Mass migration has millions of people looking for safe harbor and opportunity inside the United States.

But, decades-old immigration laws, a porous southern border, and increasingly daring cartels have caused humanitarian and illicit drug crises to grow.

The problems that the borderlands have known for years are now rippling through the United States, with cities forced to make difficult decisions as they look to the federal government for help.
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