NPR: Borderland Interactive Timeline

NPR: Borderland Interactive Timeline

NPR-BorderlandYou have no idea what people will do to reach the United States — until you hear their stories.

I heard some at La Posada Providencia shelter. You could live in San Benito, Texas, a long time and never notice it was there.

This Catholic shelter welcomes some of the most recent arrivals to the United States from Mexico.

But the women I met there are not Mexican. They’re not even from Latin America. They are asylum seekers from Ethiopia… (Click here to see the story on NPR’s website)