There are summer days in El Paso when it gets so hot that the sky crumbles into rain. It seems to come out of nowhere. That day, the sky was getting cloudy, then darker, as we drove the 15 minutes out to Sunland. On the Juárez side, they beat us to the spot. We arrived along with another car driven …
Immigration Advocacy from Charlotte, NC to the Border
By Angelica "Lica" Acosta Garnett I was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. At age 17, after graduating from high school, I moved to the United States with my parents and two sisters. I left all of the people I had ever known, my culture, my traditions, my language and my home to move to this …
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Without Walls or Borders
by Christina Foor One beautiful piece of the Gospel is how God weaves together stories of people from all different backgrounds. In a small migrant shelter in Juarez, Mexico, people from several divergent worlds gathered together – Cuban asylum seekers, college students from both sides of the …
