DEL RIO, Texas — I’ve been to Texas many times. Those Lone Star trips were confined to the habitat of American salesman. Cookie cutter hotels, training rooms, frigidly chilled convention centers, and that blast of Texas heat whenever you venture outside. A recent trip changed all that. I traveled from San Antonio through Uvalde to … Read more
EAGLE PASS, Texas — As more than a dozen Republican governors gathered Sunday on the Texas border, Kyle Willis was across the river in Mexico considering his next move to enter the U.S. The 23-year-old Jamaican, who said he left his country after facing attacks and discrimination due to his sexuality, had followed the path … Read more
There are now a pair of border crises coming front and center into the race for the White House. The first is occurring hundreds of miles from either Mexico or Canada, in Washington D.C., where lawmakers recently learned their months-long efforts at reaching a compromise over new border security legislation may have been torpedoed by … Read more
Now, cuffed and shackled, Keldy was a criminal defendant, charged with a misdemeanor. She had committed two phone numbers to memory—the first for Mino in East Texas and the second for her sister Claudia, who was living in Philadelphia, an asylum seeker herself. Since Mino still had no immigration papers, Claudia would have to sponsor … Read more
