The helicopter thump-thumped above downtown El Paso as we passed over the concrete ditch through which the Rio Grande flows, dividing El Paso from the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. PhotoI had gone to El Paso often as a national correspondent for The Times, and I always liked the atmosphere there. Even some of her own relatives, people who had moved away from El Paso, have posted pro-Trump, anti-immigrant messages on Facebook. As he prayed for migrants at the border’s edge, I stared through the fence into the United States. According to some recent estimates, there are now roughly as many guns as people in the United States, maybe even more.

Source: New York Times November 04, 2016 09:00 UTC