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Bracing For Survival

Walking with immigrants at the border specifically between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, more Mexicans are constantly in quest for jobs and other possibilities at hand. It’s the reality that has been going on while the government tries its best to help them; however, limited resources seem to be the problem with hardly enough industries that would employ them. Known as Casa del Migrante for men and families that provides services to these people each day there’s always a new registration mostly men who’re in search of an answer jobs – the immediate reason for their coming. Their struggles to make ends meet their sorrow to experience grief their defeat to return home with nothingness and their faith being questioned ‘where is God’s grace?’ It’s like a bowl of queries and dissatisfactions with all those problems and struggles; life has become hard for them to handle especially with tragedy or ailment in the family. Boldly complex and intertwined with faith life at the major crossroads aligned with sufferings; a compelling chunk of what it means to survive in this world where the forces of good and evil unfold.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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