Alfredo Corchado

Arizona State University

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Co-director of the Borderlands Program at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and author of Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Descent into Darkness; former Mexico Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News

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President Trump today condemned this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The shootings took the lives of more than two dozen people in 13 hours.

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