Migrant Diary: Her Own Southern Border

December 27, 2007

Tiffany Owen grew up near Toronto in Canada. She crossed into America when she was a young girl and hopes to become an American citizen one day. As a stage manager, she looks for jobs in theatres across the U.S. like the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis. She dreams of returning home to Canada one day to work at the famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival. (Photo Credit: Marcos Najera)

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( Phoenix, AZ ) With the new employer sanctions law going into effect in a few days, the debate over immigrants taking American jobs continues here in Arizona. While many people focus on migrants who cross the U.S./Mexico border, KJZZ's Marcos Najera found a young woman who mader her way over the Canadian border to find work. This is the third in an occasional series of first person stories called 'The Migrant Diaries.'