Remember Esequiel Hernandez!

The last time the U.S. military posted troops on the border near this tiny cluster of farms and ranches, an 18-year-old goat herder was shot to death. Hardly a day passes that Esequiel Hernandez Jr.’s family and neighbors don’t think of May 20, 1997, the day a U.S. Marine corporal shot and killed him. And now a rumored presidential proposal to deploy National Guard troops along the Mexican border has his younger sister, Rebecca Hernandez, worried that other border residents or even her nephews, who tend goats along the same rugged desert where her brother was killed, could be the next victims.  Click here for the full story.

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KJ