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Today’s US-Mexico 'border crisis' in 6 charts

  • Written by Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
A Border Patrol agent in New Mexico.REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

The news today is full of dire pronouncements about the “crisis” at the Mexico-U.S. border. In reality, there is no crisis, at least as portrayed in the press and by the Trump administration.

Undocumented entries across the border are, in fact, at all-time lows. The mass...

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