Some of us woke up early and did a little hike with Andy around the campsite. It turned out really nice and worth the effort of losing sleep time. Then we all had breakfast and packed the vans to go to Tucson, to the place we camped the first days.
When we got there it was weird. It felt weird to see the place where we camped at the beginning after all those days of work and learning. It felt different. We were looking at it differently. After taking showers and setting up the tents we left for downtown Tucson to meet with Isabel Garcia, we had an appointment at 3:00 pm
She got there at 3:50 pm; we were kind of annoyed and I felt like I would sleep during her presentation. But from the moment she started talking until the moment we left I couldn’t stop paying attention. The energy in her voice and the emotion with which she felt the issue blew my sleepiness away and made me listen intently. She talked about Project Streamline, which makes crossing the border illegally a felony and randomly chooses people to prosecute. Those people face 2-20 years in jail in the US. She also talked about how the people get targeted and the racial profiling is rising in Arizona. She inspired us to think: “We have to do something. We’ve got to.” Isabel Garcia is the most convincing person I’ve ever met.
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