HOUSTON – In the heart of Denver Harbor, a small bakery that’s been open for 55 years is fighting to stay alive. Owner Rene Porras, a Vietnam veteran, says fear of immigration raids has driven away the customers who once filled his tables.

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A family business with deep roots

Porras’ family opened the bakery in the late 1960s, when the neighborhood was beginning to change from Anglo to Mexican American. His father, a Navy veteran and migrant farmworker, started out running a body and paint shop on the same property. While Rene served in Vietnam, his mother began selling tacos and pan dulce through a small window.

“When I came home, my mom was selling tacos and bread out of a litt

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