Today our first full day - allowed us to witness the path of the migrant. We finally met Peter live in living color and shared a van trip to a border town of Sasabe. There we crossed into the small town and took a brief walk though as we later realized most have moved away due to the isolated nature of being caught between the Drug war to the south and the ever stringent border patrol agents to the north. We then proceeded to lunch at Buenos Aires Refuge, a national park where the ranger spoke to us regarding the ecological issues of migration. The highlight of the day was meeting Karl Hoffman - a retired police officer from Colorado who now lives as an photographer and filmmaker and most importantly a true humanitarian. He prides himself of straddling the middle ground and simply trying to bridge the two sides of a charged issue to bring understanding and hopefully movement on the complex migration issue. Many important and valuable questions were brought up today as a result of what we had witnessed. For most questions that will take time to sort out. When things get wild and crazy all around us what is it that we hang on to driving our humanity? How has distance affected our perspective? What are all the things the dessert has come to symbolize for us as a result of our walk?
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