7 Things Only Borderlanders Will Understand
#1 If you don’t pay attention while driving, you could end up in Mexico.
#1 If you don’t pay attention while driving, you could end up in Mexico.
The national conversation on family separation is at a high pitch right now. Youth Radio’s team covering the border spoke with young people from El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico–who grew up never seeing the border as a dividing line.
14-year-old James came with his mom from Brazil to seek asylum in the US. When they crossed the border, they were arrested, detained, and separated for nine months.
Two college students take us inside their summer job: living and working with migrant families in a shelter at the Texas border.