http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4445342.stm
State-of-the-art shoes aid migrants
By Amy Isackson
The World programme, San Diego
Artist Judi Werthein has walked smack into the middle of this
controversy.
She is hoping to leave her footprint with a special "crossing trainer"
she has designed to help illegal immigrants negotiate the sometimes
deadly terrain they encounter when crossing the border from Mexico to
the US.
Migrants waiting for dark to hop the border fence from Tijuana into
San Diego start calling out their shoe sizes when they see the boxes
in Werthein's arms.
People start emerging from their makeshift homes in rusted cars and
the cement channel that runs parallel to the border fence and drains
Tijuana's fetid run-off.
Some have been waiting for months in this no-man's land for their
chance to cross into San Diego.
"The shoe includes a compass, a flashlight because people cross at
night, and inside is included also some Tylenol painkillers because
many people get injured during crossing," Werthein says.
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