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A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe

The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin.

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For a Border Tribe, Trump’s Wall Is a Betrayal: ‘They Want to Erase Us’

An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States.

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In Building His Border Wall, Trump May Bring Down a 110-Year-Old Church

A century ago, Mexican American families came together to build an adobe church near the border in West Texas. Can its bell toll again as the wall expansion nears?

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Migrant Crisis Reveals Vast Differences Between Ceuta and Its Moroccan Neighbor

Ceuta, Spain, and Fnideq, Morocco, are physically separated by only a mile, but they are intertwined by family and trade. A recent border crisis is the latest chapter in their story.

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