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Border Tales Columns

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 ChavezNovember 23, 2015

Border Tales Columns

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 ChavezNovember 20, 2015

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Lo que mi Tierra Cachanilla me Regaló

Uno no escoge en qué rincón del mundo uno nace, porque uno no es partícipe en esa decisión. Todo es cuestión de suerte. Yo podría haber nacido en China o en algún país del África. O a la mejor en uno de esos lugares del primer mundo donde uno llega con el plato ya servido, como en los Estados Unidos o en Alemania o en otro país europeo, en esos lugares de ensueño, a los…

Pedro ChavezOctober 12, 2015