DIVIDED FAMILIES: AN IN-DEPTH REPORTING PROJECT

In our ongoing quest to address some of the major issues surrounding cross-border immigration and the needs of millions of families, AmigoLatino had the opportunity to collaborate with the students of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and the “Divided Families” project.

DIVIDED FAMILIES: AN IN-DEPTH REPORTING PROJECT

A young mother whose son is already beginning to forget his father. U.S. children abandoned in a Mexican orphanage. Two men who have searched for their missing brother for years. Border patrol agents who toil miles from their families.
These are the some of the people whose lives and whose families are divided by the U.S.-Mexico border.
The line drawn between Mexico and the United States has always meant divisions that go far beyond geography or nationality. For many years, families have lost loved ones to distance and the desert, to the pull of new lives and the rejection of old ones.

This is more true now than ever. As it has become more difficult to cross the border _ legally or illegally _ it has become increasingly difficult for families to stay together.

It was with this in mind that that a group of advanced students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University set out to do a semester-long reporting project in fall 2007. Seventeen students _ reporters, videographers and photographers _ made more than 30 trips to the border, deep into Mexico and to various parts of Arizona to find and tell the stories of divided families. To read more click here: