Fri, Sep 05, 2008

Border News

About this series

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.22.2004
Border reporter Michael Marizco, 32, spent three months investigating the business of smuggling children into the United States.
Noé and Moises Lopez are two of those children, who each day enter sophisticated, sometimes dangerous smuggling networks that reunite children with parents living here illegally.
Marizco met the boys at a Nogales, Son. deported kids' shelter, then he and photojournalist Kelly Presnell traveled to North Carolina for the end of the boys' journeys.
Their story was reconstructed through observation and extensive interviews in Spanish with the boys, their family, Mexican law enforcement officials, and children and operators of the shelter.