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These makeshift towns that offer little more than third-world conditions inside the U.S. are called “colonias.”
Houston Matters’ Paige Phelps set out to learn more about colonias and talked with Alexa Ura, a demographics reporter for the Texas Tribune, who recently co-authored a series on the colonias, and Jeronimo Cortina, assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston.
She began by asking Alexa Ura to further describe what a colonia is.
