The San Juan Hotel Battle: A Crossroads for Mexican American Civil Rights in the Rio Grande Valley
There is a reckoning with history happening at an old hotel with a horrific past and the RGV's first and only civil rights museum.
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Reporter's Notebook: This Year's Border Security Expo in San Antonio Was the Biggest Ever: “Why Would You Even Want a Solution?”
Robo-dogs, ghost drones, Palmer Luckey, and protestors outside, plus other observations from my week at the Border Security Expo in Texas
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