A few months ago, Kacie Jesus told us about the deportation of her husband Ray and its impact on her family. If you’d like to help the Jesus family out with the roughly $5000 it will cost them to pay off their legal expenses, get passports, and fly to Guatemala, email Kacie at kaciejesus@hotmail.com. Below . . .
Twenty-two years ago, at the age of fourteen, my husband Ray Jesus fled Guatemala on foot to save himself from being kidnapped or killed. His country was in the middle of a civil war, and the military had already killed tens of thousands of indigenous people just like Ray, including his eighteen-year-old brother-in-law. After living . . .
Did you do anything to be born where you were? If given the choice, most of us would pick wealthy, loving families in rich countries like Italy, France, the United States, or Canada. But we don’t get to pick. We don’t do anything to earn the blessings or misfortunes we are born with. Imagine being . . .
I am a fruit grower/marketer in western New York. My husband and I own and operate 250 acres–approximately 40,000 trees in production. Every individual piece of fruit that we and the thousands of other fruit growers need to have harvested must be handpicked. They must be handpicked by people with gentle and strong hands who . . .
Migration divides families. The most unfortunate cases are when a parent must leave a child behind in the home country in the care of grandparents or relatives. This is not at all uncommon. Among the roughly 12 million Mexican immigrants living in the United States (legally and illegally), in fact, an estimated 38 percent of . . .
The Tucson Samaritans are one of a number of groups that are working to prevent unnecessary deaths in the Arizona desert. My friend and colleague Bob Kee contributed the following piece to explain what the Samaritans do and what you can do to help. Prompted by mounting deaths, the Tucson Samaritans made its first trip . . .
Winner of the 2011 American Library Association Notable Video Award, "The Other Side of Immigration" explores the root causes of Mexican immigration like no other documentary.
