Grim Scene on U.S.-Mexican Border

Mexican migrants fleeing economic hardship risk their lives every day to cross the harsh Sonoran Desert into the United States, where they hope to find jobs and prosperity. But unlike the ancient Jews who wandered in the Sinai Desert for 40 years after fleeing Egypt, today’s Mexicans have no manna from heaven to sustain them.

That symbolism was very much in evidence this week, when national Jewish leaders for the first time joined their Christian brethren on the heavily guarded U.S.-Mexico border to condemn what they called an unjust U.S. policy that leads to suffering and even death for illegal immigrants.

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