From filth to beauty in a border town

Forbes
Near the Mexican border, immigrant shantytowns were poverty-stricken places that became filthy, stinking, disease-ridden expanses awash in mud and sewage whenever it rained heavily. Lynn Brezosky writes “Las Milpas' transformation into a proud, largely well-tended community of more than 17,000 is an immigrant success story. As the many illegal immigrants of Las Milpas became U.S. citizens, they used the power of the ballot box to prod the state and federal governments to relieve their misery.”