"I'm very pleased and happy for the families that I have accompanied for almost three years. I've seen their suffering and how desperate they are," Sister Norma Pimentel, who has been helping asylum-seekers stranded in Mexico, told CBS News.
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Pimentel said she expects to receive some of the newly admitted asylum-seekers and offer them temporary support and housing at a shelter in McAllen, Texas before they are able to travel to their respective destinations in the U.S.
Taylor Levy, an immigration lawyer who has provided legal advice to migrants stranded in Mexico, said the U.S. government should also offer other asylum-seekers not eligible for the first phase of the Biden administration's plan a chance to have their cases reviewed in the U.S.
"They want to have their day in court — but they want to have a just process. And so many people who were ordered deported were ordered deported because they were trying to fight their life or death case while living in deplorable horrific conditions," @taylorklevy told CBS News.
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