Between Hope and Fear: Photos from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: When you think of the word “migration,” what feelings rise to the surface? Compassion? Fear? Hope? Controversy? Opportunity? For six days in October 2018, Laura Pauls-Thomas, a MCC East Coast staff member, and 11 participants travelled to Douglas, Arizona (U.S.) and Agua Prieta, Sonora (Mexico) with MCC and its partner organization Frontera de Cristo (“Border of Christ”). They came to listen, learn and understand the complex reality of life in the borderlands. From sharing dinner and conversation with Mexican and Central American migrants in Agua Prieta, to having lunch with a border patrol officer at a café in Douglas, the experience elicited many conflicting emotions – love and sadness, joy and frustration, hope and fear.