25 years after Marine killed his brother, Texas lawman assesses border fight

“The governor and his people are now looking at using words like ‘invasion,’ and increasing the militarization of the border with guardsmen,” said Hernandez, 53, a mild-mannered man, who leads a four-member police force.

“The death of Esequiel was a pretty traumatic event for the kids, for Presidio and Redford community because of what happened and how it happened,” said Presidio Mayor John Ferguson, a longtime music teacher at the local high school where Esequiel was his student and played tuba. “But I should also note that the anger in the community eventually subsided. We moved on.

“We want to make it appealing for people to come visit,” said Ferguson, who grew up in Garland and has called the border home for more than 35 years. “But when people ask, ‘Oh should I really come visit? I hear it’s unsafe.’ God knows how many people decided not to come our way. That hurts us.”For the Hernandez family, friends and classmates of Esequiel, May 20,1997, remains a dark day.

“The clouds just moved in and everything darkened,” Hernandez said. “It was fixin’ to rain, and you could feel every drop of rain, fallin’ hard.” His mother, Lucia Madrid, was an educator who loved reading and had started her own library. She tutored young students on both sides of the border, including Esequiel and his sister.

Esequiel was the sixth of eight children of Maria de la Luz and Esequiel Hernandez Sr., both from Mexico. Esequiel Sr. farmed a small tract of land in an area known asliterally “dust” in Spanish, named after a Catholic mission, San Jose Del Polvo, or St. Joseph of the Dust, established in 1684. The town stands high in the desert, on the way to Big Bend National Park. On its red fertile soil bloomed melons, watermelons, onions, pumpkins and chile.

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