Alfredo Corchado

U.S.-Mexico border correspondent, The Dallas Morning News

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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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Dozens of people died in a fire at a migrant detention facility in Mexico. President López Obrador says migrants started it, but many details remain unclear.

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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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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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A transcript of a phone call between President Trump and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto reveals Trump being willing to cut off relations if Pena Nieto kept saying Mexico…

Trump's unpredictability shown in transcript of call with Mexican president

A transcript of a phone call between President Trump and his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto reveals Trump being willing to cut off relations if Pena Nieto kept saying Mexico…

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