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Good Neighbors

South Texas is dotted with pockets of poor, unincorporated neighborhoods near the Mexican border known as colonias. Their residents, mostly Latinos, live in poverty and isolation, lacking good medical care, decent housing, and even utilities such as water and sewage treatment.

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