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u.s.-Mexico Border: Border and Region

u.s.-mexico border: This is not acceptable, according to The Chronicle Herald. It cannot continue, he said. Sessions ticked off stories about smugglers being caught with opioids and cocaine at the U.S.-Mexico border and legal loopholes that have encouraged more immigrants to make the journey. No one can defend the way the system is working today. They chanted in Spanish, saying the region is not a war zone, and hoisted signs that protested the proposed border wall and the deployment of National Guard troops to the region. Outside the meeting, dozens of immigrant rights activists protested, once again rejecting Sessions' previous characterization of the border region as ground zero in the Trump administration's fight against cartels and human traffickers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.