Game Changer: Sister Norma Pimentel
Our featured Game Changer for Women’s History Month is Sister Norma Pimentel, the Rio Grande Valley nun responsible for the migrant respite center in McAllen, Texas.
Our featured Game Changer for Women’s History Month is Sister Norma Pimentel, the Rio Grande Valley nun responsible for the migrant respite center in McAllen, Texas.
Melissa Guerra considers how local leaders and border experts in the Rio Grande Valley can add to the border conversation had they only been asked to contribute.
The latest in our border series focuses on Petra, the mother of two boys who fled Mexico after her home was ransacked and brother kidnapped.
The third entry in her border series on migrants, Melissa Guerra describes the daily scene and the work of the volunteers at McAllen, Texas’ Respite Center.
The second entry in her border series on migrants, Melissa Guerra tells the story of a little boy from Honduras separated from his parents in their U.S. migration.
A new viewpoint from the border, Melissa Guerra returns to her Rio Grande Valley roots and interviews migrants crossing from Mexico into Texas.
Melissa Guerra concludes her multi-part series which looks at daily life in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley on the Mexico border by attending a border wall protest.
The latest in our Border Series has writer Melissa Guerra participating in a ride along with Border Patrol along the US-Mexico border.
A visit to a respite center for legal migrants, which is run by nuns, in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexico border.
The latest in our Border Series addresses the way that border occurrences are often discussed and shared — in whispers at parties and social gatherings.
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