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When Joe Biden and Donald Trump came to Texas’ border with Mexico on the same day in February, they underscored how the region has become ground zero for one the most volatile subjects in American politics.

But neither candidate actually engaged with ordinary Texans. And our reporters, talking to residents in Eagle Pass and Brownsville, found that many Texans feel their voices are being drowned out by the political noise around immigration.

The Tribune is in a unique position to do something about that. Based in El Paso, our immigration reporter, Uriel J. García, has devoted the last three years to telling the story of what’s happening on the ground in Texas’ borderlands. He has visited migrant encampments across the Rio Grande, witnessed the security tactics of Border Patrol and the Texas National Guard, and tracked the construction of border walls ordered by …