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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How Tijuana became a 'city of exiles'

    Several hundred undocumented immigrants are deported to Tijuana every day. Border officers take them across the border and drop them off. They’re left to start a new life.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 8, 2018 • 1 min read

    Several hundred undocumented immigrants are deported to Tijuana every day. Border officers take them across the border and drop them off. They’re left to start a new life. They join a growing population of refugees who are trying to get into the United States. The result is that Tijuana is now teeming with people cut off from their families, communities, former lives.

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