Walking To America
 
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:41:38 -0500 (CDT)


http://blogs.reuters.com/category/from-reuterscom/walking-to-america/

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Follow Reuters journalists as they set across the United States border on
foot, following the principal route taken by illegal immigrants.
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July 27th, 2007, filed by Robin Emmott

It is one of the truly emblematic journeys of our times, although it never
makes it into the travel pages of any newspaper: the million or more
people who make the trip each year are poor Latin Americans, trekking
north from Mexico, albeit illegally, in search of a better life in the
United States.

The trail begins in cities, towns and villages throughout the region where
many residents get by on a few dollars a day, and winds its way north to
staging areas just short of the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) U.S. border.

Join U.S. immigration correspondent Tim Gaynor, U.S-Mexico border
correspondent Robin Emmott and photographer Tomas Bravo as they follow in
their footsteps, crashing in flop-house hotels and heading on out across
the Sonora Desert on foot.

Their journey starts in Altar, the dusty and chaotic clearing house in
Mexicos northern Sonora state, through which tens of thousands of
migrants pass each month en route for the porous U.S. border, many with
little more than a day sack full of tortillas and a gallon jug of water.