Robie Flores couldn’t get out of Eagle Pass fast enough. Growing up in the border town as the only girl in between her older brother, Paco, and her younger twin brothers, Marcelo and Alejandro, she felt frustrated by the boredom and wanted to escape the confusion of a place that made her feel like she wasn’t American or Mexican enough. “I actually always told people when I went to college, [that] I’m from San Antonio, because it’s the closest notable city,” Robie recalls.When she graduated from high school, Robie left Eagle Pass for wider pastures and a chance to reinvent herself. She earned a master’s degree in news and documentary journalism from New York University and worked for CNN and Bloomberg. Then, in July 2015,…
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