The Border Scene on Lockdown & Reasons Why People Migrate
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.
Read MoreEmelina 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.
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.
Read MoreHundreds of protesters gathered in a car caravan at the Eloy, Arizona migrant detention center to demand immediate freedom for all migrants and refugees.
Read MoreI challenge our state legislators to visit one of the detention camps maintained by ICE and tell us how many gang members are there.
Read MoreEvery 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.
Read MoreLast 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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Read MoreI show up at 11:00 a.m. for my shift at the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.
Read MoreEmelina Rosa writes about one of her recent trips to the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta, Mexico, where she volunteers once a week.
Read MoreClaudia’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.
Read More“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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