The decision to move the USS Texas — the last remaining World War I dreadnought battleship — to the Galveston Pier, was approved earlier this week by the Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees.

First of a two-part look at border life. Last year, Elmer—whose last name is withheld because he fears deportation—traveled alone by foot, truck, and bus from Colombia to the Mexico-Texas border.

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