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Border Tales

Fiction stories about the Mexico, U.S. border.

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Unscripted Journey: Our Trek North

IMAGE: Some of us with our mother in a photo taken for a local crossing permit. Circa 1950s. There were no triple walls then, in 1962, the year we crossed the border between Mexicali and Calexico in our way to a place that promised us a better future. Triple walls are abundant now in myriad spots along the geopolitical line that defines where Mexico begins and the United States ends. And vice versa. There was…
Pedro Chavez
March 29, 2020
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You’re No Tex-Mex

NOTE: I wrote this story back in 2006. It's all fiction, except for Fuel City. They have good tacos there. Just like back home. IMAGES borrowed from the Fuel City website.   The middle-aged man had only been in Dallas for a couple of weeks, but had already been longing for the Mexico City type tacos he was used to buying at the place where he last lived. After inquiring with a few folks that…
Pedro Chavez
December 8, 2015
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Food for Thought: The Guard at the Border

NOTE: Wrote this fictionalized story in May 2006, as part of Border Tales, a crazy idea I had then about making fun of some news items. It’s all fiction, written just for fun. (PHOTO: U.S. Mexico border area at Big Bend National Park, looking south from the Texas side. Getty Images).   The tall man was wearing a camouflaged uniform, similar to those worn by American soldiers in Iraq. He was carrying what looked like…
Pedro Chavez
November 23, 2015
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Workers Needed at DiGiorgio Farms

NOTE: This is part of the Border Tales series fiction stories. It was written in jest in May 2006, the year of the last real attempt by Congress to reform the nation's immigration laws. Just trying to make a point and have fun at the same time. It was never published before. Image of Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego.   The President hated the idea of meeting with Frank DiGiorgio at the Hotel Del, but…
Pedro Chavez
November 20, 2015