Journalism

08/20/18

Newsweek Cover Story: Trump and the Border

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I spent a week along the Arizona border and points north, looking at how the administration's "border crisis" rhetoric is playing in a border state where two-thirds of the population is opposed to a border wall, and how Trump is affecting a critical U.S. Senate race, bending Republican moderates to his image in a state that likes its politicians "maverick." I also happened to be there as the family separations were starting to become nationally known. Here's what I found out.

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