Makeshift camps have formed close to the border in Mexico, where people wait their turn for a hearing on U.S. soil

The group, which included 14 children and teens, arrived in Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos Dec. 4.

Many in Tijuana have lived for months at crowded shelters, sleeping on floors, with little access to public health clinics.

The human rights activist Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy, finds both heartache and heroism during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Jakelin Caal Maquin died in December 2018 at the El Paso Children's Hospital in Texas of a bacterial infection

Since February 2016, Sant’Egidio has been able to bring 3,026 refugees into Europe using humanitarian corridors. Italy, thanks to the commitment of its episcopal conference and Protestant community, has welcomed the majority of the refugees brought in by Sant’Egidio, reaching a total of 2,448, most of them from Lebanon and Ethiopia.