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U.S.-Mexico Border
August 24, 2023
Aina Marzia
Their School Days Start With Customs Officers—and Searing Heat
For the thousands of kids who cross the U.S.-Mexico border each day for school, hotter days are making a fraught experience more uncomfortable—and dangerous.
September 14, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Republicans Are Spreading a Bogus “Rainbow Fentanyl” Panic Ahead of the Midterms
The GOP is ramping up its rhetoric about Biden, the border, kids, and overdoses.
October 12, 2021
Miriam Pensack
For Haitians, the Border Crisis Doesn’t Stop With Del Rio
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, humanitarian groups grapple with policies that keep asylum-seekers out.
February 26, 2021
Hilary Beaumont
The Ghoulish, Bipartisan Tradition of Death at the Southern Border
Biden has an opportunity to break the cycle of deadly border militarization embraced by his predecessors of both parties. Will he take it?
October 12, 2020
Harel Shapira
The All-American Mind of a Militia Member
I’ve spent years with men like the ones charged in a Michigan plot to kidnap the governor. They aren’t outsiders—they’re intimate products of American democracy.
April 1, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Crackdown Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Is Causing More Migrants to Die
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