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White House Paints Crisis at Border, Considers Declaring National Emergency

By Patsy Widakuswara | VOA on Jan 8, 2019 Featured, National, National/World, Politics

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing hard to portray the southern border with Mexico as an imminent “humanitarian and national security crisis” to win support for border wall funding in a fight with lawmakers that has brought the country to an 18-day partial government shutdown. Trump is set to make that case […]

The US-Mexico Border: A Dangerous Place With or Without a Wall

By Ramon Taylor | VOA on Jan 26, 2017 Featured, National

SAN YSIDRO, CALIFORNIA — When retired Lieutenant Sean Murphy patrolled the dry brush California hills outside San Ysidro, on the north side of the U.S.-Mexico border, there was no towering wall. The “barrier” that existed barely cast a shadow. “It was a wooden post here, and a wooden post there, and some barbed wire,” Murphy said. […]