Brownsville Herald Border Series

We copy these links from Roberto Calderon’s email list. The Border Fence Series by The Brownsville Herald (2006):

Day 1: May 28

“Good fences, great walls: Proposed border fence dividing neighbors, nation”, BY SARA INÉS CALDERÓN, The Brownsville Herald

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — By day, Adriana Guzman cleans houses — two every day of the week, as she’s done for nine years since she came here without papers to find work.

“‘More fencing, more agents’: San Diego congressman leads charge for U.S. border fence,” BY SARA INÉS CALDERÓN, The Brownsville Herald

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — It all started with old steel landing mats.

Day 2: May 31

“Illegal immigration flooding river’s bank: Natural division creates debate about cultural divides,” BY SARA INÉS CALDERÓN, The Brownsville Herald.

Twisting and winding its way, snakelike across South Texas the Rio Grande has come to symbolize the border between the United States and Mexico: the divisions between two countries, cultures and is for some the demarcation between different worlds.

“Professor: Los Dos Laredos began as one city: Cities share more than just Rio Grande,” BY SARA INÉS CALDERÓN
The Brownsville Herald.

LAREDO — Underwear, empty water bottles, T-shirts, deflated inner tubes and other refuse that line the banks of the Rio Grande here are solid evidence of illegal immigration, said supervisory Border Patrol agent Roberto García.

“Economic Barrier?: Business, academic leaders say there are things worse than a ‘wall ‘,” BY CHRIS MAHON, The Brownsville Herald.

Proponents and detractors of a government plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border have lined up on either side of the proverbial, and literal, fence.

Day 3: June 2

“A line in the sand: Border fence critics say expansion would lengthen a deadly divide from the California desert to the Gulf of Mexico,” BY SARA INÉS CALDERÓN, The Brownsville Herald.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — It was an invasion by most accounts. Immigrants were flooding in from Mexico daily with no end in sight: The country was being taken over.

“Experts worry what wall may do to wildlife habitat
: Brownsville’s eco-tourism may be impacted, as well,” BY SARA INÉS CALDERÓN, The Brownsville Herald.

No one has really thought of the birds.