Gracias por la Vida
Wed, Jan 15 On the Job It’s the first day and we got right to work. Jack took us across the border to the Migrant Resource Center and we immediately did two accompaniments. First, we escorted one young man from the tent on the border wall to our center, and then a young man and his little girl (under two years old). The walk doesn’t take even five minutes, but the streets are dangerous for these migrants. Likely to be hanging around are men who are prone to kidnap a migrant for the sake of getting a ransom from his or her family. Of course, the danger is even greater for women who are at risk of also being raped. We hope to make migrants safer with our presence. On the walks today, I found myself being very alert, checking out the men on the streets, trying to assess how trustworthy they were. Jack says we should probably just be suspicious of everyone. It’s an uncomfortable feeling. We’re like a little team of nonviolent bodyguards on guard against a...