Immigrants face hurricane dilemma - (more on the Border Patrol and hurricane evacuation)

Jose Pacheco feels he may face a tough choice if a hurricane heads toward this community in southeast Texas: stay and face the storm’s fury or evacuate and risk losing his wife.

The possibility that U.S. Border Patrol agents may check the immigration status of hurricane evacuees recently sent shockwaves through this colonia, or unincorporated neighborhood, outside Brownsville, Texas, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico.

Residents here and along the Texas coast have become accustomed to hurricane evacuations. As more places increase enforcement of immigration laws, residents such as Pacheco say they would rather risk harm from a storm, than risk deportation from the USA.”*

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