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UTEP graduate grateful father was able to cross the border for commencement ceremony
Flor Urbina talks about how she is grateful her father, Angel, was able to attend her graduation ceremony because UTEP and CBP reached an agreement.
Mónica Ortiz Uribe, Omar Ornelas and Briana Sanchez Mónica Ortiz Uribe, Omar Ornelas and Briana Sanchez, El Paso Times
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Heriberto Pérez Lara sat on the bed in his home in Juárez, meticulously lacing his brown dress shoes. His mother, Anayensi Lara Ruíz, smoothed an ironed white button-down shirt on its hanger.
She grabbed his graduation cap and tassel off the bedspread.
“Apart from these, what else do you need to take with you?” she asked. His black gown hung downstairs in the living room, draped with the orange stole of the University of Texas at El Paso.
“That’s everything,” he said, looking up at the mother who raised him on her own.