Every morning, the shackle on Juan Chávez’s left foot reminds him that his freedom is limited to 120 kilometers away from his home in Weslaco, Texas. His son Juan Damien, four years old, looks at the device and tells him that he wants to have an equal one, because he wants to be like him. The father replies that it is not right to have one of those, which will soon be removed. When he tells it, the eyelashes are wet: “It makes me sad.” Since the…
Every morning, the shackle on Juan Chávez’s left foot reminds him that his freedom is limited to 120 kilometers away from his home in Weslaco, Texas. His son Juan Damien, four years old, looks at the device and tells him that he wants to have an equal one, because he wants to be like him. The father replies that it is not right to have one of those, which will soon be removed. When he tells it, the eyelashes are wet: “It makes me sad.” Since the…