For Texas immigrants, Harvey came at an already tense time

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - With Hurricane Harvey barreling toward his house in Corpus Christi and his family waiting it out in San Antonio, the young man's mother made a comment that will stick with him.

If there's nothing left when we get back to Corpus Christi, she said, we're going back to Mexico.

It caught 22-year-old Alain by surprise. He and his mother are living in the country illegally, but he is a student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and had been granted some protection from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. His family brought him to the U.S. when he was 8. His