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Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Andrea Aswahy.

And I'm Yasmin Ambermer. We hear so many stories of the

chaos at the southern border children being separated from their parents

people waiting months for a judge to hear their asylum cases and

dangerous sometimes fatal attempts to cross into the US. But within the

heartbreak we also found stories of humanity and kindness.

And we at Kind World wanted to share just a few of them with you.

So we traveled to Brownsville, a city right on the edge of Texas bordering Matamoros, Mexico.

There, we met the volunteers who have become the lifeline for hundreds of asylum seekers. 50 year old Brownsville native Mike Benavides and a group of seven volunteers are at

La Plaza bus station dressed for the blistering summer heat, getting ready to cross the border into

Matamoros, about half a mile away. They've got wagons loaded with food, water, and what they call dignity bags.

They call dignity bags because they're desperately needed.

Soaps, shampoos, some deodorant hygiene items.

So we've got 500 here.

A lot of the volunteers are first timers, but Mike, he's a regular.

He's one of a handful of locals who founded a network of volunteers called Team Brownsville last year.

They started out by bringing food and water to dozens of asylum seekers waiting at the border.

I'd wake up before work and I'd load up a wagon with coffee and water and I'd load up another with tacos from stripes and I'd

cross over and spend a little time there and then you know I just since that day I

just never stopped. By December Mike Benavides was crossing the border into Matamoros twice a day, seven days a week,

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