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The Borderland immersion trip is a trip in which Dominican students travel from

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San Diego to Chicano Park,

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and then we physically cross the border walking to arrive to Tijuana.

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Once we get to Tijuana, we help build houses for the community,

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for families essentially who don't have a home or want to expand their home

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because they're no longer comfortable in the space that they're in.

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I've never picked up a shovel in my life until right now.

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And to see the gratitude from these families,

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like they're so grateful and you can tell because they're giving us a plate of

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food and they're offering us their stories.

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And it's just beautiful to be able to exchange that.

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To be able to exchange a couple hours of labor and be able to get stories

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and memories and gratitude back.

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The Borderlands trip helped me understand the complexity of the immigration

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process and the trials and the tribulations that immigrants have to go through,

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um, just to get a better life for themselves or for their families.

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So I feel like that's gonna help me understand in the future,

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if I'm doing counseling or social work,

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to be able to see and talk to people who have gone through it and have

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compassion and understanding for how difficult their,

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their lives have been.

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I would just say it's a great experience because like myself, I think a lot of, uh,

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Americans are naive to the situation and may not know anything about it.

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Just being able to see it,

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experience it and learning from it has definitely been the right spot.

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Both my parents cross to this country to try and give us a better future

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essentially,

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and to see that people are still trying to do it even though it's gotten more

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difficult, it's incredible that they still have that sense of hope.

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Thank you to Dominican University that came and helped build their house.

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They help us, uh, become more faster. People like us,

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we need that, that big help.