The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

by Francisco Cantú

The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (https://firrp.org) works to provide free legal and social services to detained immigrant men, women, and unaccompanied minors under threat of deportation in Arizona. The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (https://www.raicestexas.org) the largest immigration legal services provider in Texas, offering free and low-cost legal services to families, refugees, and immigrant children in Central and South Texas. The Cristo Rey Border Immersion Program (http://iglesiacristorey.wixsite.com/borderimmersion) invites participants to learn more about issues that affect those living in the borderlands. This program allows participants to participate in fellowship at the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez fence, tour rural settlements in El Paso, assist with after school programs, and more. BorderLinks (https://www.borderlinks.org/) facilitates educational cross-border immersion trips to the Arizona-Sonora border region to raise awareness about the impact of border and immigration policies through field-based experiential learning that emphasizes migrant voices and social change.