Brownsville Herald: Amid influx, shelter tallies 8,000th client

Brownsville Herald

Brownsville Herald: Amid influx, shelter tallies 8,000th client

By KAYLEIGH SOMMER Staff Writer SAN BENITO — Less than a year after La Posada Providencia reached 7,000 clients, the shelter recently welcomed its 8,000th client during an influx of immigrants arriving in the lower Rio Grande Valley — many of them from Central America. The surge has more than quadrupled the San Benito shelter’s