But because it’s on the border with Mexico, the Cavazos family could lose their property – to Donald Trump’s border wall. Construction seems inevitable: financing for the portion of the president’s much-awaited border wall that would pass through the Cavazos’ property in the Rio Grande valley was approved by Congress in March 2018. Trump offers concessions on immigrants in return for wall fundsIt is separate from the wider debate about border wall funding that has roiled Washington for weeks, sparked a showdown between Trump and Democratic lawmakers, and led to the longest government shutdown in American history. Fred Cavazos runs his hand over the maps attached to each official document in the pile. His parish rents land from the Cavazos family for summer camps.

Source: The Express Tribune January 21, 2019 06:00 UTC