Mother's Day at the Border

Mon12May2008

Mother's Day at the Border

09:57 H | Topics: Children - Honduras - Immigration - Mexico - Women

Flowers, chocolates, cards, perfume. These are the most common mother's day gifts. Along the U.S. Mexico border, all some mothers and daughters wanted was to hug each other.

You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca's immigration lawyer advised her, but don't put your fingers through its fence. It may hinder her immigration paperwork, the lawyer said.....

The Menchacas, who drove from Phoenix, are among those who gather here annually on Mexico's Mother's Day along the kinder portion of an otherwise unforgiving border that separates the United States and Mexico....

"We're hoping that by next year, they have their immigration papers," she said, clutching a family photo album, as her grandchildren gathered daisies for her and pushed them through the fence.

This is the human aspect of the boder debate that the pundits want to gloss over. Too many want people to look at this as strictly an issue of laws and numbers, not people, faces, women, children, and their families and how they are separated by borders and laws.