El Paso Quotes

“Without knowing El Paso, we do not know our nation. We do not understand that there is no invasion of Texas or of the United States by Mexicans, Hispanics, or "others." Mexican and Mexican American culture and history have always been a part of who we are as Americans because the United States was formed on land that was Native before it was Spanish, and Spanish before it was Mexican, and Mexican before it was American.”
― Jazmine Ulloa, El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

“More recent statistics have shown that crime in the United States has dropped while illegal immigration has increased.”
― Jazmine Ulloa, El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

“The land. If Chihuahua had made fertile ground for blood and war, it was because it was born of it and now filled with Mexicanos who had lost their land but who had also taken it. And in this, too, was El Paso’s story.”
― Jazmine Ulloa, El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

“El Paso had been Native before it was Mexican—before it had ever become American, its origins tracing those of our very nation”
― Jazmine Ulloa, El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory