WOAI, TX
The second-floor dorms are sparse but clean, full of bunk beds with sheets but no blankets, and the added amenity of a cracked mirror in the women's room.
From the windows, one can see the green banks of the Rio Grande, the brown ribbon of river, and a line of train cars on the American side of the border in Laredo.
"So close, but yet so far," said Jose Antonio Moran, one of the volunteers at the Migrants House, one of several way-stations along the Mexico border that offers a bed, food, medical care and even clothing to immigrants waiting to cross, usually illegally, into the United States.
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