last updated 15 Oct 2025

The Davis Community Church visits the Arizona border between sister cities Douglas, AZ and Agua Puerta, Sonora, Mexico every few years to visit Frontera de Cristo, a Presbyterian border ministry, which they support.
These are some notes from the 2025 visit.

The border wall looking East from Douglas
The older section is 18-20 feet high. Newer sections are 30 feet high.
It's made of Steel bollards 6-inches wide 4 inches apart.
It is set back about 3 feet from the actual border.

Tree of Life
A walnut tree 13 miles West of Agua Prieta, 3 miles north of highway 2 and about a mile south of the border near Agua Puerta, Sonora, Mexico where a Presbyterian church group set up a water drum and brought food to camped immigrants.
Immigration had dropped off while we were there,


Wall view from the Living Tree
The mile to the the border was covered with scratchy mesquite Shrubs, few trees and home to coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats and rattlesnakes.
However it is nothing compared to the Darién Gap, a remote, roadless, and dangerous region of tropical rainforest along the border of Panama and Colombia, which South American immigrants must cross.

Wall 13 Miles west of Agua Prieta

We participated in a "Healing Our Borders Prayer Vigil" on PanAmerican Ave., Douglas, AZ and held up crosses with the names of many of the 486 immigrants who perished from 2000 - 2025 in Cochise County in the SouthEast corner of Arizona.


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