September 04, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 124) • Page Image 14
…Wednesday,September 4, 2019 // The Statement 7B E very year in early August, our mother would haul my siblings and me into our car in the stifling heat. The four of us would wait for hours in long lines at the international bridge, waiting to cross the border from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua into El Paso. We lived on the Mexican side of our sprawling binational metropolitan area and crossed often for groceries and shopping, so this wa...…