This Texas family supports the Border Patrol — but could lose land to Trump's wall
DOLORES, Texas - It's tough for Mauricio Vidaurri to imagine a U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting off access to scores of graves at the ranch his family has owned since 1750.
His father, a rancher and Marine who received a Purple Heart after being wounded at Iwo Jima during World War II, is among more than 110 relatives buried in the cemetery near the Rio Grande.
Vidaurri and his two brothers served in the military too, then worked a variety of jobs for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Vidaurri retired in May, but a younger relative still works for the agency.
Now the family's 1,300-acre property in rural Dolores is vulnerable to a Trump administration plan to build 500 miles of new border wall by the
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