Reporter’s Notebook: The Border Creates Tragedy by Design

The border, its dread and its promise: a photo essay from Nogales, Sonora, on the day after the tragedy in San Antonio.

It didn’t take Texas governor Greg Abbott long to blame President Joe Biden for the deaths of 51 people left in the back of a sweltering tractor trailer. He tweeted that the deaths resulted from Biden’s “deadly open border policies,” and that they show the “deadly consequences of [Biden’s] refusal to enforce the law.”