Thanks to David Jackson for sending in this article.
About a half-million people call an estimated 2,000 poor and isolated "colonias" home. The sparse communities dot the landscape of south Texas, along the more-than-1,000 miles the state's border shares with Mexico.
A staggering 100,000 of the residents -- mostly all U.S. citizens -- are children.
Maria Castro, 12, is among them and lives in a small house that her father built with her mother, nine of her sisters and brothers, and two cousins. READ MORE
About a half-million people call an estimated 2,000 poor and isolated "colonias" home. The sparse communities dot the landscape of south Texas, along the more-than-1,000 miles the state's border shares with Mexico.A staggering 100,000 of the residents -- mostly all U.S. citizens -- are children.
Maria Castro, 12, is among them and lives in a small house that her father built with her mother, nine of her sisters and brothers, and two cousins. READ MORE
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