El Paso Residents Say “Border Crisis” Is Manufactured, Reject Militarization

El Paso, Texas, has increasingly become the subject of an intense national conversation. The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal report that migrant surges are straining the city, the country and the economy. These are just three headlines from a barrage of coverage of the “crisis” at the border. Nastassia Artalejo, an El Paso resident whose family has lived in the city for…

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