Migrant Labor Made America Great — History Behind the US-Mexico Border Crisis

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The Millennial Source
16 min readAug 21, 2019

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The suffering of children at US Border Patrol detention facilities has understandably drawn intense media attention worldwide. Yet the plight of detained adults is equally troubling, and reveals much about the root causes of the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border.

Recently, US Vice President Mike Pence visited detention facilities in the border town of McAllen, Texas. He encountered men crowded into…

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