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Is there a crisis at the US-Mexico border? 6 essential reads

  • Written by Catesby Holmes, Global Affairs Editor, The Conversation US

For three years, first as a presidential candidate, then as president of the United States, Donald Trump has insisted that the country must stem immigration by building a wall along its southern border – an expensive gambit that few Americans support and that Democratic lawmakers virulently oppose. He even shut down the federal government...

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