Ihope my fellow community members remember the nuances of each story when listening to narratives about migrants and the border. Guest columnist

Allie Oberhelman, a junior at Northwestern College in Iowa studying political science and Spanish, recently traveled to El Paso and Juárez with the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy group.

As I arrived home from my trip to El Paso, Texas, and the U.S.-Mexico border, a relative said to me: “I am so glad you made it back, I was worried you were going to be kidnapped over there.” That well-meaning remark reminded me that the El Paso I visited and the El Paso my friends and family see in the news are two different places.

Traveling to El Paso and its Mexican sister city of Juárez, just across the border, I saw the true nature of these borde

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