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Socorro Catholic churches unite residents over ICE detention center, water concerns

Socorro Catholic churches unite residents over ICE detention center, water concerns
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SOCORRO, Texas – In the 1980s, Maria Estella Padilla went door to door after Mass, organizing house meetings to bring running water and sewerage services to hundreds of thousands of homes along the Texas-Mexico border. Today, at 82, she’s back to organizing her neighbors and fellow parishioners a...

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