The Boston Globe: An Education on the Border
Read about how a group of CM students traveled to the US-Mexico border to immerse themselves into the lives of those seeking asylum in The Boston Globe.
This piece originally appeared in The Boston Globe on November 20, 2019.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Missionaries of Jesus Convent sits a mile away from Matamoros, Mexico. A 15-minute car ride takes you to one of three bridges spanning the Rio Grande, a blue line on a map that separates hundreds of migrants in tent cities from asylum in the United States.
Inside the convent, I sat with two students from Catholic Memorial, an all-boys Catholic school in West Roxbury. Students and faculty leaders from fellow Edmund Rice Christian Brother schools Bishop Hendricken in Rhode Island, Brother Rice High School in Michigan, and Iona Prep in New York joined us, too.
Inside the convent, I sat with two students from Catholic Memorial, an all-boys Catholic school in West Roxbury. Students and faculty leaders from fellow Edmund Rice Christian Brother schools Bishop Hendricken in Rhode Island, Brother Rice High School in Michigan, and Iona Prep in New York joined us, too.
Hours had passed since we landed in Brownsville for our service-immersion trip to the US-Mexico border.
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