From Brownsville to Tijuana, new book seeks to paint a different picture of the border

A new book about the U.S.-Mexico border is seeking to give readers an intimate look at an area of the country that has long been displayed in national media as a region dominated by border wall, immigration crises and cartel violence. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University, and Sergio Chapa, a Houston-based freelance journalist, set out to traverse the entire 1,954 miles of the southern border, visiting communities on either side and documenting the entire experience in their new book, “Frontera: A Journey across the US-Mexico Border.” The...