"If you and your children were starving, if you saw violence and murder every single day, and just on the horizon is a safe country where people are allowed to dream, can make a decent living, of course you would cross the border. Any mother or father in their right mind would. We need to have compassion for this."
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On why Mexicans cross the border in āThe Borders of Our Livesā (American Theatre; Feb 2018)
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