« The county judge, Veronica Escobar, had grown wearily accustomed to the assumptions made in other parts of the country. “One of the first questions people frequently ask is, Will I be safe?” she told me. “You can tell people that deportations are up and that in-migration is down from Mexico. You can tell people that the border has never been safer. You can provide people with as many statistics as possible — and it doesn’t make a difference.” »
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/magazine/an-american-in-a-strange-land.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referer