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On the recordApril 12, 2016
What is it about their lives that compels them to try to get here--to risk life and limb to make that 1,500-mile trip to the U.S.-Mexican border to get in.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the motivations behind migration from Central America.

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