Authorities said June 29 the death toll had risen to at least 53. Originally, first responders pulled 16 people alive from the rig, including 12 adults and four teenagers.
Archbishop asks church to be in solidarity with migrants who died in truck
Local Benedictine sisters provide humanitarian support at U.S.-Mexico border
The four sisters from St. Benedict’s Monastery assisted asylum-seekers with basic needs while listening and learning from their stories.
Supreme Court rules Border Patrol agent can’t be sued for shooting teen
In a 5-4 vote Feb. 25, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a U.S. Border Patrol agent could not be sued for the 2010 shooting death of a Mexican teenager on the Mexican side of the border.
Bishop troubled by acquittal of border agent charged in teen’s death
An Arizona bishop called a jury’s decision to acquit a U.S. Border Patrol agent of murder in the 2012 shooting of a 16-year-old Mexican teenager at the U.S. border “deeply troubling” and something that “raises serious issues of justice and accountability.”