Migrant & Refugee Stories

Picture a man, a woman, a boy, a girl. They are asylum seekers from the southern border.

OMAHA — After fleeing their homeland and traversing six countries by plane, bus, train and on foot, the Cuban family of five still hadn’t found the pay and political freedom they sought.

Asylum seekers from as far away as Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Sierra Leone are building new lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with the help of sisters representing three different religious communities

In 2014, things at the U.S. southern border seemed as bad as they could get.

OMAHA — A charter bus carrying 39 asylum seekers from seven countries arrived Tuesday in Omaha, where local volunteers temporarily will host the group that was part of an overflow at the U.S.

OMAHA — A team of Omahans is preparing to offer temporary refuge to a busload of asylum-seeking migrants crossing the Texas border at a rate that has overwhelmed shelters and has had some sleeping

When J and M and their three children arrived on the doorstep of the Juan Diego Center in Omaha last July it had started to rain.

In November of 2022, in response to a call for assistance from Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House in El Paso, a non-profit Omaha Welcomes the Stranger (OWS) was formed.