Chertoff Forum Misses the Point: Public Service is About the Public
by Cynthia Martinez on February 25, 2008 in Opinion
I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley border cities of McAllen and Edinburg, Texas. When I was a child, my parents would take me across the border into Mexico every weekend. I pride myself on being from a border town as much as I pride myself on being a Texan.
So when I saw that the HKS Forum would feature Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, I tuned in from my office in Austin, expecting him to discuss the construction of a wall along the border to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the country. Read more
