by Jennie Taer at Daily Caller News Foundation
- Luis Rey Garcia Villagran, the leader of several recent migrant caravans, spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation about why and how he works with the groups.
- Previously, Villagran dealt with Mexican judicial police, who arrested him in 1997 for alleged kidnapping and conspiracy — crimes he said were falsified and of which he was later cleared.
- Villagran started his organization, the Center for Human Dignity, with the reparations he was paid after the years he spent in jail, leading the most recent U.S.-bound caravan.
The leader of recent migrant caravans has helped bring thousands of people through Mexico on a mission he says is driven by God, he told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Luis Rey Garcia Villagran told the DCNF that he’s directly helped 40,000 migrants cross into the United States through caravans he’s led since September 2021, believing it’s his duty to God. He’s done so through the work of his organization, the Center for Human Dignity.
“We are Evangelical Christians. We try to help people least protected, especially women and child migrants. Simply, we apply what is in the law,” Villagran said, adding that he doesn’t receive any financing from anyone for the caravans.
Villagran’s latest group started to gain attention…
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