The US-Mexico Border Increasingly Sees Refugees From Other Parts of the World


I was JUST talking about refugees last Thursday, but this has been in the news a while.  Here's the latest:

Hoping for Asylum, Migrants Strain U.S. Border

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html?_r=0







And here is a link to a recent series on the US-Mexico Border from National Public Radio
(I highly recommend the whole series, but especially the story about refugees, found here). 


Dob Cunningham (right) and his friend Larry Johnson stand on the edge of Cunningham's 800-acre ranch in Quemado, Texas, which touches the Rio Grande. On the other side, Mexico.
http://www.npr.org/series/291397809/borderland-dispatches-from-the-u-s-mexico-boundary




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