian work. In court records, they contend that his shelters are \u201cstash houses\u201d sheltering the undocumented from authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Who might take him in? \u201cHow could I say no?\u201d recounted Ruben Garcia, looking at Wilson, who sat in a wheelchair before him. \u201cThere was no one else.\u201d The influential patriarchof Annunciation House, a faith-based network of shelters based in El Paso, Garcia has taken in tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants he calls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131162,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161\/revisions\/131162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}