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Amelia Urry

Amelia Urry is an award-winning journalist and poet, whose work has appeared in Popular Science, Wired, Slate, and Grist.

Francisco Olachea, who's known as Pancho or Panchito in the community, uses an old ambulance as his mobile health-care station, transporting medical supplies to refugee shelters where families are waiting with their asylum numbers.
Social Justice

'Come and See Me—My Grave Is Open': Finding Life After Deportation in Nogales, Sonora

Panchito Olachea crossed the border into the U.S. at 16, and was deported at 48. He's now building a community of deportees who, like him, won't try to cross back.

By Amelia Urry