First Day in Tucson: A Lesson in Immigration History

Our group arrived in Tucson today--including several teachers, a physician, a physical therapist, an ethics professors, an editor, several pastors, a financial environmentalist, a director of a day worker center, a therapist, and several others--all with eyes wide open.

We settled into the Borderlinks facilities (bunk beds and tasty vegetarian food...)

And we were guided by our leader Ana Rodriguez in a discussion about the history of immigration in the US. Ana put together a detailed timeline of immigration history in the US illustrated with fabulous political cartoons from each era. 

If you'd like to review the timeline, you can find it here.  (Thanks, Ana!) We learned: America has been trying to keep out the "other" for a very long time.