The news article “Shelters And City Governments Scramble To Help Migrants In The Rio Grande Valley” was found on the National Public Radio, also known as, NPR. This article was written by Reynaldo Leanos Jr. and was published on April 7, 2019. NPR is known to be a neutral but slightly left leaning bias on the media bias chart.
This article recounts the details of having to help and accommodate the amount of migrants crossing over. The article states, “More than 76,000 people were apprehended or surrendered on the Southern border in February and administration officials project that number to surpass 100,000 for March. The highest number of crossings are taking place in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.” The article provided a lot of factual information and it also had quotes from multiple sources who are in the Rio Grande Valley trying to help the migrants cross over. Leanos writes about the process that most migrants have to go through when they are are the valley. For example, migrants are brought to the Good Neighbor Settlement House, a homeless shelter in Brownsville, Texas, for a short period of time and they can shower, eat, and get clean clothes.
A quote that stood out to me in the article was “… the real crisis isn’t with people asking for asylum, it’s with the immigration system itself.” This quote is resonating because that is the reason for why migrants are having a harder time with gaining asylum. Leanos states, “[In the past] a person could claim for asylum based on abuse of a violent spouse. Or because of violence inflicted by the gangs that are destabilizing much of Central America.” However, asylum-seekers are continuously coming across the border to gain abetter life in the United States and the people in the Rio Grande Valley will continue to help them.