Sixteen national champion poetry slammers from the Western Hemisphere qualified to compete in the Abya Yala Copa América in Juárez this year. Their first stage was a migrant support center.
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Corrie Boudreaux
Corrie Boudreaux is an award-winning photojournalist and writer in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez region and a lecturer in the Department of Communication at UTEP. She has covered general news and features in El Paso and New Mexico and migration, culture and security in Mexico.