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Emelina Rosa

Emelina Rosa is a long-time resident of the US-Mexico border area who recently began volunteering once a week at the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta, Mexico, across the border from Douglas, Arizona.

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The Border Scene on Lockdown & Reasons Why People Migrate

April 25, 2020 Emelina Rosa 1 Comment

Agua Prieta is quiet, there is a dusk-to-dawn curfew and the municipality supports the shutdown. The long lines at the border crossing have vanished.

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News from the Mexico-US Border Amid Covid-19

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Emelina Rosa 2 Comments

Hundreds of protesters gathered in a car caravan at the Eloy, Arizona migrant detention center to demand immediate freedom for all migrants and refugees.

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Protestors Fight Back against Efforts to Ban “Sanctuary Cities”

February 28, 2020 Emelina Rosa 1 Comment

I challenge our state legislators to visit one of the detention camps maintained by ICE and tell us how many gang members are there.

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Singing Down the Wall

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Emelina Rosa 0 Comments

Every summer I sing with a chorus during the annual Concert without Borders, an event staged on both sides of the Mexico/U.S. border at once.

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Café Justo: Caffeine with a Conscience

January 20, 2020 Emelina Rosa 0 Comments

Last week I escorted a group of three US citizens, one visiting from Tucson and the other two from Pennsylvania, to Agua Prieta, Sonora.

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Tell Me How It Ends

January 8, 2020 Emelina Rosa 1 Comment

By Emelina Rosa HAVANA TIMES – Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions is the name of

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A Shift at the Migrant Resource Center

December 27, 2019 Emelina Rosa 2 Comments

I show up at 11:00 a.m. for my shift at the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.

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“They’re Fencing Us Out”

December 21, 2019December 21, 2019 Emelina Rosa 0 Comments

Emelina Rosa writes about one of her recent trips to the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta, Mexico, where she volunteers once a week.

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Why I Volunteer

December 16, 2019 Emelina Rosa 0 Comments

Claudia’s name is written on a little card on my fridge. One and a half years ago, that death was emblematic, now there have been so many more.

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“Watch the rooftops…”

December 10, 2019December 11, 2019 Emelina Rosa 0 Comments

“Watch the rooftops and get to know the lookouts for the cartel,” said John at the training session for volunteers at the Migrant Resource Center.

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