Yuliana Quiroz 
EDINBURG – Known for her service to the massive numbers of Central American families coming in through the South Texas border, Sister Norma Pimentel set foot on UTRGV ground giving her testimony on how she became involved in the religious life.
And why she has committed her life to the thousands of families who seek refuge here in the U.S.
Pimentel was one of the many panelists invited by Dr. Jose Villarreal, a faculty member from the Department of Sociology. We spoke to him previously and he tells us the call for the development of the event was for UTRGV to understand the suffering of migrant families after he says the conservative media has been showing only one viewpoint of the subject.
“We need more information and we need to stimulate interest in the plight of migrants so that perhaps we could have a more sensitive, a more humanitarian outlook on the whole situation of migration,” said Villarreal.
He said he wants people to become open minded about the fact the Central Americans are enduring forced migrations.
“And lots of times we don’t see, we don’t evaluate these migrations as forced migrations merely as illegal people coming over and trying to get asylum,” he continued.
Something that President Donald Trump has opposed saying that they are “illegal migrants trying to make their way into the United States.”
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