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Unloading donations for Cuban immigrants stranded on US-Mexico border

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Laura Rodriguez helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.

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Laura Rodriguez helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.