DANIEL HICKEY

SPECIAL SERIES — IMMIGRATION

The United States shares 1,954 miles of border with Mexico, 1,254 of which are along the Rio Grande. In this special multimedia feature, Texas Monthly explores the issue of immigration. Listen to what Texans from all walks of life have to say about how immigration affects them, browse articles on the issue of immigration, listen to audio snapshots from our November roundtable, and join the discussion in the dedicated forum.

FEATURED

DANIEL HICKEY: Hickey is an agent at the Weslaco Border Patrol station, which oversees forty miles along the Rio Grande.

VOICES

WENDY WARREN, 49
U.S. history teacher

MARTIN CUELLAR, 51
Sheriff

ADRYANA BOYNE, 45
National director of VOCES Action

MARK DAVIS, 52
Talk radio host

TIM O’HARE, 41
Mayor

ROGELIO NÚÑEZ, 58
Executive director of a nonprofit

J CARNES, 35
Grower

THE REVEREND JOHN W. BOWIE, 71
Pastor

UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT X, 48
Assistant cook

ELOISA TAMEZ, 75
Associate professor of nursing

Roundtable

Listen to excerpts from “The Immigration Dinner Party,” where two Republicans, two Democrats, and a couple of experts broke bread, swapped ideas, and sometimes traded punches over the hottest debate going. Produced with KUT-FM 90.5 in Austin, Texas

RAFAEL ANCHÍA is a three-term Democratic state representative from West Dallas. He is an attorney specializing in public and corporate finance with the law firm of Haynes and Boone.

LEO BERMAN is a six-term Republican state representative from Tyler. He is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel.

RICHARD LAND has, since 1988, been the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is from Houston.

STEVE MURDOCK is the former director of the U.S. Census Bureau and the former state demographer of Texas. He is a professor of sociology at Rice University.

DEBBIE RIDDLE is a four-term Republican state representative from North Harris County. She is a horse breeder.

LETICIA VAN DE PUTTE is five-term Democratic state senator from San Antonio and the former president of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators. She is a pharmacist.

Border Views

As Americans continue to debate immigration reform, border enforcement, and Arizona’s recent legislation, experts from the University of Texas at Austin are offering their views on these issues through a series of videos featured on the university’s Know website.

The Border Views series showcases faculty members discussing topics such as the history of illegal immigration, the unusual political alliances that have developed around this debate, and the media’s role in covering it.

CECILIA BALLÍ
Anthropology professor and journalist

RICARDO AINSLIE
Professor of educational psychology

VERONICA VARGAS STIDVENT
Director of the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs

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