Immigration Reality: 'I didn’t have to be afraid of the border anymore'

The story of another "illegal" immgrant, Leo Guardado, the director of social ministry at Most Holy Trinity Parish in Tucson, Arizona. Now a U.S. citizen, the 29-year-old is focused on the U.S.-Mexico border and the social justice issues surrounding immigration.

'I didn’t have to be afraid of the border anymore' | National Catholic Reporter: "What Leo Guardado most remembers about crossing the border back in 1991 was moving along in moonlit shadows, trying, as a 9-and-a-half-year-old, to stay low and to keep his own shadow from showing.

He realizes, as he talks about it, that most of his memories of that 26-day trip play out in moonlight, because it was almost always night when he and his mother, Maria, and about seven others from their small hamlet in Chalatenango, a northern province in El Salvador, moved through deserts and jungle-like terrain and crossed rivers to get to Tijuana, Mexico, and the short final scramble to San Diego."