“Mexico is two blocks that way,” says the taxi driver as we pull up in front of Hotel Paso Del Norte in El Paso, Texas. I gaze down a street decorated with sparkling Christmas lights and see a bridge crossing the Rio Grande in the distance. One side of the river is Texas and the other side is Mexico. During the 1914 Mexican Revolution, hotel guests stood on the rooftop terrace at Hotel Paso Del Norte and watched the battle rage between revolutionaries and the Mexican army, knowing they were safe on American soil. El Paso and this entire region of west Texas isn’t like any other place in Texas or America for that matter. About 80 per cent of the city’s residents are of Latino heritage and this is one of the places where Donald Trump erected The Wall, even though most of the people who live here didn’t want it.
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