Foreign correspondent for the New York Times, based in Mexico City; in June 2014 he completed his project The Way North with New York Times photographer Todd Heisler, a 37 day road trip from the US border in Texas to Duluth, Minnesota, where he chronicled how the middle of America is being changed by immigration
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