This story first appeared on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with KTEP News. Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener, and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border.
EL PASO — Border Patrol agents showed up at a quiet home on a fall morning just after dawn, looking for undocumented immigrants. They said they had surveilled the house for days.
Instead, an agent shot and killed the family dog…