Columns, Opinions
With liberty and justice for all
Being told to return to my country of origin was a mind-numbing, soul-crushing experience when it happened to me, a second-generation American citizen, many moons ago.
It occurred when I – and others who made up the Marching UTEP Miner Band, many of whom were Latino – entered University Stadium in Albuquerque, NM. It didn’t take long for a group of opposing fans, the majority of whom were white, to start flinging slurs our way. Some said for us to show them our papers or green...