The second day

The events of today were very interesting but also very surprising. Seeing the captured immigrants from just the past few days at the Border Patrol was, in a way, saddening. They were looking at us with a kind of jealously because we were free to leave. It felt a little wrong that we were looking at them through a glass window like they were zoo animals. Another thing about the Border Patrol that struck me was how the officers told us of some of the names that they refer to the immigrants as. One was "mule" because they may be carrying things over. It seems degrading to refer to them in this way. When we went to the court it shocked me how many immigrants were being prosecuted. There were 70 in a hearing that took less than an hour. I wouldn't have expected that. Going up to "A" mountain was such a good experience to be able to see everything in Tucson. I'm excited to go into the desert tomorrow.