Joseph and Mary searched despondent North Star-driven evenings, seeking refuge, safety, and comfort. Mary still with child, the couple was turned away eight nights before they, and the unborn savior, were able to rest on presepios (a bed of straw) in a barn in the town of Bethlehem. Their journey and routine dismissal is relived by migrant families, who gather on the Mexico-side of the border -to celebrate the annual bi-national posada, or La Posada Sin Fronteras (Lodging without Borders) - where participants ask to take refuge in the United States, but are refused.
Guatemalan singer-actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez, known professionally as Oscar Isaac, has earned a Golden Globe nod for his portrayal of the title character in the Coen Brother newcomer, "Inside Llewyn Davis."
