Journey For Justice: Dec 8th, Day 8 Tornillo

Vigil at Tornillo where the children separated from their families were held for months. Such beauty so close to such cruelty.

Plus I find wild arugula growing all along where the containment fence with the barbed wire was.

Many of the people on this present journey started their activism here several years ago when word got out that children were being seperated from their parents and families and imprisioned here. Eventually, the El Paso and near-by communities along with people on this journey and those coming from all over the country, Mexico, and even the world were successful in shutting this prison down.

Only to find out the children were being shipped to other detention centers around the country, including the largest one (I think) at Homestead Florida so off folks went to work to shut that one down.

We know of 2,300 children dying in border patrol custody from 2004 until 2014 - that's children who were counted.

But tonite we are celebrating the absence of huge tents, barbed-wire and tall fences as we feel the presence of children kicking soccer balls over their confinment walls and their ghosts calling Mama and military personnel telling us they are not allowed to talk with us and we better not talk with them.