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Bringing the border closer to home, one immersion trip at a time

  • Written by Gary John Adler Jr, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
Bringing the border closer to home, one immersion trip at a timeMigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, in March 2019.AP Photo/Eric Gay

Many if not most Americans have never crossed the U.S. border with Mexico by land or spent any time in that region.

This unfamiliarity can make it easy for politicians to distort what’s going on there and hard for immigration advocates and socialmov...

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