The situation at the US-Mexico border is a crisis – but is it new?
- Written by Randi Mandelbaum, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers University
U.S. Border Patrol detains tens of thousands of the families and children who try to cross U.S. borders every year.AP Photo/Julio CortezThe media create the impression that there is an unprecedented crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, with droves of children arriving alone, as well as families flooding to the border.
There is a crisis.
But as a law...
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