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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Mar 14, 2019
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Late last year, while the caravan was still making headlines, my mother and I watched as a Mexican journalist interviewed a Latin American migrant. When asked why she was headed to the United States, she replied matter-of-factly, “Porque necesito pañales.” That is, “because I need diapers.”

At a time when America has been mistaken for the world’s diaper-…

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