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Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Border Between Mexico and the United States

CNN's John Sutter traveled across the U.S.-Mexico border to get a look at how it looks now. He was with Cumi Island people who were in ceremony to honor their ancestors, whose burial sites have been and continue to be desecrated by wall construction. The logic of spending $25 million a mile is that people will be deterred from crossing by the harsh landscape brutally hot days and brutally cold nights,. This logic fails to consider not just where people are going, why they're leaving places they've come from.

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