U.S. citizen's detention is a reminder that mixed-status families can feel trapped along the border
EDINBURG -- Francisco Erwin Galicia settles into the light brown wrap-around couch that takes up a corner of his family's modest trailer home. A portable fluorescent light shines on his face.
“Where were you born?” the TV reporter asks.
“In Dallas,” the 18-year-old U.S. citizen replies in Spanish with a slight chuckle and a grin.
Since July 22, when The Dallas Morning News first reported that Galicia was detained for 23 days in a U.S. Border Patrol holding facility, he's told this story over and over, recounting conditions that he says were so poor he almost agreed to be deported by his own government.
But things have started to slow down. Fewer reporters are coming by for interviews.
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