Yuma is dumping refugees in a Walmart parking lot and they're being left to fend for themselves...
Small Arizona congregation reaches out to women and children seeking refuge
Written by Emily Schappacher
July 17, 2014
At 7 p.m. on a recent Saturday evening, the Rev. Alberta Wallace received a text message that took her a few minutes to fully comprehend. Sent from the community organizer of Yuma County Interfaith, a coalition of churches and nonprofits in Yuma County, Ariz., the message said that 16 women and children seeking refuge in the United States had been dropped off by U.S. Border Patrol in the parking lot of a local Walmart with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Soon after, the pastor of Yuma United Church of Christ and six members of her small congregation were among a group of volunteers who provided much-needed assistance to these refugees well into the night.
"If I hadn't lived it, I wouldn't even believe it," said Wallace. "You immediately go into crisis mode. Looking at their faces, you know these people really needed our help."
The 10 women and six children were spotted by a member of a local Catholic church who was shopping at Walmart and knew that "something wasn't right," Wallace said. After speaking with the women, she alerted her priest, who contacted the Yuma County Interfaith community organizer, who then reached out to the rest of the coalition. Each organization rallied to provide the resources they had available – one church provided housing for the night, another group provided transportation, Yuma UCC provided clothing, toiletries, diapers, water and food. Individuals offered their cell phones so the women could contact family members in the U.S. who bought them bus tickets, and another organization provided access to the computers and printers used to print them.
Each woman and child had been apprehended, detained, processed and released, and had probation papers allowing them to stay in the U.S. until their scheduled court dates. But with court dates in places as far away as Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami, and with no money or access to phones or transportation, they had little chance of getting where they were required to be. It was clear they hadn't had a shower or a proper meal in days, Wallace said, adding that one woman's three-month-old baby had a 104-degree fever. But with the help of volunteers from Yuma County Interfaith, each person was fed, clothed, provided access to showers, medical care and a safe place to sleep, and were on their way to connect with family within 48 hours.
http://www.ucc.org/news/arizona-congregation-refugee-children-07102014.html
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The border patrol is operating like these people are dust bunnies that they can sweep under the rug. Out of sight out of mind. This is a humanitarian crisis 
I don't understand how it is okay for the Border Patrol to just dump these people in the middle of a town. 
Thank you to the Yuma County Interfaith for this amazing work.
Today's forecast for Yuma, Az -
High 106 °F
Low 80 °F
Yes, by all means send in more Border Patrol - they are exactly what is needed 
because hanging out in 106* with little shade on asphalt (which absorbs heat) is such a humane thing to do
We stopped in Yuma on our way to Cali for the 4th of July. My dog couldn't even walk on that asphalt because it was burning her paws.
What kind of people would do this?
TG that there are still people out there that actually have love in their hearts.
