A Warm Reception North of the Border

By Shailagh Murray BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — After a prayer event nowadays with local evangelical leaders, Sen. Barack Obama made for the border. From Hope Park in downtown Brownsville, Obama looked across the Rio Grande into Mexico. He joked to reporters, “If you want to invent a break for it…,” as he strolled along a pathway, his purple tie flipped by his shoulder. Obama asked his companion, state representative Eddie Lucio III, about border controls and the mutual profitable dependency

of Brownsville and the sprawling community of Matamoros, across the worldly Bridge. (Lucio’s father, Eddie Lucio Jr., is the local state senator and is supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.) “This is in some ways, commercially at least, one big metropolitan area,” Obama observed. He said it was his first visit to the border, at least in Texas. “I’ve been in Mexico when I was in college and was going to school

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