{"id":306704,"date":"2018-12-17T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/u-s-mexico-border-welcoming-migrants-and-giving-hope\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:38:44","slug":"u-s-mexico-border-welcoming-migrants-and-giving-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/u-s-mexico-border-welcoming-migrants-and-giving-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Mexico border: Welcoming migrants and giving hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Despite the media spotlights turning on and off on the drama that continues at the border between Mexico and the U.S., there are many people and organizations, including Focolare, who have not abandoned the migrants there.<\/em>  In past weeks, news and images of thousands of people marching from Honduras toward the U.S. border have gone around the world. \u201cIn this region, the phenomenon of migrants is really common,\u201d explains Sandra Garcia-Farias Herrera of the Focolare community in Northwest Mexico. \u201cMexicali and Tijuana are border cities, having grown because of the high number of people who have arrived here dreaming to enter the United States. Yet what we\u2019ve witnessed in the past month is unprecedented. \u201cThe people themselves cannot understand how the phenomenon has reached these proportions, or what would have pushed so many families to leave everything behind, even during rough weather, and get on the road. \u201cHere is where the road ends, and it seems that their dreams shatter. Streets and public places have become camps. There is a lot of confusion, and we\u2019ve witnessed violence, the closure of border crossings into the U.S., the installation of razor wire along the wall, and a huge deployment of police forces protecting the borders, with helicopters and armed vehicles never seen before. It feels like war is about to break out.  \u201cThe lack of information as to what pushed these people to move, as well as news from mainstream and social media, has caused the residents of Mexico to have mixed feelings, from hostility, resentment, to even episodes of xenophobia.\u201d While some young people from Focolare are trying to find a way to enter into the migrant camps \u2013 for many the final destination of their Mexican journey \u2013 others have reached out to migrants in the street, trying to understand what motivates them, and especially their needs.  One family drove two women with small children as far as Tijuana, so they could avoid the extremely arduous route. Others who work at an education center suggested students change their cultural attitudes to show migrants solidarity and the sense of fraternity that every person deserves. \u201cThe priority now is to oppose the rampant confusion and the intolerant acts that come from it, even among young people. We need to spread a culture of welcoming.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Chiara Favotti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the media spotlights turning on and off on the drama that continues at the border between Mexico and the U.S., there are many people and organizations, including Focolare, who have not abandoned the migrants there.<br \/>\nIn past weeks, news and images of thousands of people marching from Honduras toward the U.S. border have gone around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}