One Michigan rabbi’s mission in El Paso to help the immigrants was suddenly released by the U.S. Department of Defense over the weekend.
“For us, this is an issue of compassion, of safety, of child welfare,” said Michigan Rabbi Josh Whinston.
Whinston is traveling more than a thousand miles to see this the border.
“We want to raise the profile of whats going on here,” he said.
His mission: helping reunite families being held at the Tornillo tent city.
“A congregant called me telling me she was torn up about what was happening in Tornillo” Whinston said.
After that phone call, Whinston contacted everyone he knew from New York to Los Angeles, with many sharing his concern for the children being held in the tent city.
“We are just concerned that there is not oversight, enough education in Tornillo,” he said.
