Collateral Damage: Risks grow for those whose lives straddle border

This well-written article tells the story of some of the sutdents, U.S. citizens, who were killed last week in Ciudad Juarez. These lives were once normal trans-border lives - lives that moved easily between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. To continue those lives now requires a decision to either give up their wholeness or risk death.

Risks grow for those whose lives straddle border - The Associated Press: : "Eder Diaz and Manuel Acosta were Americans whose lives straddled the border, business students attending classes at the University of Texas at El Paso but living in Ciudad Juarez amid family and friends.
They had been on their campus, a peaceful enclave of grassy plazas flanked by breathtaking desert mountains, just hours before they were gunned down last week in Juarez, their car riddled with bullets as they headed home.
Commuting from Mexico to the United States was as natural to them as taking the Holland Tunnel from New Jersey into New York. It's a life many border residents continue to embrace even as the death toll from the drug war in Mexico rises." Nov. 10, 2010