colonias in Hidalgo County. Colonia is used as another word for “neighborhood” in Mexico, but it’s also the term used to identify “” U.S.
subdivisions at the seam where America and Mexico meet. Over 2,000 colonias sit in Texas, but the areas also exist in California, New Mexico, and Arizona.
About 1.6 million people live in them.Ramona Casas stands in front of the U.S./Mexico border wall after leading Border Witness Program participants to the site.Many of the women who work at ARISE are U.S.
citizens. They pay their taxes like the rest of us, but they reside in a part of the country that often lacks basic resources most Americans don’t think about, like street lights, paved roads, safe housing, and waste disposal.