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Getting to the Root of Border Violence Rhetoric

Melissa del Bosque, whose phenomenal reports for The Texas Observer are always worth reading, spent some quality time with a couple of cantankerous lawmen for her latest assignment, "Boots on the Ground: A Day in the Life of a Border Sheriff"....

by Danielle Maestretti

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