Then, as now, many families – and tribal people such as the Tohono O’odham made regular trips to see brothers and sisters who lived on the other side of what was a barely defined and almost entirely invisible ‘frontera’.
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Mexicans risk life and limb to escape grinding poverty
Two hundred years ago crossing the border into Mexico from the United States or Central America was a simple matter.
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