Lessons From the Border for our Corner of the Nation
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — When I went to college we rarely discussed immigration. Border politics didn’t enter my thoughts as I headed to Big Bend National Park on a student-run rafting trip, a last escape before graduation from Texas A&M in 1978. As we crawled into sleeping bags on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, I thought the water looked low for rafting. Later that night, Spanish voices broke the silence.