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Frontera

A group of Ajo Samaritans and volunteers pause for a moment before returning to Ajo town after spending half a day dropping off water and food for migrants in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.

Frontera: Arizona Samaritans soothe dire need on migrant desert trails

A photographer and a writer join the Ajo and Tucson Samaritans to highlight the harshness of the experience of migrants who cross the U.S. border into the sprawling Sonoran Desert — where it's mostly about the water.

  • Lisa Elmaleh
  • Peter Tran
Felician Sr. Maria Louise Edwards volunteers in the water drop-off ministry in the Sonoran Desert near Ajo, Arizona. (Peter Tran)

Q & A with Sr. Maria Louise Edwards, rescuing migrants lost at US-Mexico border

By Peter Tran
Sr. Judy Bourg (in green coat), a School Sister of Notre Dame, speaks with volunteers and returned migrants on an early morning in October 2021 at the migrant resource center in Agua Prieta, Mexico. (Peter Tran)

Q & A with Sr. Judy Bourg, helping migrants 'returned' at the US-Mexico border

By Peter Tran
From left, Brian, Alejandro, and Humberto were among the men expelled in the middle of the night in late October at the U.S.-Douglas, Texas, border crossing. (Lisa Elmaleh)

Frontera: Compassion has no boundaries at the US-Mexico border

By Lisa Elmaleh, Peter Tran

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Frontera: Where the limits of a wall and the promise of the unknown intersect

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