Anita Snow

Anita Snow

Anita Snow has been a Latin America correspondent and covered national issues from the Southwest for the Associated Press. As a freelance writer, she now focuses on the border and immigration from Tucson, Arizona.

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A participant in a symbolic Via Crucis held Saturday in Nogales, Mexico, to honor migrants uses a smartphone (at bottom) to take a picture of the group that includes a man holding a wooden cross next to the border wall with Arizona. The orange sign reads,"We are the body of Christ." (Anita Snow)

The Way of the Cross moves along the US-Mexico border: A photo essay

About 80 people, from both sides of the border, showed up April 5 for the Via Crucis procession that flowed through the city street running parallel to the border wall in Nogales, Mexico — all to pay tribute to migrants.

Sophomore Victoria Mendoza-Cardena, 16, from Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, California, serves a Central American mother and her two young daughters breakfast on Feb. 19, 2025, at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Mexico. (Anita Snow)

With US immigration policies in flux, volunteers remain steady at Kino Border Initiative

Through all the changes since President Trump took office, volunteers at Kino Border Initiative south of the Arizona-Mexico border have continued to show up for migrants at the nonprofit's dining room and shelter.