The big small town holding the borderline

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“It would go right about … there.”

Joaquin Peña nods under a straw hat, motioning to a piece of pipe sticking out of his land roughly 100 feet from the banks of the Rio Grande. Leggy sunflowers bob in the wind against a mountainous backdrop that resembles an old Western movie set. Two dogs named after characters from “The Sopranos” sprint ahead, tumbling over irrigation pipes that line Peña’s alfalfa fields in Redford, Texas.

“That is, if they do what they say they’re going to do,” Peña tells Atmos…

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