Feb 11, 2012

Border Reality: Minnesota young man uses EMT training to aid immigrants along U.S./Mexico border

Here is one of those local news acccounts that takes you to the personal level of an issue: this one is the border and migration through the desert. 

Daily Globe | Worthington, Minnesota: " Growing up in Worthington, Dan Wilson was acquainted with the controversial issues surrounding immigration. “... I knew people made a lot of sacrifices to do it, and I had also seen some of the reasons for the immigration. I was feeling connected to that last step of immigration, and it was intriguing to me.”

So Wilson spent last summer working in the Sonora Desert along the U.S./Mexico border, using his skills as a trained emergency medical technician and witnessing firsthand another aspect of the immigration story." read more

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