Tag: Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV)

As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso.

The Texas Attorney General’s Office is continuing its efforts to depose Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, in its quest to uncover alleged criminal wrongdoing by the religious nonprofit.

South Texas border communities that offer services to migrants will be receiving additional support from the federal government in the form of nearly $18 million.

A state district judge has knocked down an attempt by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to depose Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in a bid to suss out information on alleged human smuggling.

EDINBURG — Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley is fighting against efforts by the Texas Attorney General’s Office to investigate the religious nonprofit over claims that it may be participating in human trafficking.

A scathing ruling by a judge in El Paso calling the Texas Attorney General’s Office’s lawsuit against a migrant shelter there as “outrageous and intolerable” hasn’t stopped the state from pursuing legal action against one of the country’s most well-known nonprofits that assists asylum seekers: Catholic Charities in McAllen.

McALLEN (AP) — A judge blasted efforts by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to shutter one of the oldest and largest migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border in a scathing ruling Tuesday, accusing the Republican of "outrageous" conduct over his claims that the shelter encourages migrants to enter the country illegally.

Several Rio Grande Valley cities and humanitarian aid groups will soon receive millions in additional federal funding to help pay for providing humanitarian services to undocumented migrants.

A drag show fundraiser to benefit the Comfort House in McAllen, a hospice facility for the terminally ill, has been targeted for harassment.

By BERENICE GARCIA and VALERIE GONZALEZ Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley reversed course on plans to expand their respite center in McAllen, explaining...