Editor's note: This article is part of a developing story. See previous coverage on March 5 and March 20. An El Paso, Texas, district court
I did not want to leave my home. I did not want to leave Mexico. But today I embrace where I am in Kansas and thank God that I met amazing people here.
Stefany Cortes, a senior at Freeman Academy in South Dakota, won the top prize for her essay on immigration in the annual Mennonite Central Committee U.S. National Peace & Justice Ministries public policy essay contest.
