As migrants pour into El Paso, Albuquerque lends a hand

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It was a morning to celebrate: A group of volunteers had transformed, on short notice, a budget hotel into a shelter for migrant families.

And they had done it 50 times.

A delivery of Salvadoran food was on its way for families from Guatemala, Venezuela and Ecuador. Theirs was the 50th bus received by the Albuquerque group in an effort to aid asylum seekers and alleviate pressure at the border as increased migration stresses shelter capacity in El Paso.