US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 week agoWhy Latinos Join ICE
Latinos have become a significant part of the Border Patrol, challenging assumptions about their motivations and community ties.
It makes me feel proud, simply because of the specific time we're in right now. It definitely takes a lot of courage for kids my age to represent their culture. Anthony Benitez, an 18-year-old violin student born in the United States to Mexican immigrants, expressed how the academy provides a meaningful outlet for cultural expression amid punitive immigration enforcement affecting Latino and immigrant families across the country.
Corpus Christi hasn't changed much since Selena Quintanilla sang Como la Flor at rodeos and fairs in South Texas. The Gulf wind still carries the scent of gasoline and cotton, and her smile remains unchanged on the statue on the waterfront, as if tragedy hadn't touched her. Now, three decades after her murder at the age of 23, a new documentary reopens the Quintanilla family archives.