The latest anti-immigrant proposal to come out of the Texas Legislature (HB 20) would deputize anyone to apprehend people crossing the Texas border into the United States. Potential targets are likely to include all people of Latino descent, including Texans.
My mother came here as an immigrant; she was a white woman from a European country and arrived through Ellis Island. I still recall her stories of the harrowing trip — the fear, the loss and heartache, the insecurity around her unknown future.
Those anxieties are only exacerbated for people fleeing to the U.S.-Mexico border these days, often on foot for thousands of miles, seeking relief from armed gangs, climate disasters, grinding poverty and, many times, all of these at once.
