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Inside the migrant shelter at the Benedictine Monastery
TUCSON, Ariz. — Volunteers will tell you there's no such thing as an average day at the Benedictine Monastery in Tucson.
On a Tuesday afternoon in May, families met with volunteers in the chapel to go over immigration documents while others waited in a nearby room to get a medical exam.
One woman KGUN9 met traveled from Guatemala with her 8-year-old daughter. She says it took them 11 days to get to the U.S.-Mexico border from her home country.
"For me the country [Guatemala] is very beautiful, the hard part is that there's a lot of violence," she said in Spanish. "And if you live in one of those areas you don't earn anything, you live only for food."
On a Tuesday afternoon in May, families met with volunteers in the chapel to go over immigration documents while others waited in a nearby room to get a medical exam.
One woman KGUN9 met traveled from Guatemala with her 8-year-old daughter. She says it took them 11 days to get to the U.S.-Mexico border from her home country.
"For me the country [Guatemala] is very beautiful, the hard part is that there's a lot of violence," she said in Spanish. "And if you live in one of those areas you don't earn anything, you live only for food."
https://www.kgun9.com/border-watch/inside-the-migrant-shelter-at-the-benedictine-monastery
