BU students experience migration crisis first hand at Texas-Mexico border
A group of Boston University students wanted to tackle issues head on and traveled down to the Texas-Mexico border to witness the immigration crisis themselves as part of the Center on Forced Displacement’s Border Studies Program. Throughout the weeklong trip, held during spring break, students traveled to a variety of locations along the Lower Rio Grande Valley including Brownsville and McAllen in Texas, and Matamoros and Reynosa in Mexico. This article reports on their experience.