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Kirk Siegler

GOP lawsuit halts most migration from Mexico. Yet, desperate people continue to cross

Along the US Mexico border near Nogales, Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway says national politicians stoke fears of a migrant "invasion" which never materialize. (Kirk Siegler/NPR)

Ever since he was a boy in the border city of Nogales, Ariz., Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway says people have been crossing over into America looking for a better life. Only recently, he says, has this become red meat for national politicians.

"Caravans staging in Mexico, they're heading this way and it's gonna be a mass invasion," he says, chuckling. "It's never materialized the way they describe it."

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