On the Border, Living in the Shadow of Separated Families

As VOA approached the 77,000-square-foot detention center from one side, three young cousins trekking on a dirt side road stopped. “Yep, that’s Ursula,” said Ramon Montoya through the driver’s window of a red pickup, referring to the detention center, a sterile dirty-white box with burgundy trim that stands a few kilometers north of Mexico. Locally, the center is called by the name of the street it’s on, Ursula. The Kansas-born son of Mexican-native parents and meat industry workers,...

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