As the USA’s 250th anniversary approaches, we look at one family’s experience on the historically changing U.S.-Mexican border.
The border's journey to its current location is the story of a nation that swallowed up Native American tribes, Spanish descendants and Mexican citizens in its hunger to grow.
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