They struggle to come to America: One woman’s story
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Exactly what causes people to leave their homeland and make a difficult trek of 3,000 miles? A young woman I’ll…
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Just outside Durango, Colorado there’s a trailer park called Westside that I’ve been driving by all my life. Yet residents…
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What I found is the volunteers here are the unsung heroes doing the real work of humanitarian aid — and who, by the very nature of what they do, often prefer to remain silent.
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I recently spent two days with a Mexican national named Alfredo because his experience and many of his surprising opinions…
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