On Their Own: Border Humanitarians Respond to a Crisis Created by Governments
“I kept thinking, Who is going to come step up to the plate and help us here?" says Dora Rodriguez, co-founder of a migrant resource center in Sásabe, Sonora.
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In September 2020, Tucson-based humanitarians Dora Rodriguez and Gail Kocourek were delivering 700 meals a week to stranded migrants and asylum seekers in the small Mexican border town of Sásabe, Sonora.
Three years lat…
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