“To appease people in middle America, they are going to kill our communities along the border,” said Pat Ahumada, the mayor of Brownsville. “The rest of America has no idea how we live our lives here. We are linked by the Rio Grande, not divided by it. Our history, our families, our neighbors are tied together on both sides of that river.”

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