The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas spoke out against the Trump administration’s Big Bend area border wall plans this week while campaigning in West Texas, calling the wall a "monument to corruption.”

Hueco Tanks, east of El Paso, will always inspire wonder. Its red volcanic mountains create a desert oasis. And the prehistoric imagery painted on its cliffs and cave walls is deeply evocative.

A recent lawsuit claims border agencies violated the federal Rivers and Harbors Act as part of the Trump administration’s plan for a border wall through the Big Bend region. The Department of Homeland Security responded by waiving that law, so it doesn’t have to follow it.

Órale, last week we featured the Caló word for drive, arrear. This week we’re gonna continue with a different nuance of it, arre, which means move out of the way, get away from me, or simply stop engaging with me. It comes from the same old Castillian word for mule team driver, arrero, but it’s what arreros would say to their mules to drive them through a muddy creek crossing, up a steep hill, or for the last stretch of a long haul, arre. Indeed, it’s not a polite request. It’s a sura, pugilistic sound you blurt out to dominate and offend somebody and, with that, move them away from you. Arre at once calls someone a mule and gatcho de amadres commands them to move.