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Only have a minute? Listen instead By Linda Corchado and Bob Sanborn The data are clear: A third of Texas’ nearly 8 million children are immigrants or the children of immigrants. In our cities, like Houston, the number is about half of our children. If children are our future, then our path forward as a state involves immigrants. Yet a majority of Texas still seems to regard immigration as our No. 1 problem. The numbers and history tell a very different story.
By Linda Corchado Earlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Alex Mayorkas asked for a private meeting with myself and my client, a mother who was separated from her daughter in 2017 here in El Paso. It took four years to reunite them. Also joining us was Jessica, who first met my client’s daughter at her local church a few weeks after she had been separated from her mother, when she was just 12 years old.
By Linda Corchado I knew a different border as a child growing up in El Paso in the 1990s. A drive across the Bridge of the Americas to visit my doctor was as fluid as driving over the Manhattan bridge to reach downtown Brooklyn. I never needed a passport to cross back into the U.S. from Juarez to establish my citizenship to Customs and Border Protection agents. It should be no surprise that this was also a time when our own deference to international human rights was robust.
By Grace Meng and Linda Corchado Marisa fled El Salvador in February after sustaining years of violent gender-based abuse and repeated failed attempts to seek protection by the police. Battling symptoms of post-traumatic stress, she made her way to the U.S.-Mexico border and was locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso. Nearly two months later, Marisa, whose real name is withheld to protect her privacy, began to feel sick.
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