Border fence near El Paso. Photo: US Border Patrol.
On Saturday evening, May 6, an unconfirmed report of a man with a long rife lurking about near the Sacred Heart Church in Segundo Barrio spread among encamped migrants. Earlier in the day, another man suspected of neo-Nazi leanings had gunned down nine people in a commercial mall located in Allen, Texas, hundreds of miles to the north. Worse yet, a driver plowed into a crowd of Venezuelan asylum seekers the next day in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight. Such is the state of the nation asylum seekers fleeing violence confront in 2023.