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AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors: Beto O'Rourke

By Brian Winter

The U.S. congressman from El Paso who is trying to sell Washington on what the border is really like.

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With a name like that, Beto O’Rourke’s story kind of tells itself.

Born “Robert” in El Paso, he, like most of the 2.7 million people in the greater El Paso-Ciudad Juárez area, spent his youth hopscotching between both cities. Friends’ birthday parties were in Mexico. So was his first date...

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