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How Arizona's Southwest Border Situation Differs From The Crisis In Texas

The story of what’s happening on the U.S.-Mexico border is being painted with a single brush. We are being flooded with migrants, many of them young people — children — seeking asylum on their own. But Curt Prendergast looked at the data and found there’s more than one story here.

While that narrative might be true in the Rio Grande sector of the border in Texas, in Arizona, in the Tucson and Yuma sectors, things are different.

Curt Prendergast is an immigration reporter with the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, and The Show spoke with him to find out how things are looking at the border.

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Lauren Gilger, host of KJZZ's The Show, is an award-winning journalist whose work has impacted communities large and small, exposing injustices and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalized.