Thread by @TexasTribune

1/ This is Elena.

She and her husband shelter as many migrants as they can in their two-bedroom Ciudad Juárez home, protecting them from criminals who prey upon U.S. asylum seekers in the city.

She’s risking her own safety to do it. bit.ly/2OrcJOy

2/ Under Trump's “metering” policy, more than 10,000 asylum seekers have been sent back to Ciudad Juárez to await their court hearings.

Asylum seekers have described being extorted, assaulted and raped by criminals after being returned to Mexico. bit.ly/2OrcJOy

3/ Elena knows the danger migrants face. Five years ago, Mexican police officers broke into her home and attacked her husband when they suspected she was illegally harboring migrants. bit.ly/2OrcJOy

4/ “They beat him up, they put a bag over his face and they tried to make him say that he’s from Honduras and he had fake papers.” bit.ly/2OrcJOy

5/ Elena, a Mexican citizen, lives with her Honduran husband. Her son, who is away, asked her to rent out his property.

But Elena decided to offer it as a safe haven to some of her husband’s countrymen. bit.ly/2OrcJOy

6/ “I do it because it makes me sad to see so many people in the streets. They have kids and they don’t have enough to eat.”

Read the rest of Elena's story: bit.ly/2OrcJOy