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Trump and the Border Crisis
Explaining the Indefensible

It is difficult to resist the temptation to rant against the ineptness and mean-spiritedness of the Trump Administration’s recent border apprehension policies. Yet the moral and ethical obtuseness on display is the product of a long and complex history.

Appeared in: Volume 14, Number 2 | Published on: July 30, 2018
Peter Skerry is professor of political science at Boston College.
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