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Article: Pressing for justice along the border; Borderlinks activists work with the poor at U.S.-Mexico line.
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- March 4, 1994
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Borderlinks activists work with the poor at U.S.-Mexico line
TUCSON, Ariz. - Rick Ufford-Chase used to have to beg church activists to visit the U.S.-Mexico border.
The church delegations were more likely to be attracted to the higher-profile issues farther south in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Although those countries continue to draw the concern and resources of religious human rights groups, some of the focus has changed to the border as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement debate and the new questions raised about border issues by the recent widely felt uprising in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas.
"Just ...