A growing shelter response at the U.S.–Mexico border
NPR reported on the changing dynamics of migration at the U.S.–Mexico border and the growth of Casa Alitas in Tucson as more families needed short-term humanitarian support after release.
Diego Javier Pina Lopez described the shelter's roots in a 2014 response at the Tucson bus station and its progression through increasingly larger spaces. He also recounted the compressed timeline for opening the former Benedictine Monastery.
The reporting places Casa Alitas within a broader border story while documenting the local infrastructure required to offer showers, meals, medical screening, clothing, rest, and travel coordination before families continued to sponsors elsewhere in the United States.
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