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Topic: border crossings

Donald Trump; Jeffrey Epstein (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Palm Beach Sheriff's Office)

Sex traffic prosecutions tumble

Igor Derysh
President Donald Trump speaks to the nation in his first prime-time address from the Oval Office of the White House on January 8, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Sandy Huffaker)

Still more lies: Trump outdoes himself

Amanda Marcotte
Central American migrants are given food at The Rockhouse Cafe and Gallery after being dropped off in downtown El Paso by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Christmas day, December 25, 2018. (Getty/Paul Ratje)

Migrant families being dumped in cold

Igor Derysh
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is sworn in before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Nielsen blames "open borders"

Igor Derysh
U.S. Border Patrol agents take a father and son from Honduras into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border near Mission, Texas. (Getty/John Moore)

Trump's border policy turns lethal

Amanda Marcotte
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is sworn in before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Kirstjen Nielsen simply doesn't know

Igor Derysh
U.S. Border Patrol agents stand on the U.S. side of the border. (AP/Marco Ugarte)

Why "Abolish ICE" isn't enough

Amanda Marcotte
Kirstjen Nielsen; Immigrant children outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them. (AP/Susan Walsh/Wilfredo Lee)

DHS head blames dead girl's family

Igor Derysh
Three Honduran migrants huddle in the riverbank amid tear gas fired by U.S. agents on the Mexico-U.S. border after they and a group of migrants got past Mexican police at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 (AP/Ramon Espinosa)

Border violence: Trump's sick spectacle

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump; Mar-A-Lago (Getty/Gary Gershoff/Shutterstock)

Donald Trump's comedy Thanksgiving

Heather Digby Parton
In this Oct. 23, 2018 image, people seeking asylum in the United States line up to receive a number at the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The first obstacle that migrants in a giant caravan may face if they reach the U.S. border is a long wait in Mexico. To enter through San Diego, the wait in Mexico is a month or longer. (AP/Gregory Bull)

Trump's asylum ban: It's real

Kristie De Peña - Niskanen Center
A man rides his bicycle through a damaged road in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, on September 24, 2017 following the passage of Hurricane Maria. (Getty/Salon)

Trump's final midterms gambit

Heather Digby Parton
Immigrants walk into a building at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas on Aug. 9, 2018. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

80% surge in family arrests along border

Rachel Leah
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