EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Author, New York Times reporter and El Paso Native Jazmine Ulloa visited her old high school, hoping to inspire a new generation of writers with her new book, which tells the history of immigration in the Borderland.
As part of the El Paso Independent School District’s new initiative, “It Starts with a Book,” Burges High School in East El Paso hosted Ulloa, who spoke to students about her non-fiction book and her professional journey, crediting Burges for her career.
The book is titled “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory.”
In it, Ulloa tells the history of the Borderland through the stories of five families who migrated to the U.S. through El Paso in the last 100 years– history that Ulloa said is essential to understanding today’s national debates over immigration and identity…