Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de León, Consul General of Mexico in El Paso, discusses the "Maletas Migrantes" exhibit which recently opened at the MACC in El Paso, and changes he's seen in his 6 years of service. Here's a portion of their conversation which aired on KRWG Public Media on August 4:

KC Counts:

How long have you served in that role?

Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de León:

Actually I have been here for six years.

KC Counts:

And in that time, how have you seen things change along the way from your perspective?

Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de León:

Actually, it has been a lot of change in in several ways. Because I got here two months before the Walmart shooting, for example. So we have to go through the shooting, then the pandemic, the issues with the high immigration flow. So it has been a ver

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