By Sergio Troncoso
"I
am and always will be the proud son of Mexican immigrants from El Paso.
My parents came from Juárez, Chihuahua, to the United States in the
1950's, newlyweds with only a few dollars in their pockets. In the east
side neighborhood of Ysleta, they built an adobe house that at first had
no electricity and an outhouse in the backyard. Yes, in Texas. They
followed other Mexican immigrants who had been coming to the United
States for decades. They followed even some Mexicans who were already in
the state before Texas was ever Texas. These Tejanos didn't cross the
border; the border crossed them.
August
3 will always be one of the saddest days of my life. I love my hometown
of El Paso, Texas. Many times in a typical trip home, I have shopped at
Cielo Vista Mall and that Walmart where the mass shooting unfolded.
This mass murderer from Dallas (Plano, actually) knew nothing about how
great this community is and the values practiced by many there."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/opinions/el-paso-mexican-american-family-story-troncoso/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/opinions/el-paso-mexican-american-family-story-troncoso/index.html
