Immigration advocates holding a rally in California to protest Trump’s plans to conduct mass deportation of immigrants without legal status. — ©2025 The New York Times Company
FOR the last quarter of a century, Maria’s version of the American dream has been confined to a small corner of South Texas, tucked between the border with Mexico and a fortified Border Patrol checkpoint 124km north.
Maria, who crossed illegally from Mexico in 1998 and is the mother of two US-born teenagers, is one of thousands of immigrants who have long lived in a netherworld along the Texas border, tied to family members who are citizens but trapped in an unusual part of the country where, without legal immigration documents, it is all but impossible for them to stray far from their adopted hometowns.
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