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30 Minutes- Migrant Trail 2009 Press Conference
Migrant Trail Press Conference 2009 (26:51) 2009-05-24
30 Minutes- Migrant Trail 2009 Press Conference
The 6th Annual Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life press conference. Organizers of the 6th Annual Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life convened a press conference on May 20, 2009 in advance of the 7 day, 75 mile trek from Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico to Tucson, Arizona. The walkers want to focus attention on the thousands of migrant deaths that have occurred on the US- Mexico Border since the 1990s when border enforcement policies shifted migrant corridors to increasingly remote locations.

Speakers include Jodi Read, Lil Mattingly, Father Bob Carney, Brother David Buer, Jim and Maureen Marks, Sebastian Quinac, Isabel Garcia and Kat Rodriguez.

Sponsors of the walk included the Migrant Trail Walk Committee, Coalicion de Derechos Humanos, BorderLinks, Mennonite Central Committee US, Catholic Relief Services- Mexico Program, No More Deaths - Phoenix and Tucson, 8th Day Center for Justice, Coloradans for Immigrant Rights, Frontera de Cristo, Humane Borders, American Friends Service Committee, Samaritans, JPIC Office of the St. Barbara Province Franciscans, Shalom Mennonite Fellowship, Casa Maria, and Church of the Good Shepherd.