Commentary: The border the US shares with Mexico? We really share it with the world
by Jesse Hardman, Los Angeles Times
Apr 14, 2022
4 minutes
About 15 years ago I was shadowing a local journalist on Peru’s northern coast who was reporting on a group of 20 Chinese nationals local police found lost in the nearby desert. They’d arrived on a container ship that sailed from China to Lima and had paid traffickers to get them to Ecuador. From there they planned to fly to Panama and make their way to the U.S.-Mexico border. The fact that people were willing to cross an ocean in a shipping container and traverse parts of two continents on foot and by bus blew my mind. It doesn’t anymore.
I’ve spent the last four years running a humanitarian news
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