The young Salvadoran woman was robbed and forced to dodge kidnappers working for a drug cartel during her four-month odyssey to Reynosa, Mexico, a border city of belching factories and swirling dust across the Rio Grande from Texas.
She hoped to be on the other side long before Pope Francis visits the region next month and delivers what promises to be a highly symbolic homily addressing immigration. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims will flock to the border to hear him speak, and America’s political class will likely be listening as well. Francis’ Feb. 17 Mass in Ciudad Juarez comes just eight days after the New Hampshire primaries, and three before contests in South Carolina and Nevada.
