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First the Fence, Then the System
The border fence, Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
More and more children from Central America are entering the US illegally and alone. What happens when they're caught?
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Issue: Summer 2013 / Volume 89/3
Published: December 13, 2013
Lauren Markham is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (Crown, 2017). Based in Berkeley, California, her work has appeared in Harper’s, Freeman’s, the Guardian, Guernica, California Sunday, the New York Times, the New York Review of...
Scott Dalton has spent years working throughout Latin America, including a decade in Colombia, where he photographed the civil conflict and drug war. His award-winning documentary, La Sierra (2005), has been broadcast on PBS, BBC, and HBO Latino, and his photography has appeared in the New York Times, National...