It was a slow day at the border wall last week for the Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans, but the group doesn’t see lulls in border crossers as a sign to slow down their work.
Paul Nixon and Laurel Grindy of Green Valley set out from Continental Shopping Plaza making a patrol route along the border wall and stopping at a respite campsite south of Arivaca. The husband and wife started volunteering with the GV-Sahuarita Samaritans in 2018, two years after moving to Green Valley.
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