Tomas Jimenez

Stanford University

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Assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University; author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

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More than 50,000 children, most alone and from Central America, have tried to cross the US-Mexican border since October.

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More than 50,000 children, most alone and from Central America, have tried to cross the US-Mexican border since October.

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