So people are now just coming back to the gazebo.

But very unsanitary conditions for the longest time.

The gentle humming you're hearing are generators.

But that's how people charge their phones and cook now.

They have to get one of the generators.

And that was done by the mayor so people would leave.

Felicia Rangel Sanponado is one of the few American volunteers who cross into Mexico to help in the migrant camps there.

She's someone that the American media usually doesn't associate with Latino immigrant rights. I identify as a black woman, even though I'm part next to me.

I'm Gustavo Ariano. You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times. It's Friday,

January 21st, 2022.

Thank you. It's Friday, January 21st, 2022. Felicia Rangel Sanponado lives in Brownsville, right on the southernmost tip of Texas.

She confounds both Mexican and American border officials by just being.

She's an Afro-Latina, a daughter of a black mother and a Mexican-American father.

Her biracial background helps when it comes to the work Felicia is doing with migrants at the border.

But it also causes her problems.

Felicia let L.A. Times Houston bureau Bureau Chief Molly Hennessy Fisk follow her around for a day, as she helped both black and Latino

migrants and Afro-Latino migrants, of course. Many of them were asylum seekers from Central America

and Haiti stuck in migrant camps at the border in Renoosa, Mexico, which is just across the border from

Idaalgo, Texas.

Molly, welcome to the Times.

Thanks for having me.

So the first time you met Felicia Rangel-Samponado, where were you and what was she doing?

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