Juan in Laredo: Looking at the Rio Grande
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Juan and his family crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Texas four years ago. Now they live in a poor community just this side of the US-Mexican border.
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Juan and his family crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Texas four years ago. Now they live in a poor community just this side of the US-Mexican border.
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Review of Juan in Laredo: Looking at the Rio GrandeThis is a great slice-of-life piece about a young man's experience living
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Juan in El Cenizo, Texas: "Looking At The Rio Grande"
TEENAGE DIARIES
Produced by: Joe Richman
All Things Considered (NPR)
7/5/96
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: This is All Things Considered. I'm Linda Wertheimer.
NOAH ADAMS, Host: And I'm Noah Adams. Some of the poorest communities in the United States are the so-called "colonias" along the US border with Mexico. Most of the people who live there are Mexican immigrants. Juan is a 19 year old who lives in a colonia just outside Laredo, Texas. He and his family - 10 brothers and sisters, plus his mother and father - live in a small trailer home. Though his father is a legal resident of the US. Juan and the other members of his family are not. Four years ago they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the country illegally. Juan attended high school here, and this spring received his diploma.
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