Marcia Brown

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  • Jun 4, 2021
    MATAMOROS, MEXICO – At its height, more than 3,000 asylum seekers lived in the tent city in Matamoros, on the shores of the Rio Grande—a stone’s throw from another...
  • Mar 25, 2021
    The scene starts out serenely, as CNN national correspondent Ed Lavandera and crew motor by boat down the Rio Grande near the city of Hidalgo, Texas, as the sun sets. But soon, the...
  • Mar 18, 2021
    In March 2020, as the pandemic raged around the world, America closed its doors. The Trump administration used a 1940s public-health ordinance to turn away virtually all immigrants,...
  • Mar 4, 2021
    In 2008, Barack Obama became the first major candidate to opt out of the public-financing system set up to fund presidential campaigns, gambling that he would be able to raise more...
  • Feb 25, 2021
    In his first-week blitz of executive actions, Joe Biden directed the Justice Department to not renew federal contracts with the private prison industry. “[W]e must reduce...
  • Feb 3, 2021
    Last week, the stock market had its worst week since October, but if you had GameStop stock, you were feeling pretty good. It grew 400 percent, fueled by the Reddit page...