A Quote by Laura Mullen
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.
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I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.
Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.
I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.
[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
We’re on the moon,” Sadie murmured. “El Paso, Texas,” Bast corrected.
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and I would go to school in Texas. I lived on the border, so I was very fortunate to grow up between two worlds and both cultures and both languages and traditions.
In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.
The border is safe; it's secure. El Paso is the safest city in America. Let's own that. Let's be proud of that. And then, I think, good policy can follow from that, better outcomes included.
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