Hugs Not Walls event gives families long divided by border precious minutes together
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An estimated 3,000 people gathered Saturday morning, Oct. 26, to see Borderland family members and waited their turn along a small strip of damp land just a few feet from the Rio Grande to see their kin who many hadn’t seen in years and hug them for three minutes under the watchful eye of security officials.
Many family members live just a few miles apart, but it might as well be worlds apart. In at least one case, a woman saw and hugged her father for the first time in 31 years.
A Borderzine appeal, a so long, but not a final adios as other newsroom causes beckon
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How El Paso’s Thanksgiving Day Parade comes to life
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Twenty volunteers have been working in a Central El Paso warehouse since May to get floats ready the Sun Bowl Association’s 83rd annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade is one of the organization’s premiere events to promote the Tony the Tiger Sunbowl football game Dec.
Borderzine pledge: Enhance our border reporting with a little help from our friends and NewsMatch 2019
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It’s been a challenging year for storytelling on the border. A mass shooting at a local Walmart killed 22.
