This blog began in my fall semester of 2011, when I am took a leave of absence from Georgetown University to serve recently deported migrants on the US/Mexico border with the Kino Border Initiative. Kino is a binational ministry intended to serve and accompany migrants as well as educate communities on both sides of the border. I was a few hundred yards from the border fence in Nogales, MX serving in a soup kitchen (el comedor) and a women’s and children’s shelter. But this blog was not about me. My presence in Nogales was nothing extraordinary. Instead, this blog was a place to tell the stories of the border, the incredible people whom I met and the grace of a loving God.
I returned to my junior year at Georgetown in January of 2012, but have not yet been ready to stop writing. I continue to study migration and continue to serve in migrant communities here in DC. And people continue to migrate. And suffering, hope, and joy continue to exist. So I keep writing. About the lives of the people I meet and the realities of the world in which we all engage.
This blog is no longer truly “from la frontera.” Now it is from many fronteras. From DC. From Denver. And I will be writing from Veracruz (in southern Mexico) this summer (2012).
I understand that immigration is an incredibly complex and controversial issue. And I do, to the best of my ability, recognize the differing viewpoints on what I will post. But my stories have a perspective and show strong opinions. So please feel free to disagree. But most of all please continue to read and reflect.
