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“Tearing Down the Dividing Wall”: Improvising Reconciliation on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Published by Esther Terry

It all began with a couple of nuns serving meals out of the trunk of their car. The food was for hungry people who arrived in Nogales, Sonora, deported from the United States to Mexico. Every day the sisters would prepare as much food as they could carry and drive to the border’s port of entry, where daily busses would leave bewildered immigrants in an unfamiliar city. Today, this operation has ev...