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The Supreme Court and refugees at the southern border: 5 questions answered

  • Written by Karla Mari McKanders, Clinical Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

I sat in a small room in Tijuana, Mexico with a 13-year-old indigenous Mayan Guatemalan girl.

She left Guatemala after a cartel murdered her friend and threatened to rape her. Her mother wanted her to live and believed the only way for her to survive was to send her daughter alone to the U.S., to apply for asylum.

Now she was alone and stuck in...

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