CNN-Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers dropped off more than 200 undocumented immigrants outside a Greyhound bus terminal in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday night without an apparent plan for housing them. The waiting area at the bus terminal is small, Police Sgt. Gomez said, and many people were left standing outside in the cold. He said the group of 211 undocumented immigrants included some families and small children.

Four buses later arrived for people to board and stay warm, he said. "We weren't going to put 200 people on the streets of El Paso on a cold night. We wouldn't do that," Gomez said.

Authorities found housing for the migrants, including at a hotel and a nearby Catholic school, Gomez said.

This is the news I woke up to this morning after 400 refugees were already housed yesterday through a number of local shelters, including Annunciation House, and all are maxed out for the number of beds they have available. The situation here on the border is at a Crisis State. I am constantly left with the question of why?! Why am I safe, why do I have a choice for a life and why am I free to go where I wish without any boundaries??

I was reading this reflection from Pope Francis when he came to the U.S., he reflected on the Holy Family’s arrival in Bethlehem, where they discovered there was no shelter for them. It caused me to to be grateful that Emmanuel is among us, even in the midst of such darkness and for the invitation “to love, to be compassionate, and to live in service of another.”

Pope Francis said, “We can imagine what Joseph must have been thinking… How is it that the Son of God has no home? Why are we homeless, why don’t we have housing?” Saint Joseph’s simple questions echo in the minds of those who serve the poor even today.

“Like Saint Joseph, you may ask: Why do these, our brothers and sisters, have no place to live? Why are these brothers and sisters of ours homeless? These are questions which all of us might well ask,” the Pope said.

Saint Joseph never hesitated to ask questions in the face in injustice and suffering, the Pope said. But what set Saint Joseph apart was his faith in God, which gave him “the power to find light just at the moment when everything seemed dark.”

“Faith sustained him amid the troubles of life,” Francis reflected. “Thanks to faith, Joseph was able to press forward when everything seemed to be holding him back.” In the same way, faith can sustain the poor and give meaning to suffering, the Pope said.

“In the face of unjust and painful situations, faith brings us the light which scatters the darkness. As it did for Joseph, faith makes us open to the quiet presence of God at every moment of our lives, in every person and in every situation. God is present in every one of you, in each one of us.”

“Faith makes us know that God is at our side, that God is in our midst and his presence spurs us to charity. Charity is born of the call of a God who continues to knock on our door, the door of all people, to invite us to love, to compassion, to service of one another.”

On this Christmas eve let us celebrate, “ for today a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests."

Wishing you Christmas peace & hope,

Donna