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A night enforcing immigration laws on the US-Mexico border

  • Written by Robert Lee Maril, Professor of sociology, East Carolina University

Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, the U.S.-Mexico border has been a focus of Donald Trump’s anger and political appeal.

That border is where more than 18,500 of the country’s 19,437 Border Patrol agents work, trying to stop people from crossing illegally into the U.S.

For all the heat and headlines around this border,...

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