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The Mercy Justice Team is hosting two border immersion experiences in the fall of 2022.
Learn more and consider joining us: https://t.co/8ya4xIsi1N
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"I left with a broken heart, but also with deep gratitude to have met so many people at the border committed to doing whatever they can to make a difference in our world." #MercyForImmigrants #MercyForJustice
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"I left with a broken heart, but also with deep gratitude to have met so many people at the border committed to doing whatever they can to make a difference in our world." #MercyForImmigrants
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"I left with a broken heart, but also with deep gratitude to have met so many people at the border committed to doing whatever they can to make a difference in our world." #MercyForJustice #MercyForImmigrants
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To understand migration’s root causes, Sister Kathleen has led numerous trips to Honduras and other Central American countries.
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Sister Kathleen Erickson (in blue hat) and other members of the Sisters of Mercy border delegation in Sunland Park, NM, chat with people living in severe poverty in Anapra, Mexico.
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Wrapping her arms around the $15 billion border wall built by Trump, a woman in Anapra, Mexico, gazes into the United States.
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Lorena Andrade, director of La Mujer Obrera (The Woman Worker), says her organization challenges perceptions “that women are an infinite source of cheap labor” on the US/Mexico border.
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“Eat oppression-free food!” says Carlos Marentes, farm labor organizer and director of Sin Fronteras. Farmworkers receive 65 cents per bucket of chili peppers they pick on their knees; they need to fill 100 buckets a day to make minimum wage.
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Border immersion participants pose for a photo at Casa Vides by a mural that depicts people who lost their lives in El Salvador’s civil war and quotes Saint Óscar Romero:
“If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadorean People.”
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Sister Bea Donnellan directs Casa Vides Annunciation House, a place where people who are poor, undocumented, and the homeless receive care and hospitality. “I thought I would retire at 80 but couldn’t once I saw the need here.”
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Murals are everywhere in El Paso, including on Sacred Heart Church’s gym. Among this mural’s vibrant images is Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is shining a flashlight to help migrants safely cross the Rio Grande.
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A Border Patrol agent escorts a mother and children back to Juárez from the El Paso side of the Paso Del Norte International Bridge.
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This El Paso sculpture, "Bienvenido", represents “how welcoming the city is,” says a city official.
Yet countless migrants have been turned away from El Paso during the pandemic due to #Title42, a federal policy that denies entry to migrants. #MercyForImmigrants #MercyForJustice
Beauty bestrides the border, including in El Paso (first photo) and Juárez (second photo), which are separated not only by the Rio Grande but also by chain-link fences and high walls.
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A dozen people took part, including sisters, Mercy Associates, teachers at Mercy-sponsored schools and universities, and others interested in being in solidarity with migrants.
Here are some preliminary photos and videos of our encounters.
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To understand hope and suffering on the US/Mexico border, the Sisters of Mercy held a weeklong immersion experience last month in El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico.
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"A day after the tent city was bulldozed, we went to see its remains. Nothing was left of the people who had become our extended family and whose joys we celebrated and whose trauma we carried."
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"A day after the tent city was bulldozed, we went to see its remains. Nothing was left of the people who had become our extended family and whose joys we celebrated and whose trauma we carried."
#MercyForImmigrants #MercyForJustice
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"A day after the tent city was bulldozed, we went to see its remains. Nothing was left of the people who had become our extended family and whose joys we celebrated and whose trauma we carried."
#MercyForImmigrants #MercyForJustice
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