
Uvalde and the Border Security Scam
In South Texas, an international military apparatus lords over Latino residents. It took one man mere minutes to make a mockery of it.
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Michelle García is a journalist working on a book about borders to be published by Viking. She is the 2021 recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize and the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award. The Texas native is based in New York and South Texas.
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