'It’s a humanitarian crisis, a political crisis, a procedural crisis, a local government crisis and an international crisis,' said Theresa Cardinal Brown, an advisor with the Dallas-based George W. Bush Institute.
If the border fence divides two neighbors, a crisis on one side spells trouble for the other.
If given the chance, the president will see the humanitarian crisis among the people sleeping under Red Cross blankets outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. He will witness the political crisis in the concertina wire coiled at the edge of the Rio Grande by the Texas National Guard. And if brought to gaze over the border to Juárez, he will see the international crisis in the faces of migrants expelled by the U.S. as they look north, waiting.
."It’s the biggest city on the border. It’s isolated but it’s also a big urban hub in this ocean of desert."will keep more migrants from traveling the dangerous route to the border and ease the humanitarian crisis in U.S. border cities. It's all but certain the consequences of the plan will reveal themselves in El Paso in tangible, inescapable ways.
The Borderland is where the policies and proclamations hatched in far-flung national capitals become individual stories of survival, deception, desperation — and hope.El Paso and Juárez are the largest binational community on the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. The numbers represent a political tsunami even in a region accustomed to a century of human migration across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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