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I always felt that pictures were very powerful...
UMass Boston student Renata Teodoro, right, and her mother, Gorete Borges Teodoro, who was deported in 2007, met at a U.S.-Mexico border fence. (Courtesy Samantha Sais, via The New York Times)
By SACHA PFEIFFER and LYNN JOLICOEUR
BOSTON It was a reunion between mother and daughter from opposite sides of a massive steel fence at the United States-Mexico border.
The moment was meant to draw attention to immigration reform, and a photo of that emotional moment, captured by The New York Times, has gone viral.
The younger woman in it is Renata Teodoro, who lives in Boston and is a student at UMass Boston. She spoke with WBUR’s All Things Considered host Sacha Pfeiffer Thursday while waiting to catch a flight home from the airport in Albuquerque, N.M.
http://www.wbur.org/2013/06/13/border-reunion-teodoro
The emotion is great. The sadness of their separation is heart wrenching.
