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This episode is about how a place learns to remember itself.
Journalist Bob Moore has spent nearly four decades reporting from El Paso, witnessing the border's evolution through policy shifts, political cycles, tragedy, and resilience. In conversation with host Mario Carrillo, he reflects on what it means to tell the story of a border city over time, not as a headline, but as a lived reality.
The discussion moves from El Paso in the 1980s, when crossing was fluid and routine, through the rise of border enforcement, post-9/11 security, family separation, and the ways national immigration debates have repeatedly landed on local communities. Moore speaks candidly about the role of local journalism, the responsibility of reporting on your own neighbors, carrying grief, and staying after the cameras leave.
August 3, 2019, is part of this story. The conversation places that day within a longer arc, one shaped by language, fear, political power, and the quiet work of people who insist on documenting what really happened and why it matters.
This episode examines El Paso not as a symbol but as a city: complex, welcoming, strained, resilient. A place that refuses to be reduced.
Caution: This episode includes discussion of mass violence, hate crimes, and immigration-related trauma. No graphic details are described.
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