By Texas Tribune, El Paso Matters By Uriel J. García, Colleen DeGuzman, Alex Nguyen, Carla Astudillo and Nicholas Gutteridge / The Texas Tribune On the evening of July 1, Luis Medrano called Houston police for help after his wife had gotten violent and punched him twice in the face during a schizophrenic episode in which she was hearing tormenting voices, according to a police report. 

Medrano, 50, a Mexican immigrant who met his wife when they crossed the Rio Grande with a group of about a dozen other migrants more than three decades ago, had tried to take his 47-year-old wife to the hospital, but she refused to go. So he did what he’d done three times before: called the police so they would take her to a hospital. But this time, the officer arrested her on suspicion of assault and booke

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