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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.

The Border Scene on Lockdown & Reasons Why People Migrate

April 25, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

“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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