[dropcap]E[/dropcap]L PASO, TEXAS — Rival political rallies in Texas – just over 200 yards apart – pitted the president of the United States against a possible election rival as they took opposite sides on the merits of a border wall with Mexico. “Today we started a big, beautiful wall right on the Rio Grande,” declared […]
2018 has been a chaotic year at the U.S.-Mexico border, where desperation collided with politics, and children bore the brunt of a debated threat – all of this in the shadow of the still unfunded border wall. The year did not begin with “a national emergency,” at the border, as Trump claimed or as his […]