For two first-generation students, reporting from the border brought a mixed bag of emotions.
“It was hard being at the border, not only because we were touched by these migrants desperate for a better life on our side of the wall, but because we kept seeing our parents, even though the details of their stories and how they got here were different,” said Aylin Alvarez-Santiago, whose parents came through the Arizona border from a small town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Jennifer Sanchez, whose family is from Guayaquil, Ecuador, said she had to walk away from an interview at one point because she was overwhelmed with emotion. “I couldn’t hold in my feelings the whole time,” she said.
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