Immigration Reality: Major Health Problems, Many Linked to Poverty, Plague Residents of Colonias

Second article in a series by the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization.

Major Health Problems, Many Linked to Poverty, Plague Residents of Colonias - NYTimes.com: "Along the 1,248-mile Texas-Mexico border, in communities with names like Agua Dulce and Mexico Chiquito, the overwhelmingly Hispanic residents of the colonias tell identical stories: of migrating with dreams of safety and prosperity, of getting swindled or misled into buying worthless land with no modern infrastructure, of sticking it out so their children — most of them American citizens — will get educated.

And of getting sick."