The border back-and-forth

Fresh from a weekend home at the border, where I usually hang out with my younger sister and her binational friends and coworkers, I'm awash in news and notes that remind of how porous that line remains. The L.A. Times checks in on the persistent problem of unplugged transnational narco tunnels. NPR on new Guatemalan fears of deportation. And high-level cartel operatives are charged in federal court in downtown San Diego. Along the way, I stumbled again on this photography exhibit by Dulce Pinzon on New York City's "real superheroes" -- working Mexican immigrants. The show consists of portraits of costumed people like the Chapulin seen above, and like Ernesto Mendez, a Mexico City native who works as a Times Square prostitute in order to send home $200 a week in remittance money.