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Just looking at this picture, I am thirsty and hot. I can’t believe these walkers, coyotes and border patrol agents roam this land.
Walkers, patrol agents, birds, snakes, spiders. I have sympathy for you all.
The descriptions of the heat and thirst in The Devil’s Highway were so tangible to me
Great visual!
This is the fourth and final piece in a ThinkProgress series chronicling the struggles of immigrant life in Southern California along the U.S.-Mexico border. You can find our other pieces here, here…
The Day of the Dead in November, they do this to represent all the women, men and children that lost their lives trying to cross the border.
This is so sad
Wow!
Extremely touching!!!
“This was not accidental. This was intentional,” said Rita Vargas Torregrosa, the Mexican consul in the border town of Calexico. “Things are very irregular in this case.”
“Mexican immigrants paid nearly $600 million in federal taxes and sales taxes in 2002…Mexican immigrants use about $250 million in social services such as Medicaid and food stamps…Another $31 million in uncompensated health care….”“ That leaves a profit of $319 million.”
“When the hell was it going to cool off?” (Urrea 137)
“It’s just a few more miles,” Mendez told them, but they already understood that he was wrong” (Urrea 137).
I can only imagine the fear that all the men must have felt at this point. It does make me ask why did they continue to follow him from the first moment they knew he was lost, this would have been the moment I would have re-evaluated the situation and found my own way–without continuing to go left. Their fate is now pretty well sealed.
I agree that it must have been vary scary, feeling death upon you like that. They probably felt damned either way and maybe there was some consequence for not following the coyotes.
I am sure at some point in the journey they felt like the air itself was on fire.
I bet this was awful for them!
I liked this picture because it is about the battle for the border.
I think this is what the group would have looked like in The Devil’s Highway.
Great visual!
I found a picture of the border wall , but it wouldn’t let me download it. On the wall it says, “Tambien de este lado hay suenos.” Also on this side are dreams. It made me emotional reading it, because this country is founded on dreams. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Facts about Brownsville TX
~As of the census of 2010, there were 175,023 people, 49,871 households, and 41,047 families residing in the city.
~The racial makeup of the city was:
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) - 91.28%
Not Hispanic or Latino - 8.72%
~The median income for a household in the city was $24,468, and the median income for a family was $26,186. Males had a median income of $21,739 versus $17,116 for females.
~An important pillar of the economy is the Port of Brownsville. The port, located 2 miles (3.2 km) from the city, provides an important link between the road networks of nearby Mexico, and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway of Texas.
~The city currently has 58 public schools and 5 libraries.
~Brownsville has three international bridges
~During mid to late February, Charro Days takes place in Brownsville. The holiday is a two-nation fiesta celebrating the friendship between Brownsville and its sister city and border town, Matamoros.
all facts copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville,_Texas
Interesting facts!!
I just can’t say enough about “Brownsville.” I loved all the stories, even the ones that were bizarre because it felt like he captured much of the characteristics of border cities. It is one thing to live in the interior of the U.S., but we are fortunate to live near the border and understand the contributions that our Mexican and Mexican/American families have on the life styles we have become accustomed to enjoying. Living most of my life in New Mexico, I have always taken for granted the wonderful diversity that we have been blessed with. I watched a PBS news program this morning and was so surprised when they talked about the way to really fix the border problem because I have been saying it for a long time now. Instead of spending billions of dollars trying to do what has never worked, spend it on improving our backyard–help our neighbor–invest in the Mexican people in Mexico and literally eat the fruit of that new policy/economic shift! Love our neighbor–where does this fit into things and I am not religious–I am spiritual and believe only in unconditional love and equality for all.
Brownsville looks so much like El Paso - I love border cities!
Amazing, to see the similarities with both 😊
Awesome visual!
Oscar Césares.
"Oscar Casares is a Texas-born writer who earned wide acclaim with his first collection of short stories, Brownsville, which was published in 2003. He is currently…
An interview with the author of Brownsville: Stories. Enjoy!
Good interview! I enjoyed learning of his family history and how they came to the U.S. Casares is a 5th generation citizen of the U.S.
oh man I just shared the same one. Whoops. It is a good interview
Great interview!!!
I wondered where Brownsville was located and surprised me of the location. I thought it was located in the middle of nowhere Texas.
Charro Days fiesta, watching the children’s parade, Brownsville, Texas, 1942
