TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) – The Migrant Trail completed their 75-mile walk Sunday morning that they began last week to raise awareness of the migrant deaths in the U.S. – Mexico borderlands.
The migrant trial walk has taken place for over two decades now. This year, over 40 people, young and old made the week-long journey from Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico to Tucson, Arizona. They walk to honor the thousands of migrants that have died or gone missing, trying to make the very same trek.
“They died because there wasn’t a safe place for them to enter, and our policies pushed them to their deaths,” said Jamie Wilson, organizing member with Migrant Trail…