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A recent trip to the border city of Nogales, Sonora, provides the context for my introductory comments for Family Relations’ special issue on Latino Families. The trip was coordinated through BorderLinks , an organization based in Tucson, Arizona, devoted to immersion education on the U.S./Mexico border. Walking the dirt streets of a colonia (neighborhood) with colleagues from the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family , I witnessed the abject poverty of the region. Together, four of us and our BorderLinks guide shared a modest lunch with a local family in their particle board shack and visited area social welfare agencies. One of our stops was “Grupo Beta,” a Mexican government organization that works to assist migrants who are unsuccessful in their attempts to cross the border to the United States. In the small orange building that houses this agency, migrants receive noodle soup and 25% of the funds toward a bus ticket in order to return them to their places of origin. All the clientele on this particular day (approximately 15) were male, some of whom were still children, and most of whom were fathers. All were penniless having already paid the $3,000 –$4,000 to the guide entrusted
Family Relations – Wiley
Published: Jul 1, 2006
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