Bobby Byrd says El Paso is a desert city rooted like a thicket of salt cedar, cottonwoods and mesquite on the banks of the Rio Grande. The Mexicans call it the Rio Bravo. This shallow ribbon of muddy water becomes, within the city limits of El Paso, the border between Mexico and the United States. On the other side is Ju rez in the state of Chihuahua. Many different people, whether they like it or not, have to come through El Paso. That's what...
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