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Robert Preston a.k.a.
Migrant Advocate
Nogales trip
Boarder Links Field Trip
BORDERLINKS
FIELDTRIP REPORT—Report on one or two key aspects that impressed you
most about the field trip and explain why. Must incorporate at least
two articles from the BorderLinks Reading Packet into your
discussion.
describe what you did, saw,
learned; explain what you mean to say in a way understandable to a
general audience; give examples to illustrate and support your
points. Remember focus your paper on one or two themes that most
impressed you--don't try to tell us everything.
This
full-day excursion was personalized to our course topic of
migration. The orientation in Tucson at BorderLinks and discussion
with ; interview with the US Border Patrol or Grupo Beta (Mexican
Border Patrol); visit to a migrant shelter/community center; lunch
with families in a colonia squatters’ settlement; visit to a
maquiladora; exercises such as a market basket survey comparing cost
of living on both sides of the border; discussions with migrants and
US and Mexican experts and officials about migration issues. The
opportunity for this trip undoubtedly will enable us to bring home
through an immersion experience many of the topics studied in the
course.
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