One of the most informative, interactive and beautifully written articles on immigration you’ll read this year:
They had left Exelina at 7:30 in the morning, the woman explained, and walked all day until they reached the highway north of the immigration checkpoint. They were picked up by men in trucks and driven to Houston. They arrived that Saturday around 9 p.m. ‘I am a woman in my late 50s, a grandmother,’ she told Salvador. ‘There aren’t any words to explain how difficult it was.’ But somehow everyone had made it to Houston—everyone except Exelina.