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Cities along the U.S.-Mexico border are setting in motion humanitarian efforts including emergency shelter, food and transportation services ahead of an expected dramatic increase in the number of asylum-seekers as pandemic-era immigration restrictions are set to expire this week

While Erick Martínez Juárez was growing up, he and his family received health care through the Emory Farmworker Project. The experience helped inspire him to become a doctor, and on Dec. 16, he shared his story with the Physician Assistant Class of 2022 as their commencement speaker.

By 13 December 2020, 12:19 UTC Juana Tabora knew she had to help her neighbours when the water began to flood the streets, blocking the exits in La Lima, her city in northwestern Honduras. “We were surrounded by water, people started saying ‘help us, we want to come in’, so we opened the door downstairs so that people could get in,” says Tabora, the owner of a two-storey funeral home that she turned into an improvised shelter. Around 30 families took refuge there after l...